![]() ![]() Later, Moses' sister Miriam told Bithiah that she was his sister, and she advised that she hire a Hebrew servant to take care of the child Miriam had Bithiah hire Jochebed, who, unbeknownst to Bithiah, was Moses' birth mother. ![]() Moses was found by the Egyptian princess Bithiah as she was bathing in the Nile, and Bithiah took Moses in as her own son, naming him. As a newborn, he was placed in a basket and sent down the Nile River by his mother, as Pharaoh Ramesses I had ordered the killing of every newborn Israelite child to prevent a Jewish prophecy (that one of the Jewish newborns would go on to lead the Israelites out of slavery) from coming true. Moses was born in Goshen, Egypt in 1571 BC, the son of Amram and Jochebed, and the younger brother of Aaron and Miriam. ![]()
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