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After
the Children of Israel had settled in Egypt, in the land of Goshen, a new King came into
power in Egypt.
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new King (Pharaoh) was worried that the children of Israel might not be loyal to him, so
he made the Children of Israel into slaves. That wasn't enough for him, and he still
worried about the loyalty of the people.
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Pharaoh
decided that if he had all the boy babies killed, there would be no leaders among the
Children of Israel. Since he was King and could do whatever he wanted, he ordered that any
boy baby born to one of the Children of Israel had to be killed immediately. |
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| Moshe's
Mother couldn't bear to see her child killed, even though she already had two children.
She hid her baby for as long as she could and then she put him in a little waterproof
basket hoping that he would float to a nicer place and be adopted by some people who
wouldn't hate him. |
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As
the baby was floating down the Nile River, the daughter of the Pharaoh was in the water,
and she saw the basket and decided that the gods had sent her this child. She picked him
out of the water and gave him the name Moshe. She brought him to the palace and raised him
as a prince. Moshe's sister, Miriam , stood by and
offered to find a wet nurse for the Princess. The wet nurse was Moshe's mother
Yocheved. |
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| One day the young Prince Moshe was out walking when he saw an Egyptian
overseer beating one of the Children of Israel. He grabbed the whip and beat the overseer.
The overseer died and Moshe buried him. |
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| The next day When Moshe was out again he heard two of the Children of
Israel fighting, and when he came close one of them asked if Moshe was going to kill him
too, like he had killed the Egyptian the day before. |
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| Moshe ran away from Egypt since he figured that soon everybody would know
and they would come to arrest him. |
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