Some of the Jews who loved and feared God would not obey the wicked order, and among these was a mother called Jochebed who had a very beautiful baby called Moses.
The very best way when we want to do anything very difficult is to tell God about it, and ask Him to help us. So this Jewish mother did; and then she made a strong basket of bulrushes, over which she put pitch to keep out the water, and then laid her sweet baby in it, and laid the cradle in the bulrushes on the river bank, sending his little sister Miriam to watch him as well as she could.
Think of the greedy crocodiles who might have come up from the river and have eaten little Moses up!
THE FINDING OF MOSES.
But God's loving care was over him and he did not get any harm.
By and by the daughter of Pharaoh came down to the river to bathe; and God sent her to the very spot where little Moses lay crying in his basket.
THE DAUGHTER OF PHARAOH CAME DOWN TO THE RIVER TO BATHE.
The Princess felt very sorry for the little baby, and guessed it must belong to one of the poor Jews who were ordered to throw their boys into the river. So she told her maids to take up the babe; and just as they did so, little Miriam, who was not more than twelve years old, came up to see what would happen to her little brother.