ScriptureExodus 2:3 (NIV)“But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket forhim and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it andput it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.”DevotionalAfter Pharaoh orders every Hebrew baby boy to be thrown into the Nile,a Levite woman named Jochebed gives birth to a son—Moses. She hideshim for three months, protecting him...

ScriptureExodus 1:17 (NIV)“But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypthad told them to do; they let the boys live.”DevotionalIn Exodus 1, the Israelites are enslaved in Egypt, and Pharaoh fears theirgrowing population. To stop them, he commands two Hebrewmidwives—Shiphrah and Puah—to kill every baby boy born to Hebrewwomen. As attendants at childbirth, they stood in the space...

ScriptureMark 5:25-26, 42 (ESV)“And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who hadsuffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse”“ 42  And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement.DevotionalIn Mark 5, one woman had...