Exodus-Chap-2-1-14
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Part One..
With
Rabbi, Dr. Reuven Ben Avraham-Goossens, PhD.
Introduction:
In these verses, we witness the transition
from national oppression to the emergence of a deliverer.
While Pharaoh sought to drown the future of
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Let us now read Shemot - Exodus Chapter 2:1-14: (JPS-1917 version of the Torah).
1. “And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2. And the woman conceived, and bore a son; and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 3. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink. 4. And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him. 5. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it. 6. And she opened it, and saw it, even the child; and behold a boy that wept. And she had compassion on him, and said: ‘This is one of the Hebrews children’. 7. Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter: ‘Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?’ 8. And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her: ‘Go’. And the maiden went and called the child’s mother. 9. And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her: ‘Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages’. And the woman took the child, and nursed it. 10. And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said: ‘Because I drew him out of the water’. 11. And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren. 12. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. 13. And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together; and he said to him that did the wrong: ‘Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?’ 14. And he said: ‘Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? thinkest thou to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian?’ And Moses feared, and said: ‘Surely the thing is known’”.
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Here is the commentary on the verses shown above:
Verses 1-2: A man of the house of Levi marries a daughter of Levi. The
birth of Moshe - Moses is marked by his mother seeing he is “goodly” (tov). This suggests more than physical beauty; it implies a
divine purpose or a special light that compelled her to defy the king’s decree.
Verses 3-4: Unable to hide him further, she places him in an ark (tebah) of bulrushes. The use of the word “ark” the same used for Noah signals a vessel of salvation amidst destruction. His sister, Miriam, stands at a distance, representing the watchful hope of the family.
Verses 5-6: Pharaoh’s daughter descends to the river. Her act of compassion upon hearing the babe cry is the first crack in the Egyptian decree. She recognises he is one of the “Hebrews’ children” but chooses humanity over her father’s policy.
Verses 7-10: Through Miriam’s quick thinking, Moses is raised by his own
mother under the protection of the Egyptian crown. He grows up in two worlds.
He is named Moses (Moshe), “because
I drew him out of the water”. a name that foreshadows
his destiny to draw his people out of
Verses 11-12: Now grown, Moses “went out unto his brethren”. He does not remain indifferent in the palace. Seeing an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, he intervenes and kills the Egyptian. This is his first act of leadership, though it is impulsive and shadowed by secrecy.
Verses 13-14: The next day, Moses tries to mediate between two Hebrews. Their rejection of him “Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?” reveals the internal brokenness of a slave population. Moses realizes his deed is known and that he is no longer safe in Pharaoh’s court.
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My Closing Message:
This opening chapter of Moses’ life teaches us that redemption often begins in secret and through the hands of the unlikely. Moses had to move from the comfort of the palace to the suffering of the pits to find his identity. Even before אֱלֹהִים - Elohim speaks to him from the bush, we see a man who cannot stand by while the vulnerable are mistreated.
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