Words in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original Hebrew or Aramaic.

Exodus 2

• About the title: “Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.”
  ― Wallace Stevens
• A man’s container is either God, holding Truth, or a nothing god, which leaks.
• The Pharaoh dammed up the Hebrews, unwilling to let them go. When God broke the dam, the pharaoh drowned in its waters.
• Jesus is the “Living Waters”.
• The Pharaoh commanded the nursemaids to drown all Hebrew male babies delivered in the water. God turns the tables on Pharaoh, giving him his just due; the Pharaoh is therefore also drowned in the water.
  

Moses Is Born

• A “Must See” Topic: The Pharaoh of the Red Sea establishes the timing and identity of the Pharaoh.

Exodus 2:¹ And a man of the house of Levi (Amram) 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 (Miriam) stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.

• Three months: The pattern of 3+1 (Moses put in the water) without another succeeding 3. Unfinished. See TOPIC: The Pattern of 3-1-3

Exodus 2:⁵ Then the daughter of Pharaoh (Tut-Moses I) 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.

Exodus 2:⁶ 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.”

• Note: The Pharaoh’s daughter knew that the child was a Hebrew.

Exodus 2:⁷ Then his sister (Miriam) 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?”

Exodus 2:⁸ And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the maiden (Miriam) went and called the child’s mother (who was also Miriam’s mother).

Exodus 2:⁹ 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 (Jochebed) took the child and nursed him.

• “Unknown to the Pharaoh’s daughter, The woman who nursed Moses was Moses’ biological mother, Jochebed,
• “Amram took him (himself) Jochebed, his father’s sister (his aunt) to wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses.” Later, such a union would be unlawful. Leviticus 18:12,16 makes it quite clear that marrying one’s aunt is off limits.

Exodus 2:¹⁰ And the child grew, and she (Jochebed) 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.”

• Note: Being drawn from the water in ancient times meant “being born”.

• The Pharaoh, Tut-“moses” II was also named after being drawn from the water, the key word is “born” as the “son” of the Egyptian god, translated as “Born of the god Thoth“. This pharaoh was not only drawn from the water, but he drowned in the water, the Red Sea, chasing the Hebrews with vengeance in his heart. Not only did Tutmoses II drown, but ALL the nobles of Egypt, including its entire army, the priests, and the pharaoh.
  
• The ancient Hebrew alphabet letter “Mem” (#40 quite appropriate for the Exodus), means “water, chaos, and/or blood”. The first letter of Moses’ name.
  BELOW: ANCIENT HEBREW LETTERS
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Moses Flees to Midian

Exodus 2:¹¹ Now it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

Exodus 2:¹² So he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Exodus 2:¹³ And when he went out the second day, behold, two Hebrew men were fighting, and he said to the one who did the wrong, “Why are you striking your companion?”

Exodus 2:¹⁴ Then he said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?”

• Who Indeed! God makes Moses a prince, a judge, and a prophet.

So Moses feared and said, “Surely this thing is known!”

Exodus 2:¹⁵ When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.

Exodus 2:¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew water, and they filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

Exodus 2:¹⁷ Then the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

• The irony: Again, Moses is “drawn from the water”. He is the water, as a resource for this family, who is drawing the water” from the well.
• Moses IS “water drawing water from the well”. Moses is a “type” of Jesus, when He spoke to the Samaritan woman at the well (John 4:10).

Exodus 2:¹⁸ When they came to Reuel (aka Jethro), their father, he said, “How is it that you have come so soon today?”

Exodus 2:¹⁹ And they said, “An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew enough water for us and watered the flock.”

Exodus 2:²⁰ So he said to his daughters, “And where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”

Exodus 2:²¹ Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah, his daughter, to Moses.

Exodus 2:22 And she (Zipporah) bore him (Moses) a son. He called his name Gershom, for he (Moses) said, “I have been a stranger (nāḵrî) in a foreign land.”

Exodus 2:23 Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died (Tut-Moses I). Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God (‘ĕlōhîm) because of the bondage.

• Tut-Moses II took Egypt’s throne after the death of his father.

Exodus 2:24 So God (‘ĕlōhîm) heard their groaning, and God (‘ĕlōhîm) remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Exodus 2:25 And God (‘ĕlōhîm) looked upon the children of Israel, and God (‘ĕlōhîm) acknowledged them.

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{1 of 4} Exodus 2 – “Go With the Flow”
{2 of 4} Exodus 2 – “Prophetic Redemption” [v21]
{3 of 4} Exodus 2 – “He Brews” [v3,18,22]
{4 of 4} Exodus 2 – “Moe Sez” [Archeology v1]