Welcome and thank you for taking a bible break to test your knowledge of God's word. This week's question:

To chapter one of Exodus we go to find the Hebrews still in Egypt-long after the deaths of Joseph and his brothers. Now a new Pharaoh is in place, one who does not remember Joseph and he sees the Hebrews as a threat as they have prospered and now outnumber the Egyptians. So he asks the Hebrew midwives to kill any sons born of the Israelites. But they fear God and do not do it. So then he more brazenly sends out a decree that any sons are to be thrown into the Nile upon birth.

Exodus 1:22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "Every son who is

born you are to cast into the Nile, and every daughter you are to keep alive."

Soon, in chapter two, Levi parents have a son, and after hiding him for three months, the mother realizes she can hide him no longer. She takes a wicker basket and coves it with tar and pitch and then sets it, with the child, among the reeds in the Nile and asks her daughter to watch what happens. In time, the daughter of Pharaoh comes to bathe and upon seeing the basket, asks her maid to fetch it. When she does a beautiful baby is revealed, and she recognizes it as a Hebrew child and takes pity on him. His sister immediately says she could get a nurse maid for the child from the Hebrews. What a brilliant idea child, and is requested to do so, and she promptly gets the child's own mother, who is paid wages by Pharaoh's daughter to care for the child till he is grown! And as he grew Pharaoh's daughter names him Moses, as she drew him out of the water.

Exodus 2:10 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter and he

Became her son. And she names him Moses, and said, "because I drew him out

Of the water."

So there we have the answer to our question- "Moses", another Hebrew among the Egyptians who grew in power, but only in trying to help his own brethren, ends up killing an Egyptian and when Pharaoh hears of it wants Moses killed so he flees to Midian where he lives as a shepherd.

A way of living that is 'loathsome to the Egyptians' Genesis 47:34.