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THE BABE MOSES
There rose a King over Egypt who knew nothing
of God. Therefore he thought no good in his heart.
And he said: * There live in the midst of our land
the Children of Israel. They are not of our people;
yet they are more in numbers than we. I fear lest
they have too many babes that grow up to be
strong men and stand against us. Come on then;
let us throw into the river every boy babe that is
born unto them.”
Now there was at this time in Egypt a certain
man and his wife of the Children of Israel, and there
was born unto them a boy babe, even such a one
as Pharaoh the King, had commanded should be
thrown into the river. But he was a goodly child,
and his mother loved him and held him close to
her heart and cherished him. And she kept him
hid three months that Pharaoh’s servants might
not find him and throw him into the river.
And when she could no longer hide him, she
gathered bulrushes from the river bank and made
of them a little ark. And she daubed the ark with
mud and pitch and put her babe therein, and laid
him in the rushes by the river.
Then she bade his sister stand afar off and watch
what would be done to him. And she kissed the
little one and went back to her home; for her trust
was in God , and she knew that God was with the
child to save him.
And it came to pass that the daughter of Pharaoh
the King came down to wash herself at the river;
and her maidens walked along by the river’s side.
When she saw the ark among the rushes, she sent
her maid to get it. And when she had laid back
the coverings, she saw the little babe, and behold!
he was crying.
Then Pharaoh’s daughter was filled with pity
for the child, and she took him to her and said,
“This is a babe of the Children of Israel, even such
a one as my father has commanded should be
thrown into the river.”
But, as she held the little one in her arms and
saw how he wept, God touched her heart, and she
thought within herself to save the child, for she
knew that the King, her father, would grant unto
her whatsoever she asked of him. So she cried out
to her maids and said, ‘1 will ask of the King, my
father, that I may keep this little ^ one. He shall
be as my own son.”
Then came the sister of the babe, who had been
watching, and said to Pharaoh’s daughter, ”Shall
I go and call to thee a nurse of the women of
Israel that she may care for the child for thee?”
And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.”
And the maid went and called the child’s own
mother. –
And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto the child’s
mother, “Take this child away and nurse him for
me, and I will give thee thy wages.”
And the mother took her little babe, and held
him close, and rejoiced, and gave thanks in her
heart that God had saved him.
And she nursed the child and he grew, and when
he was no more a babe, she brought him unto
Pharaoh’s daughter in the house of the King, and
Pharaoh’s daughter kept him as her own son.
And she called his name, Moses. “Because,”
she said, “I drew him out of the water.”
