Miriam: Prophetess & Great Leader

In the days when a Pharaoh hostile to Israel ruled Egypt, a daughter was born to a man from the house of Levi named Aram whose wife was Jochebed. Because the Israelites were proliferating in numbers, and were becoming a threat to Egypt. Pharaoh's edict was that all male children should be destroyed but female children should be spared. Jochebed had a male child whom she perceived to be very special, ‘goodly', ‘proper', ‘special' (Exod. 2:2; Heb.11:23). The mother made a special waterproof container and slipped it into the river Nile. Miriam bravely watched for what was to happen and when Pharaoh's daughter decided to save Moses, she presented herself and suggested that Jochebed should be the wet nurse-no small feat. In this way she saved Moses. Doubtless as the child grew-perhaps the couple of years to the time of weaningMiriam would have cared for, trained And taught her brother Moses.