Exodus 2:1-10
Moses Is Born (Hebrews 11:23)
1 And a man of the house of Levi went and took as wife a daughter of Levi. 2 So the woman conceived and bore a son. And when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him three months. 3 But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank. 4 And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.
5 Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river. And her maidens walked along the riverside; and when she saw the ark among the reeds, she sent her maid to get it. 6 And when she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby wept. So she had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”
8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the maiden went and called the child’s mother. 9 Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him. 10 And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. So she called his name Moses, saying, “Because I drew him out of the water.”
Moses was one of the Hebrew baby boys born in Egypt that was under a sentence of death by the king of that country who tried in futility to stop the people of God from multiplying to fill the earth as they were commanded to do by their LORD. This boy was born in the house of Levi, the future priests of Israel (Deuteronomy 10:8), but was kept hidden for three months before he was too old to hide and was therefore set free into the river in a basket. His sister (Miriam) watched the boy floating there in the rushes to see what would become of her baby brother and saw when the daughter of Pharaoh spotted him and had him drawn out of the river (the name Moses means ‘drawn out’). This rescue reminds us of how we are drawn out of the world (John 6:44) under condemnation of a sentence of death (2 Corinthians 1:9-10) until we were drawn out and made His adopted children as Moses was by Pharaoh’s daughter. The royal daughter knew at once that Moses was one of the Hebrew baby boys and Miriam quickly jumped in to ask her if she should fetch a Hebrew wet nurse to wean him. She ran back to get their own mother for the task. Such is the providence of God! The king’s daughter adopted the boy and she was the one to name him Moses, likely knowing the Hebrew meaning of the name she chose as she had drawn him safely out of the certain destruction of death in the river from the serpent’s relatives, the crocodiles. We also have been saved from being devoured by the serpent who targets God’s children (1 Peter 5:8, Revelation 12:17) even now, to push this shadow of an analogy a bit further as a reminder. We see that God allowed Moses to be delivered from death that he might later be used to deliver his own people and even had his own mother to raise him until he was weaned from his mother’s milk and given to Pharaoh’s daughter to raise in the education of the world that he might understand many things and be placed in a position to understand the ways of the court which he would later approach to try to make a deal with the king to let his people go free. All this because God had Moses drawn out of the dangerous water and delivered from a certain death that he might later serve the Lord who saved him. This is a picture of our own salvation by which we were drawn out of death and darkness under sin’s curse and delivered into the marvelous light of the kingdom of God in God’s Son! We can therefore look at our own deliverance from death (2 Corinthians 1:10) caused by being born in sin and continuing therein until we were rescued by Him, and then marvel at how He drew us to Himself (Jeremiah 31:3, John 12:32) in His Son and stand in wonder to know Jesus called us to do His will (Ephesians 2:10) as prepared for us as well in ministering the gospel to the world we have been rescued out of!
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