Pharaoh’s daughter came down to the river to bathe,
while her maids walked along the river bank.
Noticing the basket among the reeds, she sent her handmaid to fetch it.
On opening it, she looked, and lo, there was a baby boy, crying!
She was moved with pity for him and said,
“It is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
When the child grew, (the mother) brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter,
who adopted him as her son and called him Moses;
for she said, “I drew him out of the water.” (Exodus 2:1-15)
The story of Moses in the Bullrushes is the beginning of the great story of salvation and deliverance. And like all such stories, the beginning can be very simple yet universal, a mother trying to protect her child, trying to give her child a better tomorrow.
