The Birth of Moses
On the seventh of Adar, 2368, Moses is born; hidden in a basket on the Nile, he is saved by Pharaoh's daughter and raised in the palace of the man who sought his death.
Amram and Yocheved are together again, and a son is born. His mother saw that he was good and hid him for three months. He had been born prematurely, at the end of the sixth month, so the Egyptians who counted the pregnancies came searching three months too late. When hiding became impossible, Yocheved made an ark of papyrus, sealed it with pitch and set it among the reeds at the edge of the Nile, while Miriam stood at a distance to see what would happen. Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe, saw the basket, heard the crying and understood at once: this is one of the Hebrew children. She defied her own father's decree. Miriam stepped forward and offered to find a nurse, and brought the baby's own mother. Moses spent his first years with Yocheved, knowing who he was, and was then taken into the palace. Grown, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens — the sentence on which his whole life turns.