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Bible Memory Verse

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1

I wonder what the baby was doing in the river.

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The True StoryThis is a true story in the life of Moses.Some time after Joseph died, the Israelite

people became slaves of the Egyptians. When Pharaoh ruled in Egypt, he feared the slaves were becoming too powerful. There were so many of them. So Pharaoh said all the baby boys should be thrown into the Nile River to die.

Then Moses was born. To keep Moses safe, his mother hid him for three months. When this no longer worked, she made a basket of bulrushes. Then she put her baby in that basket.*

She put the basket in the Nile River. There it floated among the tall reeds at the river’s edge where the daughter of Pharaoh came. Moses’ mother told her daughter, Miriam, to hide there and find out what happened to her baby.*

Not long after that, the daughter of Pharaoh walked beside the river. She saw the basket and asked her maid to get it. She looked in the basket and found a baby boy who was crying!*

Pharaoh’s daughter felt sad for the baby. She knew of her father’s rule, but she wanted to save this Israelite baby. Soon Miriam, the baby’s sister, came out of hiding. Miriam offered to find someone to care for the baby so Pharaoh’s daughter could keep him. Pharaoh’s daughter agreed. Miriam went to find the baby’s very own mother to care for him.

When the baby grew older, he was brought to Pharaoh’s daughter to live with the Egyptians. Pharaoh’s daughter named him Moses, which means she drew him out of the water. Just as Moses was saved through the water of the Nile, so we are saved through the water of Baptism!

When Moses was an adult, God used him as a leader of the Israelite people. God sent Moses to lead many people from slavery to freedom. God sent His Son, Jesus, to free us from the slavery of sin to live as His free children.

Read ShareFindLook It Up Exodus 2:7–8What did Pharaoh’s daughter say Miriam should do?

Exodus 2:10What happened when the child grew up?

Family TimeWhile EatingTogether look at the painting on the front of this leaflet. Then tell how God was at work.

While SingingMake up a melody to sing this week’s Bible Memory Verse. Sing it softly. Sing it loudly. Sing it with joy!

At BedtimeBefore you

close your eyes, talk about what it means

that God is our refuge. Then pray: Dear God, thank You for being my refuge from sin, death, and the devil. Amen.

As you read the story on the left, pause when you come to an *. Then, look at the pictures below.

* Moses’ mother used bitumen (tar) and something called pitch to seal the basket. In this strange way, God was at work to save the Israelites. Even when it seems that God is not at work in our lives, He is.

* Miriam had an important job. She obeyed her mother. She was brave and spoke to Pharaoh’s daughter.

* Pharaoh’s daughter had compassion on the crying baby. Then she paid Moses’ mother to care for her own son. Moses was born of parents who believed in God. Later, he was raised in the wisdom of the Egyptians. God was at work.

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Pharaoh’s daughter had compassion on the

raised in the wisdom of the Egyptians. God was

mother. She was

Moses’ mother used bitumen (tar) and

way, God was at

God saved baby Moses. God saved baby me!

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