Miriam kwiktaem go long hem and ask: ‘Waswe, iu laekem mi for kolem kam wanfala Hebrew woman for susum disfala pikinini for iu?’ Sista bilong Moses duim samting wea difren from Pharaoh, wea formimap plan witim olketa bigman bilong hem for deal long “kleva” wei witim olketa Hebrew. Bat, Moses hem sef taem dota bilong Pharaoh agree long plan bilong Miriam. “Go!” dota bilong Pharaoh hem talem, and stretawe Miriam go kolem kam mami bilong hem. Bihaen olketa mekem spesol agreement, Jochebed kamap wan for bringimap own pikinini bilong hem and kasem royal protection.—Exodus 2:5-9.

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Olketa Kontrak for Susum Pikinini

Evritaem mami bilong baby nao bae susum baby. Bat, olsem savveman Brevard Childs hem talem insaed Journal of Biblical Literature, “samfala taem, olketa hae class famili [long East] savve haerem wanfala woman for susum baby bilong olketa. Diswan hem happen tu taem mami bilong pikinini hard for susum baby bilong hem or taem pikinini no garem mami. Disfala woman garem responsibility for bringimap pikinini, and tu, for susum hem go kasem taem olketa markem.” Olketa difren kontrak wea olketa raetem long papyrus stap yet distaem. Olketa raeting hia givim pruv hao disfala wei hem big tumas midolwan Sumerian and Hellenistic taem long Egypt. Staka long olketa givim information abaotem olketa wea insaed kontrak, kontrak hem for hao long, olketa instruction abaotem hao for feedim pikinini, panis for brekem kontrak, wages, and hao for peim wages. Staka taem, “hem tekem tu or thrifala year for susum and lukaftarem pikinini,” Childs hem sei. “Datfala woman bringimap pikinini long haos bilong hem, bat samfala taem mas tekem go long wan wea ownim for hem chekim.”