{"id":251,"date":"2008-05-28T12:39:35","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T12:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2008\/05\/whos-your-momma.html"},"modified":"2008-05-28T12:39:35","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T12:39:35","slug":"whos-your-momma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2008\/05\/whos-your-momma.html","title":{"rendered":"Down by the Riverside (p1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&quot;Then Pharaoh&#039;s daughter went down to the Nile river to bathe&#8230;&quot;&#160; (Ex. 2.5)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She went down to the river to bath.&#160; Doesn&#039;t that seem odd to you?<\/p>\n<p>Pharaoh&#039;s daugther, raised in royalty, was bathing in the NILE river?&#160; Why would she do that!?<\/p>\n<p>Sure bathing in the Nile was normal practice but it seems to me that given the circumstances she would have changed her routine.&#160; She could have had her servants bring water to her in the palace instead of wading in the waters of the Nile&#8230;<em><strong>with all of the bodies of the dead babies floating nearby.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pharoah had come up with a plan to exterminate the Hebrew slaves.&#160; He gave the order, &quot;Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile&#8230;&quot; (Ex. 1.22)&#160; Within a generation the Hebrew slaves would be no more.<\/p>\n<p>Could this be why Pharoah&#039;s daughter was down by the riverside wading in the water?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Then Pharaoh&#039;s daughter went down to the Nile river to bathe&#8230;&quot;&#160; (Ex. 2.5) She went down to the river to bath.&#160; Doesn&#039;t that seem odd to you? 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