Amram and Jochebed are named as his father and mother in Exod. 6:20, but this creates difficult problems (see the commentary on 6:14–25). It may be that the names of Moses’ actual father and mother have been left out in order to avoid confusion with the data given in the official genealogy in Exod. 6. All we know for sure about Moses’ father from Exod. 2:1 is that he was a Levite. . The first hero of our tale is Moses’ mother who, no doubt at considerable risk to herself, hid the baby for three