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A Levite woman gives birth to a son and places him in the Nile to keep him safe from Pharaoh. Pharaoh's daughter discovers him while bathing, adopts him, and names him Moses . After Moses grows up, he kills an Egyptian who was abusing one of his people.
Chapter 2 begins with the birth of Moses, and continues: A certain member of the house of Levi went and took [into his household as his wife] a woman of Levi. The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw how beautiful he was, she hid him for three months.
The firstborn or firstborn son (Hebrew בְּכוֹר bəḵōr) is an important concept in Judaism.The role of firstborn son carries significance in the redemption of the first-born son, in the allocation of a double portion of the inheritance, and in the prophetic application of "firstborn" to the nation of Israel.
A painting by Konstantin Flavitsky of Pharaoh's daughter finding Moses, who is in a basket.. The ark of bulrushes (Hebrew: תבת גמא, romanized: têḇaṯ gōme) was a container which, according to the episode known as the finding of Moses in the biblical Book of Exodus, carried the infant Moses.
According to traditional rabbinic biblical chronology, Moses was 80 years old when the Exodus occurred, the Israelites had been in Egypt for 210 years in total, and thus in combination with the rabbinical claim that Jochebed was born on the border of Egypt, as her parents had entered it, this would require Jochebed to have been 130 years old ...
Zipporah [a] is mentioned in the Book of Exodus as the wife of Moses, and the daughter of Jethro, the priest and prince of Midian. [1] She is the mother of Moses' two sons: Eliezer, and Gershom. In the Book of Chronicles, two of her grandsons are mentioned: Shebuel, son of Gershom; and Rehabiah, son of Eliezer (1 Chronicles 23:16–17).
(Exodus 4:1 NIV). God gives Moses three signs that he can perform to authenticate his call – the ability to turn Moses' staff into a snake, the ability to make his hand leprous and then well again, and the ability to turn water into blood. Moses then objects that he is "slow of speech and tongue" (Exodus 4:10 NIV). God says, "Now go; I will ...
According to the Bible, Gershom (גֵּרְשֹׁם Gēršōm, "a sojourner there"; Latin: Gersam) was the firstborn son of Moses and Zipporah. [1] The name means "a stranger there" in Hebrew, (גר שם ger sham), which the text argues was a reference to Moses' flight from Egypt.