Lexicon :: Strong's H4872 - mōšê

When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,[fn] “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

“Who made you a commander and judge over us? ” the man replied. “Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? ”

Then Moses became afraid and thought, “What I did is certainly known.”

Then some shepherds arrived and drove them away, but Moses came to their rescue and watered their flock.

Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro,[fn] the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb,[fn] the mountain of God.

So Moses thought, “I must go over and look at this remarkable sight. Why isn’t the bush burning up? ”

Then he continued, “I am the God of your father,[fn] the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

But Moses asked God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt? ”

Then Moses asked God, “If I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name? ’ what should I tell them? ”

Moses answered, “What if they won’t believe me and will not obey me but say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you’? ”

“Throw it on the ground,” he said. So Moses threw it on the ground, it became a snake, and he ran from it.

But Moses replied to the LORD, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent ​— ​either in the past or recently or since you have been speaking to your servant ​— ​because my mouth and my tongue are sluggish.”[fn]

Then the LORD’s anger burned against Moses, and he said, “Isn’t Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, he is on his way now to meet you. He will rejoice when he sees you.

Then Moses went back to his father-in-law, Jethro, and said to him, “Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still living.”

Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

Now the LORD had said to Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.

Later, Moses and Aaron went in and said to Pharaoh, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival for me in the wilderness.”

The king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why are you causing the people to neglect their work? Get to your labor! ”

When they left Pharaoh, they confronted Moses and Aaron, who stood waiting to meet them.

So Moses went back to the LORD and asked, “Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? And why did you ever send me?

But the LORD replied to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: because of a strong hand he will let them go, and because of a strong hand he will drive them from his land.”

Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their broken spirit and hard labor.

But Moses said in the LORD’s presence, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am such a poor speaker? ”[fn]

Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed,

and she bore him Aaron and Moses.

Amram lived 137 years.

It was this Aaron and Moses whom the LORD told, “Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt according to their military divisions.”

The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.

So Moses and Aaron did this; they did just as the LORD commanded them.

So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hard: He refuses to let the people go.

So the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron: Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt ​— ​over their rivers, canals, ponds, and all their water reservoirs ​— ​and they will become blood. There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers.”