“And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go” (The Bible, KJV. 10.9). Unyielding in the face of his enemy, Moses stands before Pharaoh, refusing to leave behind those that God promised to free from the wrath of the Egyptians. The two of them clash head-to-head as Pharaoh seeks to oppress the Israelites, while Moses seeks to liberate them. As Moses encounters Pharaoh’s stubborn resolve, he stands firm abiding with God’s orders. With God by his side, Moses eventually leads the Israelites to the fruitful promised land, releasing them from the cruel clutches of Pharaoh and the Egyptians. This is one of the reasons why critics and theologians often …show more content…
Pharaoh, threatened by the ever-growing population of the Israelites, commands the midwives to kill any Israelite son that is born, while allowing the daughters to remain. This attempt to supress the population of these people was thwarted as “the midwives feared God, and did not [do] as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive” (1.17) instead. Likewise, Moses’s own mother defies Pharaoh’s law by hiding Moses for three months after his birth, shielding him from the inhumane command enacted by the ruler. When she is unable to further hide Moses, she put him in “an ark of bulrushes… in the flags by the river’s brink” (2.3), rather than killing him. Pharaoh’s own daughter then stumbles upon Moses near the river, and decides to raise him, knowing full well that it was against her father’s wishes. This act of resistance by these women shows that not only the Israelites recognize how heinous Pharaoh’s rule is, but even some of the Egyptians, like his daughter, realize it. It is perfect condition for a revolution to stir, and with regards to the manner in which Moses was born and raised, in the midst of resistance, he certainly seems suitable to be a revolutionary