Inasmuch as Moses’ pedigree is a lie: his entire personal history might be nought but fable. Nonetheless, the lie all preachers tell about Moses’ birth involves an assertion in Exodus which cannot be proved or debunked by the text of the 'Holy Bible' generally, or by any known Egyptian text of that time, or any scientific means I know of (such as archaeology). In fact, this particular lie isn't even told by Moses. It is simply a misrepresentation of Moses' written text.
In the first chapter of Exodus, Moses says there came a time in the children of Israel's alleged Egyptian sojourn when the Hebrews waxed mighty. While nothing is said in Genesis about the number of servants Jacob had when he made the move to Egypt, it is noted (in Genesis 14:14) that Jacob's grandfather, Abraham, had at least 318 servants (perhaps a sizable city all by themselves, for the time and place) who were not only of fighting age but likewise trained to fight: long before Jacob went to Egypt. [Obviously, Jacob's grandfather Abraham had at least a thousand servants– counting children and women– at the time of the rescue of Lot and the cities of the vale of Siddim which is the subject of Genesis 14.]
Nonetheless, Genesis 46 does say the family of Jacob was seventy souls at the time of the move into Egypt, while Moses alleges in Exodus 12:37 that the family had grown to “about six hundred thousand… men” and children at the time of the exodus. [Perhaps women don't count, as far as Moses is concerned. It's a certainty women don't count as far as Moses’ LORD is concerned.]
At any rate, the population of Egypt became so great that Pharaoh found it worrisome. This is a problem every rancher is acutely aware of. In the vernacular of ranching it's called “over- grazing the land” when the herd becomes too large to be sustained on the number of acres being grazed. If this unsustainable condition persists, the herd is lost and the land is ruined. While Moses’ narrative makes no overt mention of Pharaoh's concern for the land or the people of Egypt, unsustainable population growth is implied by the word of Pharaoh recorded in the last verse of the first chapter of Exodus.
According to the ninth and tenth verses of Exodus, chapter one, Pharaoh's sole concern vis- a- vis the children of Israel, was control- retention. Moses writes, “9 And [Pharaoh] said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.”
Moses alleges, in the verses immediately following verse ten, that Pharaoh then ‘concentrated’ the Hebrews in labor camps: much as Adolf Hitler did in the years of the second World War. Moses also alleges in these verses that said concentration was good for the children of Israel, saying (in verse 12) “But the more [the Egyptians] afflicted [the children of Israel], the more [the children of Israel] multiplied and grew.” Finally, post- partem abortion became necessary to control the baby- boom.
Concerning this practice of post- partem abortion, Moses writes: “15 And the king of Egypt [presumably Pharaoh (however, Joseph once served a Pharaoh as the king of Egypt)] spake to the Hebrew midwives… 16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women… if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.” According to the account Moses provides in the book of Exodus, the midwives rebelled against Pharaoh's abortion mandate. This much the preachers agree with the text of Exodus one on. The lie the preachers tell about Moses' birth concerns the final verse in the first chapter of Exodus.
The twenty- second (and final) verse of Exodus one reads: “And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive [Exodus 1:22].” Much as anti- Semitism is considered anti- Hebrew, without any thought given to the other peoples of Shem: so preachers take the twenty- second verse of Exodus chapter one to concern the Hebrews only. But that's not what the text says. I don't even take it to be what the text of Exodus 1:22 implies.
The overt implication of Exodus 1:22 is that Pharaoh, worried that his land is being over- taxed by the prohibitive number of people sustaining themselves thereon, mandated abortion of all Egyptian males born therein. Pharaoh, according to this verse, charged “all his people” with the mandated abortion of male children. In the earlier verses of the chapter, Pharaoh's people are understood to be the Egyptians– and that separate from the Hebrews.
Nonetheless, when Christian preachers come to the final verse of Exodus twenty- two, they lie and say the abortions targeted by Pharaoh's mandate in Exodus 1:22 are those of the Hebrews’ children only. Anyone who can (and will) read knows better. Perhaps Hebrew children were aborted; but they weren't the only ones who were.
