The Seven Women Who Rescued Moses—and Israel

The Exodus Way E13 (Bonus Interview) — The exodus from Egypt was a foundational story for ancient Israel, but without a special group of seven often overlooked women, the exodus would have never happened! In this episode, Jon and Tim have a conversation with BibleProject Scholarship Fellow Tamara Knudson about the seven women in Exodus 1-4 who save Moses—and by extension—all of Israel.

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CHAPTERS

1. Introducing Tamara and the Seven Women of Exodus 1-4 (0:00-6:29)
2. The Two Midwives and Moses’ Mother (6:29-21:20)
3. Pharaoh’s Daughter and Moses’ Sister, Miriam (21:20-31:08)
4. Zipporah, Moses’ Wife (31:08-46:39)
5. Other Books of the Bible That Start With Women (46:39-54:54)

OFFICIAL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

View this episode’s official transcript.

REFERENCED RESOURCES

• Read the BibleProject article that Tamara contributed to: “7 Powerful Women in the Bible Who Help Rescue God's People.”
• Tim references a previous Q+R episode, “Did God Try To Kill Moses?” where they responded to an audience member’s question about Exodus 4:24-26.
• Tamara references Carmen Imes’ Exodus Overview Classroom course.
• You can view annotations for this episode—plus our entire library of videos, podcasts, articles, and classes—in the BibleProject app, available for Android and iOS.
• Check out Tim’s extensive collection of recommended books here.

SHOW MUSIC

• “Hope in the Morning ft. CRFT & GXNXSIS” by Lofi Sunday
• “Redeemer ft. Cassidy Godwin” by Lofi Sunday
• “That Gospel ft. Bobcat” by Lofi Sunday
• “Eden Dreaming ft. sxxnt.” by Lofi Sunday
• BibleProject theme song by TENTS

SHOW CREDITS

Production of today’s episode is by Lindsey Ponder, producer, and Cooper Peltz, managing producer. Tyler Bailey is our supervising engineer, who edited today’s episode and also provided the sound design and mix. JB Witty does our show notes, and Hannah Woo provides the annotations for our app. Our host and creative director is Jon Collins, and our lead scholar is Tim Mackie. Special thanks to Tamara Knudson.

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