Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Nile

In the image of the Red Sea and Nile River shown above, several features are also labeled. The delta of the Nile River is prominent on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, above Cairo, Egypt. The fertility of the Nile Delta and the banks of the Nile River provided stable agriculture for the Egyptian civilization of the Pyramids and the Pharoahs. To the south of the broad green Nile River valley is the dark water of Lake Nasser, formed by the Aswan High Dam. The reduction of sediments in the Nile north of the river, due to trapping of the sediments in Lake Nasser behind the Aswan dam, is one reason that the Nile River delta is slowly sinking.The Nile, in Africa, is one of the two longest rivers on Earth.

The word "Nile" ('nIl) comes from the word Neilos (Νειλος), a Greek name for the Nile. Another Greek name for the Nile was Aigyptos (Αιγυπτος), which itself is the source of the name "Egypt."
The birth of Moses
1 Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, 2and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. 3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. 4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

5 Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the river bank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it. 6 She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. "This is one of the Hebrew babies," she said.

7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?"

8 "Yes, go," she answered. And the girl went and got the baby's mother. 9 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you." So the woman took the baby and nursed him. 10 When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, "I drew him out of the water." -Exodus 2:1-10


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