The leaves are broadly rounded, 25–40 cm across, with a notch at the leaf stem. The flowers have pale bluish-white to sky-blue or mauve petals, smoothly changing to a pale yellow in the centre of the flower. This lotus is used to produce perfumes since ancient times. To reflect this oppression & poverty I have drawn Miriam with a patched brown sackcloth robe, tied around the waist with an old piece of yellow rope.īlue Egyptian water lily or sacred blue lily (Nymphaea caerulea). You can just make out the narrow pathway through the reeds Moses’ mother has made to get to the river bank.Įxodus 1:11 informs us that the Egyptian people (at the command of Pharaoh, their king) put slave masters over the Hebrew people to oppress them with forced labour. If you look closely you will see the loops & ties that Moses’ mother will use to secure the top of the basket to the bottom, sealing the baby Moses safely into a water-tight vessel. This is the first Bible Cartoon I have completed in 2014. Miriam (Moses’ older sister) watching from further downstream on the river bank, who in turn is being watched by a Great Egret even further downstream! Moses (in woven reed basket) with his mother crying as she puts the lid on the little reed boat. The sun is high in the sky & to the left. 4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. 3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. 1 Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, 2 and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son.
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