Reader's Theater Script – Books of Moses 08
The Call of Moses
Exodus 3:1-8
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Characters: Narrator, Pharaoh, Slave, Girls, Moses, Voices
Reader’s Theater - Slide 1
Narrator: The Children of Israel lived peacefully in Egypt for 400 years. They grew in numbers and
prospered. Then a terrible thing happened. A new Pharaoh who did not remember Joseph arose.
Threatened by Israel’s power, he turned them all into slaves and ordered their baby boys be put to
death.
Pharaoh: Work or die!
Slave: This isn’t going so well.
Reader’s Theater - Slide 2 (Click to advance)
Narrator: One frightened woman placed her baby into a basket and floated it down the river toward
Pharaoh’s daughter. The princess pulled it from the waters and named the baby Moses.
Girls: Moses means, “I drew him out!”
Narrator: She raised Moses as a prince, providing for his every need and giving him the best education
the world had to offer.
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Girls: You’re pretty smart.
Moses: Thanks.
Narrator: Then one day Moses saw a soldier beating a slave. He tried to stop the beating and hit the
soldier. He died!
Voices: (Smack) Aaaaaaaaaaah!
Narrator: Moses was forced to run away into the wilderness.
Reader’s Theater - Slide 3 (Click to advance)
Voices: Years later…
Narrator: Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock
beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There an angel of the Lord appeared
to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; God called…
Voices: Moses!
Narrator: He said:
Moses: Here I am!
Voices: The place on which you are standing is holy ground.
Reader’s Theater - Slide 4 (Click to advance)
Voices: I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, too. I have
observed the misery of my people. I have heard their cry… indeed, I know their sufferings, and I have
come down to deliver them.
Reader’s Theater - Slide 5 (Click to advance)
Narrator: But Moses said:
Moses: If I say to them, “The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,” and they ask me, “What is his
name?” What shall I say to them?
Voices: I am who I am!
Moses: What?
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Voices: Yahweh! I am who I am!
Moses: What kind of a name is that?
Voices: I am who I am!
Reader’s Theater - Slide 6 (Click to advance)
Narrator: And Moses went to Egypt and did as the Lord God commanded him.
Voices: To be continued!
(Applause)
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