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The book of Exodus functions as the sequel to Genesis describing God’s deliverance of the children of Israel and the establishment of a new covenant between God and Israel. The rest of the Old Testament looks back on the exodus of Israel from Egypt as the primary redemptive event in Israel’s history. This primary redemptive event became central to the Hebrew Bible and the New...

2:1–10 These verses rapidly cover Moses’ birth, early life, and marriage. The NIV’s and she became pregnant (v. 2) is unfortunate. Like the “midwives,” the Hebrew וַתֵּלֶד (wattēled) connects Moses’ birth with the תּוֹלְדוֹת (tôldôth) of Genesis. Ironically, the river that meant death to so many infants means life to Moses. Obeying “Pharaoh’s decree in her own way,”1 Moses’ mother placed (וַתָּשֶׂם, wattāśem) the child in a papyrus basket … and coated it with tar and pitch and put [wattāśem] it among
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