September 4, 2024

For those who only want the answer to the question in the title, the name “Moses” means “to draw out.” In Exodus 2:10, Moses is “drawn out” of the water, so that name symbolizes the manner in which Moses was connected to his adopted mother, the princess of Egypt. But that’s not all that Moses […]

It’s hard to think about what the story of the Exodus would look like without some strong women in the first few chapters. In Exodus 1, we read about Puah and Shiphrah – two Hebrew midwives who defied a direct order from Pharaoh to kill all the boy babies of Israel.  In Exodus 2, we