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Bible
Stories : The Story of Moses
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The Israelites who are descendants of Jacob lived in Egypt. These
people, also known as “the children of Israel’, became large in numbers
which made the king of Egypt, Pharaoh, very worried. Fearing
that one day they would turn against him, Pharaoh made the Israelites work for
him as slaves.
Pharaoh also ordered that every new-born Israelite baby boy be thrown
into the River Nile. There was a man
and his wife who had three children, Aaron, Miriam, and their baby brother. When
the baby brother was born, his mother hid him to save his life. The
baby was growing and his mother could not keep on hiding him anymore. She
decided to leave him on the bank of the River Nile where the king’s daughter
comes to bathe. |
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When the princess of Egypt came to the bank of the
River Nile she found the baby in the cradle and realized that he was a Hebrew
child. She decided to take the adorable baby and raise him as her
own. Just before the princess left,
the baby’s sister, Merriam, who was hiding in the bushes, came out of the
bushes and asked the princess ‘Shall I go and bring a Hebrew woman to take
care of the baby for you?’. The
princess agreed, and Merriam went to fetch her mother. The
mother was very happy and grateful to God because she was going to be close to
her child. The baby whom the
princess named Moses lived in the palace and was treated as if he were her son. |
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When Moses grew up, he found out that he was an Israelite. He
was angry at the cruelty and the brutality with which his people were treated. One
day Moses saw old men and children being whipped and beaten by the Egyptians to
work harder. This made him lose his
temper and beat one of the Egyptians “taskmasters” to death. When
Pharaoh heard this, he ordered that Moses must be killed! Moses
however, fled Egypt to the land of Midian. |
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One
day as Moses was walking, he saw a burning bush.
When he got closer, he heard the voice of God. “I
am the God of Israel, I have seen the sorrows of my people and I have heard
their cry, and I will send you to bring my people out of Egypt.” Moses obeyed
God, and went along with his brother Aaron to Egypt to set his people free and
lead them out of Egypt to the Promised Land. |
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