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Moses Born — The Basket in the Nile

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Exodus 1:22–2:10
Moses Born — The Basket in the Nile — Exodus 1:22–2:10

Pharaoh decrees every Hebrew son must be cast into the Nile. A Levite woman hides her son for three months, then places him in a basket of papyrus sealed with pitch — and sets him on the very river meant to drown him. The Nile becomes the instrument of his deliverance.

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