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Miriam and Aaron
Moses's older sister and brother: a song by the sea, a golden calf, a complaint that went wrong, and a priest who stood between the dead and the living.
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Opening stop: His sister stood afar off, Exodus 2:4
Exodus does not name the girl. Numbers 26:59 lists Jochebed's children as Aaron, Moses and Miriam their sister, and names no other sister, so the girl here is most likely Miriam. Aaron, three years older than Moses (Exodus 7:7), was also a small boy in this house under Pharaoh's order. The sister's quick offer turns the princess into the employer of Moses's own mother, who is now paid to nurse her own son.
And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
King James Version
A Levite woman hides her son for three months, then places him in a coated reed basket beside the river. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter finds the crying Hebrew child and has compassion on him. The sister brings his mother to nurse him for wages. When he grows, he becomes Pharaoh's daughter's son, and she names him Moses. As an adult, Moses sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, kills the Egyptian and hides him in the sand. The next day a Hebrew challenges his authority and mentions the killing. Moses is afraid; when Pharaoh seeks his death, he flees to Midian. At a well he helps seven daughters of the priest of Midian against shepherds and waters their flock. Their father Reuel invites him to eat. Moses stays, marries Zipporah and names their son Gershom, explaining that he has been a stranger in a foreign land. In time the king of Egypt dies, but Israel still groans under bondage. God hears, remembers his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and looks upon the people.
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