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15 The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, saying, 16 “When you deliver the Hebrew women, look at the birthstool: if it is a boy, kill him; if it is a girl, let her live.” 17 The midwives, fearing God, did not do as the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live. 18 So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to ...
The play depicts the Christmas story from chapter two in the Gospel of Matthew. The carol refers to the Massacre of the Innocents, in which Herod ordered all male infants two years old and under in Bethlehem to be killed. [18] The lyrics of this haunting carol represent a mother's lament for her doomed child.
Joseph presenting his father and brethren to the Pharaoh (1896) Genesis 12:10–20 tells of Abram moving to Egypt to escape a period of famine in Canaan. Abram worries that the unnamed pharaoh will kill him and take away his wife Sarai, so Abram tells her to say she is his sister. They are eventually summoned to meet the pharaoh, but God sends ...
Jochebed. Moses and Jochebed by Pedro Américo, 1884. According to the Bible, Jochebed (/ ˈjɒkɪbɛd /; Biblical Hebrew: יוֹכֶבֶד, romanized: Yōḵeḇeḏ, lit. ' YHWH is glory', the 'J' is pronounced like a 'Y') was a daughter of Levi [1] and mother of Miriam, Aaron and Moses. She was the wife of Amram, as well as his aunt. [2]
Shemot (parashah) Shemot, Shemoth, or Shemos (שְׁמוֹת — Hebrew for 'names', the second word, and first distinctive word, of the parashah) is the thirteenth weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the first in the Book of Exodus. It constitutes Exodus 1:1–6:1.
Asiya ordered that the crate be drawn ashore. The maids thought there was a treasure inside, but instead found a baby boy, Moses. Unable to conceive herself, Asiya instantly felt a motherly love towards him. She told the Pharaoh about the baby. The incident has been described in the Qur'an:
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Bible/Featured chapter/Exodus 12. God commanded Moses to teach the ritual of Pesah. God told Moses to order the Hebrews to mark their doorpost with the lamb's blood, in order that the plague of death would pass over them. In the middle of the night, God came upon Egypt to take the life of all the Egyptian first-born sons, including Pharaoh's ...