A Child Is Born

Jochebed cradles the newborn Moses while his father watches tenderly beside the woven basket prepared for the child. The quiet family moment points to the opening of Exodus, when a Hebrew mother hid her son during Pharaoh’s command against Israel’s male infants. The basket beside them foreshadows the ark of bulrushes that would carry Moses upon the Nile, where God’s providence preserved him for a future calling as Israel’s deliverer. This artwork emphasizes the faith of Moses’ parents, the sanctity of life, and the hidden beginnings of God’s redemptive work through a helpless child.