PULLED OUT

“Then, when the child had grown some, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter; and she began to raise him as her son. She called him Moshe [pull out], explaining, ‘Because I pulled him out of the water.’”
Exodus 2:10

Of all the stories people know from the Torah, the story of Moshe as a baby is probably the most known. It is here that we read of his mother, Yokheved, placing her son in a basket sealed with clay and tar and setting it among the bulrushes. The flow of the river swept the basket over to the banks of where Pharaoh’s daughter was bathing. But here is something interesting concerning the basket. The Hebrew word for basket is the word TEBAH. Tebah is also translated as ark. Thinking back to Noah and the flood, Adonai protected Noah, his family, and the animals in a huge basket. In both instances, deliverance of a nation was found within the basket. In both these instances, the one who would be used by Adonai to save the nation was kept safe within. Still, the account of Moshe even more so amazes me.
Watching and trailing the basket holding Moshe was his sister, Miryam. When the basket was picked up from the water as ordered by Pharaoh’s daughter to her maid in attendance, the sister asked promptly if she should fetch a Hebrew woman to nurse the child. The response was yes, and Miryam went off to retrieve her mother, Yokheved, the birth mother also of Moshe. Isn’t it awesome how once again we see Adonai put all the pieces in order? And I can almost see it now, Yokheved rocking her son in her arms, reciting to him the stories of Avraham, Yitz’chak, Ya’akov, and Yosef. I can imagine her calling out her son’s destiny and praying over him as she nursed him. There was a reason that she had worked so hard to save his life, but it went far beyond not wanting to see her son perish. Time would reveal soon enough the purposes of Adonai, but for now she rejoiced in her son being pulled out of the river, safe in her arms once again, and under the protection of Pharaoh’s daughter.

Exodus 1:18 – 2:10