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When this project did not take effect, Pharaoh gave public orders to all his people to drown all the male children of the Hebrews, Ex 1:22. We may suppose it was made highly penal for any to know of the birth of a son to an Israelite, and not to give information to those who were appointed to throw him into the river. Note, The enemies of the church have been restless in their endeavours to wear out the saints of the Most High, Da 7:25. But he that sits in heaven shall laugh at them. See Ps 2:4.
Exodus-2
The Birth of Moses
1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a
daughter of Levi.
2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him
that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
Moses was a Levite, both by father and mother. Jacob left Levi under marks of disgrace (Ge 49:5); and yet, soon after, Moses appears a descendant from him, that he might typify Christ, who came in the likeness of sinful flesh and was made a curse for us. This tribe began to be distinguished from the rest by the birth of Moses, as afterwards it became remarkable in many other instances. Observe, concerning this newborn infant,
How he was hidden. It seems to have been just at the time of his birth that the cruel law was made for the murder of all the male children of the Hebrews; and many, no doubt, perished by the execution of it. The parents of Moses had Miriam and Aaron, both older than he, born to them before this edict came out, and had nursed them without that peril: but those that begin the world in peace know not what troubles they may meet with before they have got through it. Probably the mother of Moses was full of anxiety in the expectation of his birth, now that this edict was in force, and was ready to say, Blessed are the barren that never bore, Lu 23:29. Better so