| According to the Old Testament, the Egyptian pharaoh sent out a decree ordering the deaths of any Hebrew infants born. Baby Moses was placed in a basket amidst the marshes of the Nile River, where he was found by the pharaoh's daughter. It was thus that he was raised in the Egyptian fashion at the pharaoh's court. The story of Moses' rescue from the Nile River is similar to a story that was told in ancient times of King Sargon of Akkad, founder of the Akkadian dynasty in Mesopotamia during the 23rd century B.C.E. |
