Moses In Egypt
SAVED FOR A BIG MISSION
EXODUS 2:1-10
We are in Egypt, over 400 years since Joseph.
Joseph’s family has grown and grown and become many and very powerful.
So much so that the Egyptians felt threatened.
And made the Israelites their SLAVES
Then the Lord raised up MOSES.
At the time of his birth the mid wives had been instructed to not let any baby boys live!
Exodus 1:16
But the mid wives feared the Lord and couldn’t t kill babies.
Exodus 1:17
READ Exodus 1:22
MEET MOSES, his mom, his sister, MIRIAM
and a PRINCESS
Moses is the youngest of 3 children.
(Miriam, Aaron and Moses)
LET US START WITH BABY MOSES
Moses was born in Egypt. But he was not an Egyptian. He was an Israelite. At that time the Pharaoh of Egypt gave an order that every newborn baby boy was to be thrown into the Nile River and killed, but baby girls could live. But this is a story about how God can protect His own chosen people, even during evil times like this.
Read Exodus 2:1-10
Questions:
1. Instead of throwing Moses into the Nile, what did his mother do with him for the first three months of his life? (She hid him.)
2. When his mother could hide him no longer, what did she do with Moses? (She put him in a basket and set him among the reeds in the Nile.)
3. Where did Pharaoh's daughter find the baby? (Along the bank of the Nile among the reeds.)
4. What was Pharaoh's daughter doing when she found Moses? (Bathing with her servants.)
5. Do you think Moses was found by accident, or was it God's plan? (God's plan.)
6. Who did Pharaoh's daughter find to nurse the baby? (His mother.)
7. How do we see God's protection in this story? (God protected Moses from dying in the Nile River by allowing Pharaoh's daughter to find him and raise him as an Egyptian.)