Theme: Godly civil disobedience

Exegetical Note
The story of the Pharoah's ineffective plot to decimate the burgeoning Hebrew population by killing its newborn males is a tale of the godliness, courage, and cleverness of a series of "powerless" women in the face of abused political authority. The omitted verses here (15-21) tell of first the Jewish midwives who refuse to cooperate. Then Moses' mother and sister conspire successfully to save him. Even Pharoah's daughter, out of sheer human compassion, knowingly defies her father's cruel o…