July 12, 2010 – Exodus 2

Well, my family tree has a bit of a gap now.  There is no lineage through this period of slavery.  We know that Joseph and his generation has died.  I have heard that 400 years of slavery took place before Moses, but that isn’t listed here.  We know that Moses comes from the Levites, but we don’t know his parent’s names. 

And if you ever watch a movie about Moses, “The Ten Commandments” or “Prince of Egypt”, they spend a long time with Moses’ background and growing up and his relationship with Ramses.  We see that they take a lot of liberties because Moses is born, grows up, flees, gets married, and has children in one chapter.