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When the land of Canaan was distributed among the tribes of Israel, the Levites did not receive an inheritance of land their inheritance was the service of God. The Levites later on were selected to be in charge of the religious services of Israel. The text indicates that Moses was from a family of Levites. Moses was born at a time when the oppression of his people had reached a crucial point. Gershom sounds like the Hebrew for an alien there.The birth of Moses was the beginning of the redemption of Israel from their servitude in Egypt.Moses sounds like the Hebrew for draw out.
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25 So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them. 24 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. 22 Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, "I have become an alien in a foreign land." 23 During that long period, the king of Egypt died. "Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat." 21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. He even drew water for us and watered the flock." 20 "And where is he?" he asked his daughters. 18 When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, "Why have you returned so early today?" 19 They answered, "An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. 17 Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock. 16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock. He asked the one in the wrong, "Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?" 14 The man said, "Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid and thought, "What I did must have become known." 15 When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well. 13 The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. 12 Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. She named him Moses, saying, "I drew him out of the water." 11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. 10 When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son. 9 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you." So the woman took the baby and nursed him. And the girl went and got the baby's mother. 7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?" 8 "Yes, go," she answered. "This is one of the Hebrew babies," she said. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it. 5 Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the river bank. 4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. 3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. Bible Gateway Exodus 2 :: NIV Exodus 2 1 Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, 2 and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son.