Drawn out

“When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, ‘I drew him out of the water.’”

Exodus 2:10 (NIV)

THE QUESTION

Pharaoh’s daughter found a baby boy in a basket among the reeds of the Nile and later raised him as her son. What did she say his name, Moses, meant?

A) Laughter

B) Asked of God

C) God hears

D) Drawn out ✓

A closer look

Pharaoh’s daughter found the baby in a basket among the reeds of the Nile (Exodus 2:5-6). The name she gave him sounds like the Hebrew for “draw out,” and it fit God’s plan perfectly. Years later, the baby drawn out of the water led God’s people out of Egypt and through the sea on dry ground (Exodus 14:21-22).

If you picked another answer, you were close: each one explains another baby’s name in the Bible. Isaac’s is tied to laughter (Genesis 21:6), Samuel’s to Hannah’s prayer (1 Samuel 1:20), and Ishmael’s means “God hears” (Genesis 16:11).

In today’s verse, God promises that same Moses: “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest” (Exodus 33:14).

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