Exodus 1-4

Health and Medicine:
In traditional cultures births are usually attended only by women. A midwife is a woman with experience and training who can assist at births, recognize complications and so forth. The most widespread practice: ancient and modern, is for mothers to deliver in a sitting position with a support like a birthstool (Exodus 1:16)

Israel's Suffering in Egypt (1:1-22)

Moses Is Born (2:1-10)
The birth of Moses resembles a familiar theme in the ancient Near Eastern folklore: the exposure of an infant son, and his subsequent ascent to a position of royalty. One of the most famous versions of this theme is the birth legend of Sargon of Accad, a ruler in central Mesopotamia around 2350 B.C. According to the story, Sargon was born to a high priestess and an unknown father. Sargon's birth was kept secret, and his mother set him in a basket among bulrushes, where he was found by a drawer of water. From these humble beginnings, Sargon is said to have been granted the love of Ishtar, the goddess of love and war. The goddess's love is regarded as a token of Sargon's title to the throne. The apparent similarities between the Sargon and Moses birth accounts, though fascinating, are nevertheless superficial.

Moses Flees to Midian (2:11-15)
Moses In Midian (2:16-25)

Within the official boundaries of the Egyptian empire, in Palestine and the arid Sinai Peninsula lived a diverse group called the midianites. These people appeared sometime around the 13th century B.C. and were known as traders (Gen. 37:36) and metalworkers. Less clearly known is their religion, but there is some evidence that they worshiped in tent shrines in the desert. The tabernacle that moses was commanded to build (Ex. 26) may be related to Midianite practices. Moses' father-in-law Reuel (Ex. 2:18) was, after all, a priest of Midian. Elsewhere the names Jethro (Ex. 3:1) and Hobab (Judges 4:11) are also given for the father-in-law of Moses. Exodus 2:16-6:30

Moses At The Burning Bush (3:1-22)

Miraculous Signs for Pharaoh (4:1-17)
Among the objections Moses raised against his going to Pharaoh (Ex. 3:11) was that he considered himself "slow of speech and slow of tongue" (Ex. 4:10). In the Hebrew languale this condition is expressed literally as "heavy of mouth" and "heavy of tongue." Moses' difficulties in speech are not unprecedented in ancient Near Eastern literature. History records a Sumerian King of Uruk named Enmerkar, is the main character of Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, an epic written in sumerian near the end of the 3rd millennium B.C. In the breif passage, a messenger is unable to comprehend a message given to him by Enmerkar, and thus unable to verbally deliver it. Like Moses, Enmerkar was "slow in Speech," expressed in the epic as "heavy of mouth." Therefore, the king of Uruk invented writing by putting the message on a piece of clay.

Moses Goes to Egypt (4:18-33)

I am truly inspired by the story of Moses. Even though he argued with God about what was being requested of him to do. He yielded and was used in many miraculous ways to bring God's chosen people into the land they were promised to have. What a blessing it is to be used by God as a vessel for his glory.
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