Growap Kam and Education

Jochebed “tekem pikinini hia and lukaftarem hem. And datfala pikinini growap. Then hem bringim hem long dota bilong Pharaoh, and hem kamap wanfala son bilong hem.” (Exodus 2:9, 10) Bible no storyim haomas year nao Moses stap witim really dadi and mami bilong hem. Samfala ting diswan maet go kasem taem hem lusim susu—taem hem tu or thri year—bat maet hem winim diswan. Exodus talem nomoa hao hem “growap” witim dadi and mami bilong hem, wea savve minim eni age. Nomata wanem, iumi sure Amram and Jochebed iusim datfala taem for mekem son bilong tufala savve hem wanfala Hebrew and for teachim hem abaotem Jehovah. Wei wea tufala win for putim faith and love for raeteous fasin insaed heart bilong Moses bae showaot bihaen.

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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.”