Blogging Through the Book of Mormon

2:16- 22- It seems to me that many important events that are recorded in the scriptures, happens at a well. That’s significant because obviously, people need water to survive and we need a large and constant flow of it. Unfortunately, people weren’t born with indoor plumbing and running water, which would have been nice. Because of this lack of naturally occurring constant supply of water into our homes, finding a clean water source and bringing the water from that common source to individual homes was very time consuming. In fact, I’ve heard it suggested that shortening the distance to a well to just 1 mile allows millions of girls worldwide to attend school, because they aren’t spending their whole life walking to and from the water source. The flight that Moses took from Egypt to Midian ended at a well where he came upon the “seven daughters” of the “priest of Midian.” They were drawing water to put into the trough for their sheep when “the shepherds came and drove them away: but M...

2:11- - As happens in many written historical accounts, decades of Moses’ life are covered in the simple sentence, “when Moses was grown.” The IM tells us some of what might have been involved in Moses’ childhood, growing up in a royal household, quoting Stephen as saying, “And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.” This is an interesting characterization because we know that Moses felt that he was a poor speaker which is why he petitioned the Lord to have Aaron speak for him, but Stephen might have just been commenting on Moses when he was toward the end of his life. But clearly Moses would have been educated in the highest ways of the Egyptians because he was considered to be the Pharaoh’s daughter’s son. TB notes, “it’s fairly easy to extrapolate from the vast amount of Egyptian records that have been discovered concerning royal life. While (Moses) would have been given all the finest in education, military training, the best f...