Lesson 1
Moses’ Childhood
Moses’ Childhood
Reading Portion: Exodus 1:22, 2:1-10; 6:20
Lesson:
1. Many years after Joseph’s death, a new Pharaoh came to the throne. He didn’t like the Israelites, so he was cruel to them. But even though he was mean to them, the number of Israelites kept growing. He was afraid that they would turn against him and join his enemies.
2. So he commanded that all the Israelite boys be thrown into the River Nile and all the girls be kept alive.
3. At that time, a man named Amram and his wife, Jochebed, had a son. Because of Pharaoh’s command, Jochebed hid her baby for three months.
4. When she couldn’t hide him anymore, she got a basket made of reeds and covered it with tar so that it would float. Then she put the baby in the basket and put the basket among tall grass at the edge of the Nile River.
5. The baby’s sister, Miriam, stood a short distance away, watching the basket.
6. At the same time, Pharaoh’s daughter, went to go take a bath in the river. When she saw the basket, she asked her slave girl to get it. When she opened the basket, she saw a crying baby.
7. She knew it was a baby of one of the Israelites. Miriam went to Pharaoh’s daughter and asked her if she needed someone to nurse the baby.
8. Miriam went and got the baby’s mother. Jochebed took care of the baby until he was older and gave him back to Pharaoh’s daughter.
9. Pharaoh’s daughter called the baby Moses, which means “drawn out of the water."
Moral: God chooses His saints from their mother’s womb and preserves them.
Memory Verse: Isaiah 44:21
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