When was moses born

Moses, whose name means "taken out" or "drawn forth," is born into an Israelite family from the tribe of Levi. The family consists of sister Miriam (roughly twelve years old) and brother Aaron (three years old).

Pharaoh, shortly before Moses' birth, decreed the death of all Hebrew male children.

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And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah.

And he said, "When you midwife the Hebrew women, and look on the birth stools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him.

Moses story in the bible

But if it is a daughter, then she shall live." (Exodus 1:15 - 16, HBFV).

Unable to conceal her baby for very long, Moses' mother Jochebed carried out a plan to save her child. She put him in a small ark and placed it in the reeds along the river hoping would find and let him live.

Pharaoh's daughter finds the baby and immediately adopts him. Miriam, who s