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The document tells the story of Moses and the Israelites' bondage in Egypt, as recounted in the Book of Exodus. It describes how the Israelites, initially welcomed due to Joseph's legacy, became oppressed by a new Pharaoh who feared their growing numbers. Despite cruel treatment and orders to kill Hebrew baby boys, the Israelites continued to multiply, showcasing God's protection over them.

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THE STORY OF MOSES

Aunt Hattie's Bible Stories

by

Harriet I. Fisher

Colportage Library #446

There is a free paraphrase of Scripture passages in use quite frequently


throughout this book in the interest of youthful minds.
- The Publishers

Copyright @ 1951

CHAPTER ONE

ISRAEL IN BONDAGE IN EGYPT

Did you ever go to one of the great world's fairs? Some have been held in Chicago, New York,
and an Francisco.

Where do the people who attend such fairs go in?

At the entrance, of course.

Where do they go out?

At the exit. What useless questions!

The stories we have now are written from the second book of the Bible, called Exodus. You have
just read that the place where you go out of any fairgrounds is called the exit and that is what the
word Exodus means, "the going out."

Before you come out you have to go in. In the Book of Genesis you remember God chose
Abraham to be the father of a great nation and promised him many things in the land He had
selected for him, he land we call Palestine!

Then, you remember, the story of Joseph and the way his family, the children of Jacob, also
called Israelites, came to dwell in the land of Egypt. It this book we have the story of their exit or
exodus out of Egypt.

These Hebrews, the children of Israel, were as you may know, chosen of God for His own
purposes. God had a special care over them even when they were out of the land He had given to
them.
Joseph ruled Egypt under the Pharaohs (the kings of Egypt) for eighty years. For many years
after his death and the death of his brothers these Egyptian kings were good to the descendants of
Israel for Joseph's sake. Finally a king came to the throne who did not know Joseph. He must
have heard of him but he did not honor his name and seemed to have forgotten the blessings that
Joseph had brought this country.

Looking over his kingdom he saw that this great family had now grown to be a powerful nation,
he said to his leaders, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier
than we . . . Let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply and it come to pass, that, when
there falleth out any war, they join also with our enemies, and fight against us, and so get
them up out of the land!” (Exodus 1:9, 10).

That means that Pharaoh was afraid that Israel would increase to great numbers and join with his
enemies and overthrow the government of Egypt.

What was to be done about it? I believe he spent much thought and time on the subject. The
kings of that time were very anxious to continue their own names and to do this they sometimes
built a city or some great building that would last through long ages so that their children and
grandchildren for generations would be reminded of them.

This Pharaoh of the Exodus-time had this kind of an ambition. He saw his opportunity in these
Israelites who were causing him so much worry on account of their increasing numbers.

The cunning schemer must have said to himself, "They shall build for me cities which I'll name
Pithom and Raamses," for the Bible says they did build cities with those names.

Some of the Hebrew people labored in the fields, though most of them worked in the brick-kilns
making brick for the building of the "treasure cities." But wherever they toiled, Pharaoh placed
cruel taskmasters over them who worked them very hard. But the harder they worked the
Hebrews, the more there were. This angered the overseers who became more cruel and heartless,
for the Bible says "they made their lives bitter with hard bondage."

In spite of all of the persecution, there were more Israelites every year and Pharaoh had to think
of another way to stop the growth of the nation that so troubled him.

He summoned before him the two head nurses of Israel, Shiphrah and Puah, and told them that
when they were called to an Israelitish home to take care of a new baby, if it was a boy they
should kill him, but if a girl she should live.

These nurses feared God and would not do as the king commanded them.

Before long Shiphrah and Puah were called again before Pharaoh who asked them why they had
not done as he told them, why they had spared the boy babies. They were ready with an answer
and a true one, too. They said that the babies were born before they were called to care for them.
It was too late then to kill them.
God was pleased with the nurses and with their testimony.

In spite of all that Pharaoh tried to do, the nation of Israel only grew stronger in numbers.

However, Pharaoh would have his way, so he commanded the Egyptians to kill all the Hebrew
boy babies and to cast their bodies into the river.

What a terrible time it must have been in those homes where baby boys were born. Every father
and mother dreaded to see a new son. And I think very often some Egyptian would come along,
find a boy baby, snatch him away and kill him, then throw his body in the river.

~ end of chapter 1 ~

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