“At that time Moses was born—a beautiful child in God’s eyes. His parents cared for him at home for three months.

They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents.

For you are not a true Jew just because you were born of Jewish parents or because you have gone through the ceremony of circumcision.

Now I am coming to you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you. I don’t want what you have—I want you. After all, children don’t provide for their parents. Rather, parents provide for their children.

Children and Parents

Children, obey your parents because you belong to the Lord, for this is the right thing to do.

Children, always obey your parents, for this pleases the Lord.

But if she has children or grandchildren, their first responsibility is to show godliness at home and repay their parents by taking care of them. This is something that pleases God.

For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred.

It was by faith that Moses’ parents hid him for three months when he was born. They saw that God had given them an unusual child, and they were not afraid to disobey the king’s command.