ScriptureExodus 2:4, 7 (NIV)“His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him… Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, ‘Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?’”DevotionalThe final figure is Miriam, Moses’ older sister. When her mother places Moses in the basket, Miriam stays nearby, watching from a distance. She is young and easily overlooked, yet she...

ScriptureExodus 2:5-6 (NIV)“Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him.”DevotionalThe basket carrying baby Moses drifts near Pharaoh’s daughter, an Egyptian princess and the child of the v...

ScriptureExodus 2:3 (NIV)“But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket forhim and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it andput it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.”DevotionalAfter Pharaoh orders every Hebrew baby boy to be thrown into the Nile,a Levite woman named Jochebed gives birth to a son—Moses. She hideshim for three months, protecting him...