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...

ScriptureExodus 1:17 (NIV)“But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypthad told them to do; they let the boys live.”DevotionalIn Exodus 1, the Israelites are enslaved in Egypt, and Pharaoh fears theirgrowing population. To stop them, he commands two Hebrewmidwives—Shiphrah and Puah—to kill every baby boy born to Hebrewwomen. As attendants at childbirth, they stood in the space...