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Moses, Leader of God’s People Presented by Sermons 4 Kids Featuring the art of Henry Martin * When Pharaoh was the King of Egypt, he feared the children of Jacob, who were now called Israelites. “The Israelites are growing too strong,” he said, “If there is a war, they may fight against us and defeat us.” To keep this from happening, Pharaoh made them into slaves and forced them to do hard work. But no matter how hard their work became, the Israelites continued to grow in number, so he passed a cruel law ordering all baby boys born to Israelite parents to be drowned in the Nile. It happened that a baby boy was born to an Israelite family. His mother knew that she had to do something to save him. She made a large basket out of the reeds that grew near the river. She sealed it with sticky tar so that it would float. Then she put the baby in the basket and put it in the river near the bank. His sister, Miriam, stood at a distance and watched over the baby. That evening, Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the river to bathe. She noticed the strange basket floating in the river. “Fetch that basket,” she said to her servant girl. When she saw the baby boy, she loved him. Miriam came out of hiding and asked her, “Would you like for me to get an Israelite woman to take care of the baby?” “Yes, I would,” answered the princess. Miriam ran back home and told her mother everything that had happened. Then she took her mother back with her to meet Pharaoh’s daughter. “Take care of the baby and bring him back to me when he is older,” the princess said. The baby’s mother was joyful to be reunited with her baby and to know that he would be safe. When the child became older, his mother took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses saying, “I drew him out of the water.” Moses learned much as he grew up in the palace of Pharaoh . Even though he grew up in an Egyptian palace, Moses knew he was an Israelite by birth. One day he saw an Egyptian beating