$575.00
Parshat Shemot – Original Painting
Acrylic on Canvas Board, 30 x 40 cm
Throughout the ages there have been many representations of the story of Moses in the bulrushes. There have been myriad variations in detail and style. For example, many artists have shown the basket as an “ark” or boat. You can read an extensive and excellent description about how this episode has been depicted by artists throughout history on Wikipedia.
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Here is an excerpt from the story of Moses being found in the bulrushes by Pharaoh’s daughter:
A man of the house of Levi went and married a daughter of Levi. The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw him that he was good, she hid him for three months. When she could no longer hide him, she brought him a reed basket, smeared it with clay and pitch, placed the child into it, and put it into the marsh at the Nile’s edge.
His sister stood afar, to know what would be done to him. Pharaoh’s daughter went down to bathe, to the Nile, and her maidens were walking along the Nile. She saw the basket in the midst of the marsh, and sent her maidservant and she took it. She opened it, and saw him the child, and behold, he was weeping, and she had compassion on him, and she said, “This is of the children of the Hebrews.”
His sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call for you a wet nurse from the Hebrew women, so that she shall nurse the child for you?” Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go!” So the girl went and called the child’s mother.- Exodus Ch 2
For further reading
You can learn much more about the story of Moses in Exodus/Shemot at the excellent and extensive Chabad site here.
And here you can see my other Biblical art from the Book of Exodus.
