Jesus Quotes

-Kathleen Basi

Marriage has been the foundation of every successful society from antiquity. There is no society at any time in any place that did not rest on the union of men and women to insure the future of the society and family. Marriage...

Marriage has been the foundation of every successful society from antiquity. There is no society at any time in any place that did not rest on the union of men and women to insure the future of the society and family. Marriage…

Exodus 2:10 Moses. In Hebrew, the name sounds like the verb mashah, “to draw out.” The name may also be related to the common Egyptian word for “son.” Since Pharaoh’s daughter clearly knows that Moses is a Hebrew child (vv. 6–9), it is possible that she chose the name for both its Hebrew (“drawn out of water”) and Egyptian (“son”) senses. The irony of such a dual reference would be that her action not only prefigures but is also a part of the means that God uses to “draw” Israel as his “son” out of Egypt (Hos. 11:1).