Did he know...

You know how moses killed the Egyptian for the way he was treating one of His kin?

It makes me wonder if He knew he, himself, too was a Hebrew, a Levite or if He would have responded that way with anyone on the receiving end of such repulsive oppression?

It says all in the account in the Word. We are discussing the Bible here, but it must be read first in order to do so...…..Go to Exodus, and you will see clearly how Moses struck the Egyptian because the Egyptian was mistreating his people, Israel.

You know how moses killed the Egyptian for the way he was treating one of His kin?

It makes me wonder if He knew he, himself, too was a Hebrew, a Levite or if He would have responded that way with anyone on the receiving end of such repulsive oppression?

You know how moses killed the Egyptian for the way he was treating one of His kin?

It makes me wonder if He knew he, himself, too was a Hebrew, a Levite or if He would have responded that way with anyone on the receiving end of such repulsive oppression?

Acts 7 appears to indicate that Moses knew the Hebrews were his brethren.

Acts 7:

20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:

21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:

25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.



As dcontrovsal pointed out, Moses was nursed by his own mother

Although we do not know how long Moses was with his mother, I believe Moses knew he was Hebrew.



Hebrews 11:24 indicates Moses refused to be called the son of pharaohs’ daughter.

I believe he knew.....................the reason being is because it was the mother of Moses that was his nurse maid and they usually nursed a child from 3 to 7 years......note the bolded....

Exodus 2:1-8: Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. But when she could hide him o longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him. Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the river bank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it. She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said. Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?” “Yes, go,” she answered. And the girl went and got the baby’s mother. Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took and the baby and nursed him. 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.”

I think it was an example of what he was to become. A liberator of his people from the whip of their earthly masters.
And yet in Exodus 2:13 Moses behaves differently when he encounters two Hebrews in disagreement that results in violence of one upon another.
Moses was no longer considered Pharaoh's son when he killed the Egyptian murderer. As an overseer of the Hebrew slaves that man would have killed any number of them. And at that time, Moses wasn't aware of the Hebrew God's commands concerning murder. Which did exist prior to Sinai.
Ever wonder why Pharaoh would have Moses put to death for being a Hebrew and killing an Egyptian, but God didn't hold murder as a Hebrew of an Egyptian slave master against Moses?
Because Moses wasn't under the law as yet.

Moses looked left and right to see if anyone was looking, then killed him, then buried him in the sand. He thought perhaps no one knew.

Then he got caught, they knew! Exodus 2:14ff.

When he saw Hebrew fighting Hebrew, he tried to stop the fight. Obviously he didn't try to stop the Egyptian beating the Hebrew in the same manner.

It is possible that the Hebrew he spared from the beating was either one of these 2 or at the least one of the 2 were told by the one he saved. Word spread quick, even without internet!

you have me pondering....it would make sense since it was made clear he looked first, and saw no one, so how else would they have known, huh? I never considered that before.

Bamidy Bam, thank you, especially knowing that they nursed for that long. That says a lot. I just guess that Pharaoh would have wanted Moses's true roots to be omitted from his knowing. After all, he thought them beneath him.

Here's a question that's asked not that often.

Why did the Israelite's Exodus, freedom from Egyptian slavery, require destruction of the Egyptians when God's laws unto the Hebrews entailed the edict, thou shalt not murder? Even before Sinai.

Love this, thanks for cross the references. Very helpful.

Because the destruction of the Egyptians was not murder.

Quantrill

Here's a question that's asked not that often.

Why did the Israelite's Exodus, freedom from Egyptian slavery, require destruction of the Egyptians when God's laws unto the Hebrews entailed the edict, thou shalt not murder? Even before Sinai.

I was just studying Exodus 2 and read that and wondered if he was told by Pharoah's daughter...

Here's a question that's asked not that often.

Why did the Israelite's Exodus, freedom from Egyptian slavery, require destruction of the Egyptians when God's laws unto the Hebrews entailed the edict, thou shalt not murder? Even before Sinai.