The mother of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, a Levite woman whose courageous faith saved the future liberator of Israel. When Pharaoh ordered all Hebrew baby boys thrown into the Nile, Jochebed hid Moses for three months, then placed him in a waterproof basket among the reeds. Her daring plan resulted in Pharaoh’s own daughter rescuing the child, and Jochebed was even paid to nurse her own son. The book of Hebrews credits this act to faith.
Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months. But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. And his sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him. Soon the daughter of…
A mother hides her baby in a basket on the Nile. A princess pulls him out. The deliverer grows up in the house of the oppressor.
I Am the Lord
God reaffirms His covenant name and His promise. Even when the people are too crushed to listen.
and Amram’s wife was named Jochebed. She was also a daughter of Levi, born to Levi in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.
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