baby Moses
Nile reed foundling
A baby Moses is a newborn left in a designated safe surrender location—typically a hospital, fire station, or church—under laws that allow parents to relinquish infants anonymously without criminal prosecution.
The term references the biblical story of Moses, whose mother placed him in a basket on the Nile to save his life.
The hospital received a baby Moses last night.
Safe haven laws are sometimes called Baby Moses laws.
- basketWoven carrying vessel
- NileAfrica's longest river
- riverLarge flowing watercourse
- river bankLand bordering a watercourse
- reedsHollow-stemmed marsh plants
daughter · princess · Hebrew · infant · woven basket · floating · bulrushes · Miriam · hidden · rescued · Egypt · slave · water · cradle · adopted · exodus · plague · burning bush
threatened innocent vs. threatening tyrant
baby MosesPharaoh
Egyptian royal title
King Herod · Herod the Great · Goliath · Nebuchadnezzar · Herod