The First Adoption…

The first adoption referenced in the Bible was Moses. His mother placed him in a basket in the Nile river at the exact location pharaoh’s daughter bathed. She knew that pharaoh’s daughter would take him in and raise him as her own, not killing him as her father decreed. What does this show us? That killing children, infants, and the unborn is wrong. God has given us an example of what one woman did to save her baby boy. She put him up for adoption. Isn’t that the choice mothers should make when they do not think they can raise a child due to their circumstances? Being Pro-choice is accepted as you have a right to kill your unborn child. That’s not really a choice, it’s a dead-end decision. A choice would be keeping and raising your child, or put him/her up for adoption. That’s a choice. Women back in Moses’ time didn’t even consider killing their unborn children, this is why Moses was put into the basket and floated down the Nile. It wasn’t a dead-end decision. God is the God of the living. So when did things change?

1 About this time, a man and woman from the tribe of Levi got married. 2 The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She saw that he was a special baby and kept him hidden for three months. 3 But when she could no longer hide him, she got a basket made of papyrus reeds and waterproofed it with tar and pitch. She put the baby in the basket and laid it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile River. 4 The baby’s sister then stood at a distance, watching to see what would happen to him.5 Soon Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe in the river, and her attendants walked along the riverbank. When the princess saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maid to get it for her. 6 When the princess opened it, she saw the baby. The little boy was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This must be one of the Hebrew children,” she said.7 Then the baby’s sister approached the princess. “Should I go and find one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?” she asked.8 “Yes, do!” the princess replied. So the girl went and called the baby’s mother.9 “Take this baby and nurse him for me,” the princess told the baby’s mother. “I will pay you for your help.” So the woman took her baby home and nursed him.10 Later, when the boy was older, his mother brought him back to Pharaoh’s daughter, who adopted him as her own son. The princess named him Moses, for she explained, “I lifted him out of the water.” Exodus 2:1-10