Ngokuphazima kweso, uMiriyamu wayeselapha. Wabuza: ‘Ngikubizele yini owesifazane ongumHeberu ukuze akuncelisele ingane?’ Abanye bayithola iyindida le ndima. Udadewabo kaMose uvezwa ehlukile kuFaro, owakha icebo ‘lokuhlakaniphela’ amaHeberu enabeluleki bakhe. Yiqiniso, ukuthi uMose wayezophepha kwaze kwaba into eqinisekile lapho inkosazana ivumelana nesu likadadewabo kaMose. “Hamba!” kuphendula indodakazi kaFaro, uMiriyamu wayesephuthuma elanda unina. Ngesivumelwano esiphawulekayo, uJokebedi wabe eseqashwa ukuba akhulise umntwana amzalayo evikelwa abasebukhosini.—Eksodusi 2:5-9.

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Izivumelwano Zabazanyana

Ngokuvamile omama babezincelisela izinsana zabo. Kodwa kuyi-Journal of Biblical Literature, isazi uBrevard Childs sithi “ezimweni ezithile emikhayeni yezinjinga [yaseMpumalanga Eseduze] kwakuqashwa umzanyana. Lo mkhuba wawuvamile nalapho unina engenakuyincelisa ingane noma lapho engaziwa. Umzanyana wayeyikhulisa futhi ayincelise ingane isikhathi esithile esinqunyiwe.” Ezintweni zakudala zaseMpumalanga Eseduze kuye kwatholakala amakhophi amaningana e-papyrus ezivumelwano zabazanyana. Lezi zincwadi ziqinisekisa umkhuba owawandile kusukela enkathini yamaSumer kwaze kwaba ngasekupheleni kwenkathi yokuguqukela ebuGrekini eGibithe. Zivame ukuba namagama abantu abahilelekile, inkathi isivumelwano esasiyosebenza ngayo, imibandela yaso, ukudla okwakumelwe umntwana anikwe kona, inhlawulo yokwephulwa kwesivumelwano, amaholo nendlela amaholo ayeyokhokhwa ngayo. Ngokuvamile, ingane “yayinakekelwa isikhathi esiyiminyaka emibili kuya kwemithathu,” kuchaza uChilds. “Umzanyana wayeyikhulisela kwakhe ingane, kodwa ngezinye izikhathi kwakudingeka ayiyise kumniniyo ukuze ayihlole.”