If a child isn’t safe with his mother, where can he be safe?
Jochebed, an Israelite slave in Egypt, delivers her third child—a son—the same night the midwives are given new orders: Kill all Hebrew baby boys the moment they are born. Kebi manages to hide him for three months, but as he grows it becomes agonizingly clear that is no longer possible.
But what other choice does she have?
Read the first chapter here.
A tiny infant floating in the Nile…who became the man who saw God on the mountaintop and brought down the Ten Commandments. The reluctant leader who brought his people to the gates of the Promised Land. We all know the story of Moses. Less familiar is the story of his mother, Jochebed, an ordinary woman whose extraordinary quick thinking and courageous actions saved the life of her son in a time of great peril. In this intimate and beautifully written portrait of Jochebed, noted author Carole Towriss builds upon the foundations of Scripture and envisions the story behind what we know of Moses, bringing to life his mother and her valiant sacrifice, which gave her son to history and the world.
