ILLUSTRATED BIBLE STORY

Moses Grows Up in EgyptEXODUS CHAPTERS 1-2

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MANY YEARS AFTER JOSEPH DIED, A NEWPHARAOH RULED OVER EGYPT. HE HATED THEHEBREWS, WHO WORSHIPPED JEHOVAH.

LOOK!THE HEBREWS ARE

MORE NUMEROUS ANDMIGHTIER THAN WEARE! MAKE THEM

SLAVES!

KILLEVERY BABY

BOY WHEN IT ISBORN!

MEANWHILE, A HEBREW WOMANNAMED JOCHEBED HAD A BABY BOY.

MOTHER, WHYARE WE KEEPING

MY BABY BROTHERHIDDEN?

BECAUSE,MIRIAM, WE HAVETO PROTECT HIMFROM PHARAOH.

BUT AFTER THREEMONTHS, JOCHEBEDWAS NOT ABLE TOHIDE HIM . . .

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I AM GOINGTO PUT THE BABY IN APAPYRUS ARK AND

PLACE IT AMONG THEREEDS OF THENILE RIVER. I WILL

STAY HERE ANDSEE IF SOMEBODYFINDS MY BROTHERAND FEELS SORRY

FOR HIM.

PHARAOH’S DAUGHTER CAMETO BATHE IN THE RIVER. . . .

WHAT ISTHAT DOING

THERE? GET ITFOR ME.

THIS IS ONE OFTHE HEBREWCHILDREN.

WOULD YOULIKE ME TO CALL

ONE OF THE HEBREWWOMEN SO THAT SHE MAY

NURSE THE CHILDFOR YOU?

YES.GO!

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NOT ONLY DID JOCHEBED’S SON SURVIVE BUTJOCHEBED TOOK CARE OF HIM FOR SEVERALYEARS AND TAUGHT HIM TO LOVE JEHOVAH.

LATER, JOCHEBED RETURNEDHIM TO PHARAOH’S DAUGHTER.

I WILLCALL HIM

MOSES BECAUSEI HAVE DRAWN HIM

OUT OF THEWATER.

MOSES LIVED WITH THEEGYPTIANS. BUT HE DID NOTFORGET THAT HIS FAMILY,WHO WERE HEBREWS,WERE STILL SLAVES.

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ONE DAY, MOSES SAW ANEGYPTIAN STRIKE A HEBREW SLAVE.

MOSES WANTED TO HELP, SOHE KILLED THE EGYPTIAN.

WHEN PHARAOH HEARD WHAT MOSESHAD DONE, HE WANTED TO KILL MOSES.

SO MOSES RAN AWAY TO MIDIAN.

LATER, IN MIDIAN, MOSESMARRIED ZIPPORAH ANDHAD A FAMILY.

BUT BACK IN EGYPT, THE HEBREWS WERESTILL SLAVES. IN THE NEXT ILLUSTRATEDBIBLE STORY, LEARN WHAT HAPPENEDWHEN JEHOVAH SENT MOSES BACK TOEGYPT TO HELP THE HEBREWS.

WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM THISSTORY?HOW DID MIRIAM TREAT HER YOUNGERBROTHER?

CLUE: EXODUS 2:4, 7; 1 JOHN 3:17, 18.

WHY WAS IT WRONG FOR PHARAOH TO HATEPEOPLE OF A RACE THAT WAS DIFFERENTFROM HIS?

CLUE: ACTS 10:34, 35.

HOW SHOULD YOU TREAT SOMEONE WHOSERACE IS DIFFERENT FROM YOURS?

CLUE: 1 SAMUEL 16:7.

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