Fearless Women

There is something I think worth noting in this adoption story. Before Moses became the great and iconic figure who would lead the Israelites out of bondage he needed quite a bit of help along the way. What’s interesting to me is that no man is mentioned as being of any help whatsoever. Moses is supported by a cast of fearless women.

We begin with the midwives who had been instructed to perform infanticide on any Hebrew males that were born: The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, “When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.” The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. ~Exodus 1:15-17  The King caught wind of the fact that bouncing baby Hebrew boys were continuing to pop up everywhere  – a veritable bumper crop. He called the ladies in for what could have been a fatal confrontation: Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?” Exodus 1:18  Here, they come up with a versionof the truth: The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”  Sure, they had probably seen this happen a few times in their career, but it is a stretch to think it happened every time. It was at some point during this midwife, civil disobedience movement that Moses was born. His mom must have been one of the vigorous Hebrew women brought to Pharaoh’s attention! 

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It’s this Princess who completes the story. While we might suspect that a Pharaoh’s daughter was pampered and spoiled we can also assume that it took no small amount of courage to bring a Hebrew lad into the royal family – to in effect declare him a Prince of Egypt. But that’s what she did. We can glean from Scripture that the Pharaoh was none too happy about it based upon a sliver of a verse that shows up after Moses is grown. By this time Moses had been getting in touch with his Ancestry.com self and was hanging in the hood with the Hebrews. One day he sees a Hebrew slave taking a beating by a fellow Egyptian – not an uncommon scene. Wait, it’s not a fellow Egyptian! It’s an Egyptian! He is thrashing a fellow Hebrew! Moses goes Old Testament on the Egyptian and kills him. Later, the Pharaoh – Moses’ grandpa (!) – gets wind of it. Rather than calling Moses in to explain himself, he issues one of his famous precipitate judgments: When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses… ~Exodus 2:15  That doesn’t sound like any grandparent or parent that I know. Love gives the benefit of the doubt and support to the fallen. That was not Pharaoh’s default sentiment in respect to Moses. Pharaoh had been waiting for years to finish a job that in his mind should have been completed years earlier. Knowing this, and knowing the number of years Moses walked about Pharaoh’s courts, the Princess of Egypt may have been the bravest of them all.