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b'In this episode, we look at\\u2026\\n\\nthe importance of women when they are named in the Bible\\nhow \\u201ccompliments\\u201d can be laced with racism\\nhow queer people have used humor, campiness, and covert language to survive (and parallels to the story here)\\nGod working in the margins\\nthis story isn\\u2019t about the Israelites \\u201ctransforming\\u201d Egypt and making them more accepting\\u2026 it\\u2019s about the Israelites getting out! God is with the Israelites, not with Egypt (and how the same applies to LGBTQ people)\\nthe Israelites were a pain the ass and that\\u2019s what changed Pharaoh\\u2019s mind\\nBayard Rustin: \\u201cWe need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers\\u201d\\nit\\u2019s OK to offend your oppressors\\nhow you can learn to queer the Bible with our online course Reading Queerly, which is available inside of Sanctuary Collective\\n\\nRead the transcript\\nExodus 1:8-2:10\\nNow a new king came to power in Egypt who didn\\u2019t know Joseph. He said to his people, \\u201cThe Israelite people are now larger in number and stronger than we are. Come on, let\\u2019s be smart and deal with them. Otherwise, they will only grow in number. And if war breaks out, they will join our enemies, fight against us, and then escape from the land.\\u201d As a result, the Egyptians put foremen of forced work gangs over the Israelites to harass them with hard work. They had to build storage cities named Pithom and Rameses for Pharaoh. But the more they were oppressed, the more they grew and spread, so much so that the Egyptians started to look at the Israelites with disgust and dread. So the Egyptians enslaved the Israelites. They made their lives miserable with hard labor, making mortar and bricks, doing field work, and by forcing them to do all kinds of other cruel work.\\nThe king of Egypt spoke to two Hebrew midwives named Shiphrah and Puah: \\u201cWhen you are helping the Hebrew women give birth and you see the baby being born, if it\\u2019s a boy, kill him. But if it\\u2019s a girl, you can let her live.\\u201d Now the two midwives respected God so they didn\\u2019t obey the Egyptian king\\u2019s order. Instead, they let the baby boys live.\\nSo the king of Egypt called the two midwives and said to them, \\u201cWhy are you doing this? Why are you letting the baby boys live?\\u201d\\nThe two midwives said to Pharaoh, \\u201cBecause Hebrew women aren\\u2019t like Egyptian women. They\\u2019re much stronger and give birth before any midwives can get to them.\\u201d So God treated the midwives well, and the people kept on multiplying and became very strong. And because the midwives respected God, God gave them households of their own.\\nThen Pharaoh gave an order to all his people: \\u201cThrow every baby boy born to the Hebrews into the Nile River, but you can let all the girls live.\\u201d\\nNow a man from Levi\\u2019s household married a Levite woman. The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She saw that the baby was healthy and beautiful, so she hid him for three months. When she couldn\\u2019t hide him any longer, she took a reed basket and sealed it up with black tar. She put the child in the basket and set the basket among the reeds at the riverbank. The baby\\u2019s older sister stood watch nearby to see what would happen to him.\\nPharaoh\\u2019s daughter came down to bathe in the river, while her women servants walked along beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds, and she sent one of her servants to bring it to her. When she opened it, she saw the child. The boy was crying, and she felt sorry for him. She said, \\u201cThis must be one of the Hebrews\\u2019 children.\\u201d\\nThen the baby\\u2019s sister said to Pharaoh\\u2019s daughter, \\u201cWould you like me to go and find one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?\\u201d\\nPharaoh\\u2019s daughter agreed, \\u201cYes, do that.\\u201d So the girl went and called the child\\u2019s mother. Pharaoh\\u2019s daughter said to her, \\u201cTake this child and nurse it for me, and I\\u2019ll pay you for your work.\\u201d So the woman took the child and nursed it. 10 After the child had grown up, she brought him back to Pharaoh\\u2019s daughter, who adopted him as her son. She named him Moses, \\u201cbecause,\\u201d she said, \\u201cI pulled him out of the water.\\u201d\\nPhoto'