Category:Jochebed

Jochebed was the mother of Moses, who hid him in a basket in the bulrushes. Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes in a basket sometimes referred to the ark of bulrushes in Exodus 2:1-9. Jochebed nursed and raised Moses and took him back to Pharaoh's daughter, who adopted him.

2:1. After this there went a man of the house of Levi; and took a wife of his own kindred.

2:2. She conceived, and bore a son: and seeing him a goodly child, hid him three months.

2:3. When she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's edge,

2:4. His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done.

'''2:5. Behold, the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself in the river: and her maids walked by the river's edge. When she saw the basket in the sedges she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was brought,'''

2:6. She opened it, and seeing within it an infant crying, having compassion on it, she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews.

2:7. The child's sister said to her: Shall I go, and call to you a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe?

'''2:8. She answered, "Go." The maid went and called her mother.'''

'''2:9. Pharaoh's daughter said to her: Take this child, and nurse him for me: I will give you your wages. The woman took and nursed the child: and when he was grown up, she delivered him to Pharaoh's daughter.'''

2:10. She adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: "Because I took him out of the water."

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---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Jochebed - Jehovah is her glory, the wife of Amram, and the mother of Miriam, Aaron, and Moses (Numbers 26:59). She is spoken of as the sister of Kohath, Amram's father (Exodus 6:20; compare Exodus 6:16, 18; Exodus 2:1).