Faith Hope Sacrifice
This painting is a meditation on the moment when Jochebed, the mother of Moses, let go of the basket. Pharaoh fearing the growing population of the Hebrews, demanded the male babies drowned in the Nile River. With this imposition on top of the hardship and cruelty of living as slaves, Jochebed must have had tremendous faith and hope in God that her son might be spared. But she would have to sacrifice her son, give him up, to save his life.
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