Moses

Moses was, according to an account in the Biblical book of Exodus, the leader of the Israelites who led them out of Egypt to Israel as God commanded. Moses is viewed as the greatest prophet of Judaism and as a major prophet in Christianity and Islam.

Childhood

Moses was the son of Amram of the tribe of Levi and his wife Jochebed. After the reigning pharaoh had ordered all the Hebrew male babies to be drowned in the Nile, Jochebed gave birth to Moses and kept him concealed. After a few months it was no longer practical to conceal Moses and so set him adrift in a small ark on the Nile. While Miriam, Moses's sister watched from afar, one of the pharaoh's daughter's came to the river and seeing the child took him from the river and brought him to be raised in the pharoah's house.