And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
The marriage recorded here united a man of Levi with a daughter of Levi, Amram with Jochebed, both devout Israelites of the same tribe. Their son Moses was born while Pharaoh's cruel decree to kill the Hebrew boy babies and put all Hebrew male children to death was in force. His parents believed Israel's release was near and that God would raise up a deliverer, so in strong faith they trusted God to preserve their child and were not afraid to disobey the king's command.
His mother hid him as long as she safely could, then entrusted him to God in a small waterproofed ark of bulrushes at the river watched by Miriam. God preserved the child and guided Pharaoh's daughter to find him, and when Miriam received permission to find a nurse she brought his own mother, who could then care for him without fear. The Lord guided all the transactions while the heavenly host watched with interest.
He spent his early life among his Hebrew kindred, nursed and educated by his mother Jochebed in a lowly cabin home in Goshen where home and school were one and loving father and mother themselves instructed the child. His first twelve years, chiefly through her faithful influence, laid the foundation of his character and later greatness. That home training joined thoughts of God to daily life, telling God's mighty works in delivering His people with reverence and impressing His providence, the future life, and the true, the good, and the beautiful. Lessons were illustrated by figures and symbols that fixed them in memory and taught thinking, feeling, and hoping beyond things seen and transitory to the unseen and eternal.
She taught him reverence for God, truth, justice, love and loyalty to God, and the sinfulness of idolatry, linking his soul with heaven. She trained his mind to see God in revelation and nature so that stars, trees, flowers, mountains, brooks, and the voices of the prophets heard throughout the land spoke to him and met a response in his heart. Such training made Israelite youth vigorous in body and mind, quick to perceive and strong to act, with heart prepared like good ground for growth.
Knowing her child must soon pass beyond her care to the guardianship of those who knew not God and to be raised at court, she the more earnestly endeavored to implant love and loyalty to God. She believed he had been preserved for an important work and prayed he would be kept from corrupting influences. The work was faithfully accomplished so that the principles of truth that were the burden of her teaching and the lesson of her life no after-influence could induce him to renounce. Her influence reached through his whole future life and shaped him to become the deliverer of Israel and its leader with a great mission.
His mother, a humble enslaved Hebrew woman living as an exile and slave, brought greater blessing to the world through her motherhood than any other woman save Mary of Nazareth, and the verse thus proves the unequal importance of the work of the Christian mother. The verse's family history illustrates that a mother's influence can shape character from the earliest years and is especially powerful in that period, while fathers also share a solemn duty to guide and restrain children especially as they grow older. To a very great extent she holds the destiny of her children in her hands, dealing with developing minds and characters not for time only but for eternity, sowing seed that will spring up and bear fruit for good or evil and impressing the image of the divine upon a human soul rather than painting beauty on canvas or chiseling it from marble.
During their early years the responsibility of forming character rests upon her, impressions made upon developing minds remain through life, and parents must direct instruction and training while children are very young to make them Christians, training them not as heirs to an earthly throne but as kings unto God to reign through unending ages. Every mother's moments are priceless because her work will be tested in the solemn day of accounts, when many failures and crimes will be found to have resulted from ignorance and neglect of those whose duty was to guide childish feet in the right way. Many who blessed the world with genius and truth and holiness will be found to owe the mainspring principles of their influence and success to a praying Christian mother.
The verse shows that the Bible deals with most minute details as well as the greatest affairs of life, and the same divine Instructor who guided the portraying of the prophetic records of Revelation and the history of the life of Christ and of His condemnation and crucifixion guided the tracing of this anxious mother's story. It is placed on record that all actions are seen by Him and by the heavenly angels.
The marriage recorded here united a man of Levi with a daughter of Levi, Amram with Jochebed, both devout Israelites of the same tribe. Their son Moses was born while Pharaoh's cruel decree to kill the Hebrew boy babies and put all Hebrew male children to death was in force. His parents believed Israel's release was near and that God would raise up a deliverer, so in strong faith they trusted God to preserve their child and were not afraid to disobey the king's command.
His mother hid him as long as she safely could, then entrusted him to God in a small waterproofed ark of bulrushes at the river watched by Miriam. God preserved the child and guided Pharaoh's daughter to find him, and when Miriam received permission to find a nurse she brought his own mother, who could then care for him without fear. The Lord guided all the transactions while the heavenly host watched with interest.
He spent his early life among his Hebrew kindred, nursed and educated by his mother Jochebed in a lowly cabin home in Goshen where home and school were one and loving father and mother themselves instructed the child. His first twelve years, chiefly through her faithful influence, laid the foundation of his character and later greatness. That home training joined thoughts of God to daily life, telling God's mighty works in delivering His people with reverence and impressing His providence, the future life, and the true, the good, and the beautiful. Lessons were illustrated by figures and symbols that fixed them in memory and taught thinking, feeling, and hoping beyond things seen and transitory to the unseen and eternal.
She taught him reverence for God, truth, justice, love and loyalty to God, and the sinfulness of idolatry, linking his soul with heaven. She trained his mind to see God in revelation and nature so that stars, trees, flowers, mountains, brooks, and the voices of the prophets heard throughout the land spoke to him and met a response in his heart. Such training made Israelite youth vigorous in body and mind, quick to perceive and strong to act, with heart prepared like good ground for growth.
Knowing her child must soon pass beyond her care to the guardianship of those who knew not God and to be raised at court, she the more earnestly endeavored to implant love and loyalty to God. She believed he had been preserved for an important work and prayed he would be kept from corrupting influences. The work was faithfully accomplished so that the principles of truth that were the burden of her teaching and the lesson of her life no after-influence could induce him to renounce. Her influence reached through his whole future life and shaped him to become the deliverer of Israel and its leader with a great mission.
His mother, a humble enslaved Hebrew woman living as an exile and slave, brought greater blessing to the world through her motherhood than any other woman save Mary of Nazareth, and the verse thus proves the unequal importance of the work of the Christian mother. The verse's family history illustrates that a mother's influence can shape character from the earliest years and is especially powerful in that period, while fathers also share a solemn duty to guide and restrain children especially as they grow older. To a very great extent she holds the destiny of her children in her hands, dealing with developing minds and characters not for time only but for eternity, sowing seed that will spring up and bear fruit for good or evil and impressing the image of the divine upon a human soul rather than painting beauty on canvas or chiseling it from marble.
During their early years the responsibility of forming character rests upon her, impressions made upon developing minds remain through life, and parents must direct instruction and training while children are very young to make them Christians, training them not as heirs to an earthly throne but as kings unto God to reign through unending ages. Every mother's moments are priceless because her work will be tested in the solemn day of accounts, when many failures and crimes will be found to have resulted from ignorance and neglect of those whose duty was to guide childish feet in the right way. Many who blessed the world with genius and truth and holiness will be found to owe the mainspring principles of their influence and success to a praying Christian mother.
The verse shows that the Bible deals with most minute details as well as the greatest affairs of life, and the same divine Instructor who guided the portraying of the prophetic records of Revelation and the history of the life of Christ and of His condemnation and crucifixion guided the tracing of this anxious mother's story. It is placed on record that all actions are seen by Him and by the heavenly angels.