What happensPermalink
Moses is born. His mother sets him in a basket on the river, where Pharaoh’s daughter finds and raises him. When he grows up, Moses kills an Egyptian who was beating an Israelite. He flees to Midian, marries Zipporah, and has a son.
Why it mattersPermalink
All the people opposing Pharaoh are women: the Hebrew midwives, Moses’s mother and sister, and Pharaoh’s daughter. Moses’s miraculous upbringing foreshadows his miraculous deliverance of Israel from Egypt.
Key versePermalink
When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”