A god asked Puah to kill. That went against her faith. Her own God asked her to walk away. That went against her calling.Until she is ordered by Pharaoh to kill newborn Hebrew males, Puah thought she had an easy profession. If she obeys, it means the deaths of untold innocents. If she doesn’t, it means her death.As Pharaohs rise and fall, Puah’s people are forced into deeper oppression. Men are … people are forced into deeper oppression. Men are forced labor and women are sent to serve their Egyptian counterparts. Only Puah and her recently acquired guild are free. For now.
Moses, one of the hidden babies who was adopted by the Princess, is being groomed to take over. When he denies his right to rule and mistakenly kills an Egyptian, he is forced to flee into the desert.Forty years later, he returns as the instrument of God.
With her medical training and passion for helping pregnant women, Puah places herself in the heart of hell on earth as the intensity of plagues increases. After the last plague falls, she must make the decision to stay in Egypt or face the unknown wilderness. Puah’s heart has always been for the women of Egypt.
How can she obey God to walk away from them in their greatest hour of need? She can only make the choice once and morning won’t wait.
Follow the faith journey of this brave woman in Book 1 of the Faith Finders Series, “Midwives of Moses.”
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I enjoyed this glimpse into a time in history that we all know but this was from a different view point, the midwives. It is bound to be hard to take an event that everyone knows and make it new. Jennifer Jennings has done this with this book. She brings Moses, Shiphrah and Pauh to life. Until I read the notes at the end of the book I did not realize/know that the Bible doesn’t mention the names of the Pharaohs but does mention the two midwives. I enjoyed this book.
Midwives of Moses, my first read from Christian author Jenifer Jennings. A well-written expansion of the Biblical tale of Moses from the perspective of the midwives. I’ll be reading more by this author, especially since I just went out & discovered that I own two more of the books in the series! (RIP Marley January 20, 2014 – July 24, 2018).
n Midwives of Moses, author Jenifer Jennings spins a delightful and original point-of-view tale concerning the well-known biblical story of Moses, located in the books of Genesis and Exodus in the Bible.
Jennings’ fictional account is written from the perspective of the two midwives mentioned in Exodus at the time of baby Moses’ birth, Shiphrah and Puah. In an attempt to thwart the increasing numbers of Israelites being born into captivity in Egypt (hoping to forestall a possible future uprising), Pharoah orders the two Hebrew midwives to throw all male babies born into the Nile River upon their birth. This places the Hebrew midwives into quite the predicament, as their first allegiance is to God and to bringing life into the world, not taking it away.
Jennings’ story walks us through the imaginative approach Moses’ mother takes to get around Pharoah’s edict, through the time of Moses’ life and ending with the Israelites dramatic escape through the Red Sea. Readers have the pleasure of reading about the midwives’ experiences as they straddle their allegiances to God, Egypt, and to women in general during an era when women, their needs and opinions, were not considered high priority historically. This account was written respectfully and was well-researched.
Midwives of Moses
Jenifer Jennings
Shiphrah and Puah both midwives in Egypt were summoned to appear before Pharaoh. They were ordered to kill all the Hebrew babies. Months later they were summed again and asked the women did they take him as a fool, because he heard the number of boys were growing, he then said that All Hebrews are to throw their newborn sons into the Nile.
Both women still try to save the babies, they send them away and to hide the idea of the mothers throwing them in the Nile they wrap up a bit of meat into the cloth and toss that into the river.
One woman named Jochebed refuses to send her son away. She hides him for months until one day she made a basket with the strongest bulrushes She could find. She wove them tight and pitched the outside so water would not leak inside. She then placed the basket into the Nile and set it to float. It is seen by the princess and she has one of her maidens fetch it and they discovered the baby. Moses sister watched as they pulled the child out, she tells the princess that she needs a wet nurse for the baby Moses and is sent to get one for her. She returned to her mother and tells her she is needed to feed the baby and the princess pays the woman to feed her baby.
This is the story of how God freed his people from slavery with the help of Moses.
I enjoyed reading this story. You see how the midwives helped all women give birth to their children. Even though these women were Hebrews they cared for all the women and babies. The hardships they suffered.
Wonderful story. Religious, heartfelt story.
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