She found the baby and decided to take him home and raise him as her own son, naming  him Moses, meaning, "I drew you out of the water."  Miriam came out of hiding and told Pharaoh’s daughter that she knew a good nursemaid for the baby.  This was Jochabed - Moses' own  mother.        

Moses lived happily in the palace of the Pharaoh but he saw the suffering of the Israelites and felt sorry for them.  One day  when he saw an Egyptian taskmaster beating a slave, he got angry and killed the taskmaster.  Moses now had to run away from Egypt.  He fled to Midian where he became a shepherd.

One day, while he was looking after his sheep, he heard a voice calling him from a bush.  He looked up and saw that although the bush was on fire, the flames did not consume it.  This miracle was a sign to Moses that the voice was God’s.

God told Moses to go back to Egypt and lead the Israelites to freedom.  Moses had little confidence in his ability to do this, but he went back to Egypt and gained the support of his brother Aaron. Together, they went to Pharaoh and demanded the freedom of the Jews.  Pharaoh refused and worked the slaves even harder. 

The Bible tells us that God assisted Moses in his efforts by imposing terrible plagues upon the Egyptians.  With each one Pharaoh relented, but as soon as the

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