In the bible who was the sister of Moses who concealed him in the bulrushes?
Moses of Israel. At this time Moses was born to his father Amram, son of Kehath the Levite, who entered Egypt with Jacob's household; his mother was Jochebed (also Yocheved), who was kin to Kehath. Moses had one older (by seven years) sister, Miriam, and one older (by three years) brother, Aaron. The Pharaoh had commanded that all male Hebrew children born would be drowned in the river Nile, but Moses' mother placed him in an ark and concealed the ark in the bulrushes by the riverbank, where the baby was discovered and adopted by Pharaoh's daughter, and raised as an
Ark of bulrushes Ark of bulrushes The ark of bulrushes daubed with asphalt and pitch, in which the infant Moses was laid (Exodus 2:3), is called in the Hebrew תֵּבָה ("tebah", modern "teiva"), a word similar to the Egyptian "teb", meaning "a chest". It is also the same word used for Noah's Ark. The bulrushes ( "gome") were likely to have been papyrus stalks ("Cyperus papyrus"), daubed with bitumen and pitch (which probably refers to the sticky mud of the Nile). The ark containing the three-month-old baby, Moses, was placed in reeds by the river bank (presumably the Nile) to protect him from