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==Life==
===Birth===
According to the Book of Exodus Moses was born in the thirteenth century BC. He was born of a Hebrew family who came from the tribe of Levi. His parents were Amran and Yocheved. Because Pharaoh ordered that all Hebrew infant boys be slain or thrown into the river his mother hid him in her home for three months. When it was no longer possible to hide him, she hid him in a reed basket by the banks of the river. The infant’s sister Miriam, watched over it from afar, to see what would happen.
By God's providence, the daughter of Pharaoh came to the river to bathe with her servants. She noticed the basket and when she found the child inside, she raised him as her own.
Seeing that her brother had been discovered by the princess, Miriam approached her and negotiated for Moses' mother Yocheved to nurse the child.
When the infant grew up, his mother brought him to the princess. The princess took him with her, and treated him like a son as she did not have any children. She gave him the name Moses, which means, “taken up from the water”.
Moses grew up in the royal palace and was taught all of the wisdom of Egypt and raised in the same manner as all Egyptian boys.
Once, Moses saw an Egyptian overseer beating a Hebrew. He intervened in order to defend the Hebrew and killed the Egyptian. On another occasion Moses saw one Hebrew beating another Hebrew. Moses wanted to stop him but he brazenly replied, “Do you intend to kill me like you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was frightened when he saw that people knew what he had done and so he fled from Egypt and from Pharaoh into a different country, Arabia, in the land of Midian. He settled there, in the home of the priest Jethro, also known as Reuel, after he saved Jethro’s seven daughters from the abuse of Midianite shepherds. He lived in the land of Midian and married Jethro’s daughter Zepphora. He worked as a shepherd, looking after his father-in-law’s flocks.
===The Burning Bush===
