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The Goshen: The Birth Of Moses

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• The passage takes place in Goshen where all the Hebrew people are currently living. After Moses is born he is placed in a basket in the Nile river and found by Pharaohs daughter. Miriam his older sister was sent to keep watch on baby Moses and was also present when Pharaoh’s daughter found him. So the princess asked Miriam to take the child and find a Hebrew woman to nurse it for her. So naturally Miriam brought baby Moses back to her mother to nurse him.
• This passage can be seen as a biographical narrative. This is because the passage gives the birth legend of Moses and starts off discussing Moses’s birth and how a he as a Hebrew came to live in the palace of Pharaoh. Something that is more prominent is the so called underdog theme. The …show more content…

The fact that he is born in a time when the Pharaoh is oppressing the Hebrew people is a large problem. If we look deeper into the Historical context it we see that Pharaoh had decreed the midwives to kill any Hebrew baby boys. This was an attempt to try and control the rising population of Hebrews. The climax of the narrative is when the daughter of Pharaoh finds the basket that Moses had been placed in. If one had never heard the story of Moses before it would be a situation of great anticipation knowing that the Pharaoh had decreed for Hebrew boys to be killed. The context of the story should be read with great intensity and suspense to get a feel for how Miriam may have felt seeing this all …show more content…

If we look at the historical context of the passage we see that the Hebrew people were under the rule of a new Pharaoh who did not know Joseph. (ESV). The significance of mentioning the Pharaoh did not know Joseph was that for the Hebrew people Joseph was seen as a savior of the Egyptians and his family for his guidance during the great famine that covered the land in Genesis. Its implied that if the Pharaoh had known the partnership between the Hebrews and the Egyptians long ago he might not have treated them the way he did. With the growing population of the Hebrews the Pharaoh grew scared that the people might join sides with an enemy nation or revolt against the Egyptians. So Pharaoh decreed that all newborn Hebrew boys be thrown into the Nile river. This was so that the population could be

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