The Ten Names of Moses and the Burning Coal

"And it came to pass at the end of two years that she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son, and she called his name Moses, for I drew him from the water" (Exodus 2:10). And his father called him Chaver, because on his account he was rejoined with his wife whom he had divorced. And his mother called him Yekutiel, because she had set her hope [kivtahu] on him toward her breasts and God returned him to her. And his sister called him Yered, because on his account she went down [yardah] after him to the river to know what would be his end. And his brother called him Avi Zanoach, saying, my father abandoned [zanach] my mother and brought her back on account of this one. And Kehat and his nurse called him Avi Sokho, saying, like a booth [sukkah] he was hidden three months from the sons of Ham. And all Israel called him Shemayah ben Netanel, because in his days God heard [shama] their groaning from the hand of their oppressors. And it came to pass in the third year from Moses' birth, and Pharaoh was sitting upon his throne, and the queen sitting at his right and Batyah sitting at his left, and the boy sitting in her lap, and all the officers of the kingdom sitting beside him. And as they sat at the table, the boy stretched out his hand and took the crown from the head of the king and set it upon his own head. And the king and the officers were alarmed at this and wondered a very great wonder. And Balaam the magician, one of the king's eunuchs, answered and said, Remember now, my lord the king, the dream you dreamed and what your servant interpreted; now is not this child one of the children of the Hebrews, in whom is the spirit of God, and out of wisdom he did this and has chosen for himself the kingdom of Egypt? What did Abraham do, who weakened the army of Nimrod king of the Chaldeans and Abimelech king of Gerar, and inherited the land of the children of Heth and all the kingdoms of Canaan? He too went down to Egypt and said of his wife, She is my sister, to ruin Egypt and its king. Isaac too, what did he do to the Philistines among whom he dwelt in Gerar, when his strength grew greater than all the Philistines, and he too wished to ruin their king by saying of his wife, She is my sister. And Jacob walked with cunning and took from the hand of his brother, his mother's son, his birthright and his blessing, and went to Padan Aram to the house of Laban his mother's brother and took his daughters and his cattle and all that he had and fled and dwelt in the land of Canaan. His sons sold Joseph, and he went down to Egypt and was put in prison twelve years until the ancient Pharaoh dreamed his dream and brought him out of prison and made him great over all the officers of Egypt for interpreting his dreams. And when God brought famine on the land, he sent and brought his sons and his brothers to Egypt and sustained them without price, and bought us as slaves. And if it please the king, let us spill his blood upon the ground before he grows and takes the kingdom from your hand and the hope of Egypt perishes after he reigns. And God sent one of the holy angels, and his name was Gabriel, and he made himself resemble one of them, and the angel answered and said, If it please the king, let them bring an onyx stone and a coal of fire and set them before the child; and if he stretches out his hand to the onyx, know that out of wisdom he did this, and we shall kill him; and if he sets his hand upon the coal, know that not out of wisdom did he do it, and we shall let him live. And the matter pleased the king and the officers, and the king did according to the word of the angel. And they brought him the onyx and the coal, and the angel took his hand to the coal, and the coal clung to his finger, and he lifted it to his mouth and it burned part of his lips and the tip of his tongue, and he became heavy of mouth and heavy of tongue; and the king and the officers refrained from killing the child. And he was in the house of Pharaoh after this fifteen years. And it came to pass when the boy was in the house of the king, clothed in garments of purple, and he grew up among the king's sons. And it came to pass at the end of fifteen years from his coming to the king's house, which was the eighteenth year from the day of his birth, that the boy longed for his father and his mother and went to them, and went out to his brothers and saw their burdens, and saw an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man of his brothers. And it came to pass when the smitten man saw Moses, he fled to him for help, for the man Moses was honored and great in the house of Pharaoh. And he said to him, I beg you, my lord, this Egyptian man came last night to my house and bound me, and went in to my wife before me, and now he seeks to take my life. And when Moses heard this evil thing, his anger burned greatly, and he saw that there was no man, and he struck the Egyptian and hid him in the sand, and saved the Hebrew from the hand of the one who struck him, and Moses went and sat in the house of the king, and the Hebrew man returned to his house. And when the man came home and intended to divorce his wife, for it is not fitting for the house of Jacob to go in to his wife after she has been defiled, the woman went and told her brother, and the woman's brother sought to kill him, and he fled to his house and escaped. "And Moses grew up" (Exodus 2:11): Rav Yehudah said, all children do not grow that Scripture should say "and he grew up," rather he was five years old yet appeared as one eleven years old. Why does it say "and he grew up" twice? Above in stature, and below in greatness. What was his greatness? That he went out to his brothers.