WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -To save her son’s life, she waterproofed a basket and put the child in it. Jochebed placed Moses in a basket and released him in the flow of River Nile. The basket fell in the hands of the Pharaoh’s daughter who was bathing in the river. Moved with compassion when she discovered the child, she decided to adopt him.

Detailed explanation-2: -When she saw that her son was good, she thought not of herself. Instead she thought to protect the child at great risk to herself. She hid the baby for three months in defiance of Pharaoh’s edict. Moses’ mother is a direct counterexample to Adam and Eve.

Detailed explanation-3: -Muslims identify her with Asiya, the Great Royal Wife of the pharaoh. In either version, she saved Moses from certain death from both the Nile river and from the Pharaoh.

Detailed explanation-4: -An Israelite mother named Jochebed thought of a way to save her newborn son. She put her baby in a basket and hid the basket in the tall grass by the Nile River. The baby’s sister Miriam watched over him to keep him safe.

Detailed explanation-5: -The mother prepared a good water-resistant basket that could not sink; she actually placed Moses among the reeds on the bank of the river. She did not abandon him and return home, but she did something to ensure his safety; she placed his sister at a distance to keep watch over the child.