Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29
Moses is born under the death sentence Pharaoh has pronounced on every Hebrew male infant. His mother hides him three months, the faith of Hebrews 11:23, not fearing the king's commandment. When concealment is no longer possible she makes an ark, a tevah, the same word used for Noah's ark, and places him in the reeds at the river's edge. His sister watches. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe, sees the ark, opens it, sees the child weeping, and takes pity. The daughter of the man commanding the genocide raises the child who will end it.
Moses grows up in Pharaoh's palace. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. He kills the Egyptian. He thinks no one saw. The next day he sees two Hebrews fighting and tries to intervene, and the one doing wrong says: who made you ruler and judge over us? Will you kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses flees to Midian. He sits by a well. Shepherdesses are driven away; he defends them. He settles with Jethro, marries Zipporah, has a son named Gershom: stranger there, because he is a stranger in a foreign land.
And the king of Egypt dies. And the Israelites groan under the slavery and cry out. And God heard, vayyishma. And God remembered, vayyizkor. And God looked, vayyar. And God had respect, vayyeda. Four divine acts of turning toward. Thread 1 is in the four verbs: the God who cannot stop reaching turns toward his people's groaning and begins to move. Thread 2 is in the covenant remembered: what God is about to do is the execution of what he promised Abraham at Genesis 12.
God remembered his covenant: the four verbs of divine attention at chapter's end are the most important verbs in the chapter; God heard, God remembered, God looked, God had respect: four divine acts of turning toward a people who have been groaning for four hundred years.
וַיִּשְׁמַע אֱלֹהִים אֶת נַאֲקָתָם וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּרִיתוֹ (vayyishma Elohim et naaqatam vayyizkor Elohim et berito): God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant: naaqatam (their groaning, from naaq, to groan, to cry out; the groan of people under unbearable weight); vayyizkor (remembered, not that God had forgotten but that the covenant promise now enters into active execution; remembering in biblical Hebrew is remembering-and-acting)
threads t1 · t2 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Hebrews 11:23 · Acts 7:23-29