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Exodus: Exodus has two basic literary genres, narrative history and the laws. The book of Exodus was written by Moses about 1410-1450BC, key personalities are Moses, Miriam, Pharaoh, Pharaoh’s daughter, Aaron, and Joshua, theme is God’s grace. It recorded Israel’s deliverance from slavery and the writing of God’s laws.

I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.” Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ “This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation. “Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to

Ramses the Pharaoh wouldn’t let the Israelites out of Egypt, so Moses stepped in and led the Israelites out of Egypt, which we know as the Exodus. If I were an Israelite, I would join Moses out of Egypt. I would do this because being a slave would mean being tortured. Moreover, Moses had powers from God, so it was save to be with him. He had the Ten Commandments, so people would know how to live their daily lives.

Moses’ sister Miriam came out and asked Pharaoh’s daughter if she would want a Hebrew woman to raise the child and Pharaoh’s daughter agreed. She gave Moses to Miriam, who took him to Jochebed. Pharaoh’s daughter later got him back and gave him the name Moses. He grew up as a prince with respect and royalty. He would deliver his people from pharaoh but didn’t understand it. God made him a ruler over them but they still rejected him, the same way Jesus was rejected. Moses and Jesus can be compared as they share some similarities. They were both favored by God and were rejected. Pharaoh sought to kill Moses because he had killed an Egyptian soldier, so he fled to a land called Midian because he would have find refuge there. One day, Moses sat by a well, he saw some women, getting water. The owner of the land came and told them to leave but Moses stood up for them and watered the flock. They told their father and he was brought into the family. The father sat him and he ate with them, later he gave his daughter Zipporah to him. She, later gave him a son. The Israelites cried out to God because they wanted to be free. One day Moses led his flock up a mountain,

Bijan Ghassemi Exodus/Deuteronomy 100 Professor Bricker November 29, 2014 Honor vs. Shame Exodus is the second book in The Holy Bible and it is known that the first five books of the Holy Bible including Exodus were written by Moses. Cite a source for this? Moses gained his social and religious leadership within the Israelites as God spoke to him and commanded him later on in the Book of Exodus to lead the Israelites out of Egyptian slavery to freedom.

The story starts with the Pharaoh being afraid that the Hebrews would become too strong because they were becoming greater in number. To solve this the Pharaoh enslaved them in order to avoid an uprising, and ordered that all Hebrew newborn sons be killed, “And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.” (King James Bible, Exodus 1:22). However, one Hebrew son, Moses, survived by being hidden and put in a basket in the Nile river. The basket was found by the Pharaoh’s daughter and the Hebrew son was found and brought up in the Pharaoh’s home and was named Moses. When Moses was an adult, he fled Egypt after murdering a slave driver. God appeared to Moses in the form of a burning bush, demanding the Moses lead His people out of Egypt. Moses obeyed God and led his people through the desert for forty years until they found the Promised

Moses: Moses was born in a time when his people, the Israelites, an enslaved minority, were increasing in numbers and the Egyptian Pharaoh was worried that they might ally with Egypt's enemies. God sent Moses back to Egypt to demand the release of the Israelites from slavery. Moses said that he could not speak with assurance or eloquence, so God allowed Aaron, his brother, to become his spokesperson. After the Ten Plagues, Moses led the Exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt and across the Red Sea, after which they based themselves at Mount Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments

Moses was tending to his father-in-law’s sheep when he saw a burning bush. The bush was not being consumed by the fire. God called out to him and told him he was on Holy ground. God then explained that the Hebrews were suffering and that He was going to send them to a great land flowing with milk and honey. This place was called the Promised Land. God sent Moses to the Pharaoh to let the Hebrews go. Moses questioned his authority to do what God told him. God explained that He would be with Moses on his journey. Moses questioned whether the Hebrews will know who God is. God then says “I am who I am” this was what Moses was to tell the Hebrews.

The main argument in Exodus Decoded was that the Exodus actually happened and is not just a story in the Bible. There were many strengths and weaknesses in Simcha Jacobovici’s experiment. In the movie, he was excavating a site where Moses’ followers had lived and before going to the sacred land and that was a strength in his experiment because he was where it began in the story. A weakness he had was that he never seemed to be wrong when it comes to finding where Moses and his followers ended up and to see if the Exodus really happened. Another strength was that he had the Stella of Ahmose.

It is at this time that God reveals himself to him in the presence of a “Burning Bush” at Mount Horeb (Sinai) as it is well known. This is when Moses is told that he was needed to go back to Egypt and free his people from slavery, Moses was shaken and he even refused several times causing God to become angry at him but, and still God beckoned him to do this task. Finally Moses agreed, but Moses was worried as to how he would be able to accomplish such and enormous task. That is when God told him not to worry because he would be with him the entire way. Moses still had one big question for God and that is “ Who is he that he could go to the Pharaoh and tell him to let my people go” and God responded “that we has his messenger and that he was to lead his children out of Egypt and out of Slavery” and that “ He would be with him always”.

~ The Jews, were being used as slaves in Ancient Egypt and were looking for their promise land. Moses was the one who brought them to their freedom to bring them forward to their promise land, sent forth by God.

The story of the Exodus as described in the Torah is as follows: In the 13th century B.C. (archaeologists estimate that this is the correct date), the Hebrews were enslaved in Egypt and had been for around 400 years. They were desperate for liberation and prayed to their God for a deliverer to rescue them and bring them to the land that God had promised their ancestors (modern-day Israel). Their population became so great that the pharaoh ordered for every newborn Hebrew boy to be fed to the

Moses helped lead the Israelite out of Egypt from slavery. He divided the waters so they can

Once out of Egypt, Moses splits the Red sea at God’s command and takes his people across, and also is the demise of the Pharaoh’s army. The Jews are now wandering the desert until they camp at the foot of an mountain. It is at this time when Moses goes up onto the Mountain for a couple of days and comes down with the Ten Commandments form God. This is an

Moses was a humble man, but God sees that he is mightier than Moses sees himself. When God tells him that he must lead the Jews out of Egypt, he grows fearful and unworthy of such a task. Moses humility toward God is what makes him capable of such a tremendous mission. Although, he would have much rather not lead the Jews out of Egypt because he is afraid and does not have faith in himself, however, he is able to do it because God has told him to and God would not ask him to do so if it was impossible. Moses successfully leads the Hebrews out of Egypt. Moses was capable of freeing the Jews of slavery with a quality of humility (No Title, 1986).