God: The Story Of Exodus

During this time they were fed by the power of God. They also trained themselves to become a professional army. Later they arrived at Mount Sinai, where Moses retrieved the Ten Commandments from God. He recorded it on two stone tablets. After Moses came down from Mount Sinai, he found out that the Israelites were worshipping a Golden Calf when he was gone. Moses smashed the tablets in furious. The fault is mainly Aaron’s. Aaron was sent to soothe the Israelites and keep them good. But he led them into a wrong way by letting the people drifting off and do whatever they wanted. But somehow, Aaron wasn’t chastised. After this “accident”, Moses and Aaron became separated. Later, God raised another person, Joshua, to finish what Moses didn’t do. Moses was called up to the Mount Sinai again for another 40 days. During this 40 days, Moses carved the Ten Commandments back into two new stone tablets. After Moses received the Ten Commandments again, he led the people back onto the journey to Canaan, or the “Promised Land” of God. (NewWorldEncyclopedia) The Israelites wandered in the desert for forty years according to the Book of Exodus. During the journey, some people started doubting if Moses could really help them arrive at the “Promised Land” or not. The time is 40 years was because God punished the Jews for 40 days of the failed spying mission. During the 40 years, the Israelites

The story of Moses is one of the more widely known stories from the Old Testament. The story is found in the book of Exodus and details the life of the prophet Moses. The story of Moses has been the basis of several Hollywood movies. One of the movies, The Prince of Egypt, is a cartoon depiction of the story of Moses. While the movie is very entertaining and will captivate a child’s attention from the beginning, there are not very many accurate details from the Biblical story.

The Exodus story is a key event in regards to Israel’s history and the Old Testament. Exodus is often seen as the beginning for the Israelites in regards to their journey of faith. In Exodus it covers many events which includes Moses being called by God to lead the slaves, the escape of Egypt, wandering in the Sinai desert for forty years, establishing a covenant with God, receiving the Torah, and getting settled in the new land that they were called to. The Torah is known as the instruction from God that was given to Moses and then passed on to the Israel’s people. Passover is an event that has important significance still to this day. Jews still celebrate this event every year as a way to show the importance of passing through the life of

God wanted to Hebrews to be let free from Egypt. To accomplish this God sent ten plagues to Egypt. At this time Moses was the leader of the Hebrews. Moses led his people out of Egypt and into the desert. They wondered the desert for 40 years until they found the land that God had promised them. Joshua led the Hebrews to take over the land from the people who lived there before the Hebrews were

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

Abraham’s journey ends when he has complete trust in God. The journey of Moses, leader of the Hebrews, is told in Exodus. A Pharaoh is displeased with the Israelites multiplying and orders all Hebrew male children be drowned in the Nile. Moses begins his journey as an infant in a woven basket, cast into the Nile and rescued and raised by the Pharaoh’s daughter. Moses kills a man for beating a slave and flees Egypt.

I personally believe, based on my religion and facts, that the events in Exodus really happened. In this short essay I will give evidence that the events in the book of Exodus really happened. But I will write a paragraph giving examples of why it didn't happen, so I can write about both sides.

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

Exodus is the earliest text in the Old Testament that creates a new identity and sense of community to a group of people who had nothing. According to the Exodus there were a group of slaves who fled Egypt and where led by a prophet named Moses, who also is the proclaimed author of the book. These people where on a mission to find the promise land where they can be free from oppression and create their own civilization. These claims are true are still debated to this day, but the text was written around the 1400 B.C. Moses intentions for Exodus were to set laws for his new community to a group of people who had only knew lives as slaves.

It begins with Joshua and the rest of the Israelites are commanded to leave Lebanon. God tells them it is time for them to take Canaan from the Hittites. God says that if they follow the commands of Moses they will be successful in all their endeavors. They head over to Canaan and set up camp. Joshua sends two spies into Jericho, a city in Canaan, to find out the weaknesses and the best way to attack. While there, someone spots them and gets word to the King that there are Israelite spies in Jericho that have come back to take Canaan. The spies go into the house of Rahab, the prostitute, whose house is built into the city wall. Rahab hides them on her roof when the guards come to look for the spies. She tells them she knows they are there to take Canaan and asks that her and her family are spared when they come to defeat the Hittites. She says that she knows the land rightfully belongs to the Israelites and they will kill everyone. The spies grant her and her family protection. The spies return to the Israelite camp and report all that happened. Joshua is instructed by the Lord to have all the Israelites walk around the walls of Jericho for seven days silently and on the seventh day, yell and blow trumpets. They carry out the Lord’s instructions and the walls of Jericho collapse. The Israelites overtake the Hittites of Jericho and Rahab and her family stay with the Israelites for the rest of her life. The King of Canaan hears about the fall of Jericho and sends his armies to defeat the Israelites and take back Jericho. The Lord tells Joshua that despite the fact that the King’s army is larger, God will allow them to defeat the Hittites. The people are not afraid and win the battle. Many years later, Joshua is dying and begins to make sure everything will run smoothly after his death. Joshua warns the Israelites to follow Book of the Law of Moses, or else God will not protect them. The

Moses was a leader of the Hebrews and probably the most important figure in Judaism. He led the Hebrew people out of Egypt and into the Promise Land. His story is told in the book of Exodus, and begins when he was first born during the time that the pharaoh of Egypt declared that all male Hebrew babies were to be drowned at birth. Moses’ mother Yocheved, hid Moses and placed him in a basket in the reeds of the Nile River, where he was then found by the pharaoh’s daughter, who kept Moses and raised him as her own. In the story of Moses, he grows up and stumbles upon an Egyptian beating a Hebrew slave. Out of anger Moses murders the Egyptian, and flees to Midian to escape his crime (Hays, 2000). In Midian, Moses rests besides a well,

Moses then found out that he was a Israelite. Pharaoh was going to kill him but he ran away from Egypt into the desert to find a tribe in the place called Midian. Moses stayed there in Midian and became a shepherd and married the daughter of the Priest of Midian. God had started to notice the suffering of the Israelites. One day while Moses was doing his job out in the field he saw a bush that had flames but wasn’t burning. Then God called out to him and said to him that he must go back to Egypt and lead the Israelites out of their slavery. Moses tries to say no but God commands him to go so the next morning he goes of to Egypt with his

Exodus focus on the life of Moses who was the son of Amram, and descended of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Israelites in Egypt were slaves and was suffering under the Pharaoh’s rule. It took a long time before God realized the suffering of the israelites and remembered his promise with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God then decided to use Moses to help lead the Israelites out

Exodus is a Book of the Law believed to be written by Moses between 1265 and 1220 BC. Exodus covers the deliverance of the Israelites held in captivity in Egypt, after the death of Joseph, for 400 years. It speaks of the life of Moses from his birth to his death 125 years later. It depicts the cruelty the Hebrew slaves suffered at the hands of Pharaoh and how God miraculous y worked on their behalf to free them and bring them to the land He had promised Abraham. Exodus shows the cost of disobedience and lack of faith in God as Israel is required to wander in the wilderness for forty years until all those who rebelled are dead. God brought a new generation into the Promised Land. In this, Exodus shows that man is accountable to God

He was a member of the Egyptian Court until the time he was exiled for the killing of another Court official. Moses’ life was full of different events that would lead to his future destination. On one occasion Moses's brother, a Hebrew was in a heated conflict with an Egyptian. Moses could not contain himself and intervenes in the midst of the conflict between his brother and the Egyptian, and in his brother's defense, Moses killed the Egyptian. Moses thought that no one had seen him kill the Egyptian and therefore did not worry much about the incident further. In another event Moses encounters a fight going on between two Hebrew men. Moses interrupts the fight, to ask the men, “Why are you fighting?” Moses was surprised by one of the men's reply, “Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” When Moses heard the man say that, he became fearful of his life because he knew then that there were witnesses to the murder of the Egyptian that he had not previously known. Moses tries to get back to life as normal. As Moses is trying to live life with one eye open and fearing for his life, he hears that Pharaoh is out to kill him. Moses then decides to run from Pharaoh and leaves out for the land of