Moses

Saved from the water

Saved from the water; Moses was the biblical prophet who received the ten commandments, led the oppressed Jewish people out of Egypt, and founded Israel. He was born in ancient Egypt in the town of Goshen. Just before his birth, Pharaoh had ordered that all male Hebrew infants be put to death. Moses'' mother placed him in a basket made of papyrus and set it floating on the Nile, where it was found by Pharaoh''s daughter, who raised Moses as her own child.