A cow wading in the Nile saw a basket in the reeds, and when he bent to see, a frog hopped on his head to see too. A little baby was inside. A flea perched on the handwoven awning and looked at the face, and a fly stopped nearby; they had never seen anything like this before. A young girl came sloshing towards the basket, carrying the cover that apparently had slipped off when she had been distracted by something else. Just before she snapped the lid back on, the insect on the blade of grass to the side of the basket leaped for cover. It was a locust.
About 40 years later, the baby - Moses - became a murderer and fugitive and fled to Midian to become a shepherd. He returned when he was 80 - did these critters tell their descendants about the infant they saw floating on the river? Because for 5 of the plagues, he called for them to come. Could they have known the baby would someday come back...and come back as he did?
