I am going to be talking about Moses and the law it was written in the book of exodus. Moses was born a Hebrew in Egypt. Hebrews we're an Israelite slave in Egypt at the time when Moses was born Hebrews started to expand so large that the Egyptians started getting terrified and saying what if the Hebrews outgrow us? If they outgrow us that means the Hebrew will out number the Egyptians so therefore if the Hebrews wanted to take over they will be able to because they outnumber the Egyptians. Pharaoh came up with this idea If he killed all Hebrew baby boys at birth he wouldn’t have to worry about that problem so Pharaoh ordered that all Hebrew baby boys are to be put to death at birth.
Moses mother had been hiding him for three months she was afraid of keeping him any longer The reason they hid him for just three months was, because during that period he was able to remain a bit more silent and discreet, and wasn’t very conspicuous to people outside of his home; but as he grew older, this quickly changed and something had to be done. Not knowing what else to do because the child was so loud and hard to
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One day while Moses was working out with the herds he sees a burning bush which was strange and approaches the burning bush he hears the loud voice of god saying go back to Egypt and help free the Hebrews. Moses wanted to know what was the name of the spirit that was talking because at the time there was many gods that people believed in but god wouldn’t give his name and said 'I will be who I will be'. Moses went back to Egypt to ask Pharaoh to let the Hebrews free but pharaoh said no because he didn’t want to lose his slaves and at the time the Hebrews was working on a grand building for him.bad things began to happen in Egypt all because Pharaoh didn’t want to let them go and bad things happened until he had let the Hebrew
God calls Moses to be the Israelites deliverer. This is a man who ran from Egypt because he killed an Egyptian and was content to spend his life as a shepherd. But God had different plans for Moses because the Lord uses the most imperfect people and empowers them to do his will. The Lord met with Moses and called him to deliver his people but Moses wanted to argue with God because Moses did not believe he was the right choice. Moses argued he was not the best choice because
“There is at least a four-hundred-year gap between the last chapter of Genesis and the first chapter of Exodus” (Thronveit and Gaiser). The Egyptian Bondage and Exodus story of the Old Testament centers mostly around a man named Moses. The story is divided into three major parts that each span over a 40 year period. The first 40 years focuses on Moses’s upbringing (Acts 7:23). He was raised like a prince and lived his early life around the royalty of Egypt.
Moses was reluctant at first, but who wouldn’t be when a talking burning bush appeared in front of you. He asks “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?’ and says that he cannot talk with eloquence (Ranieri, 75). He makes up excuses trying to avoid God and his plan for him.
This is the core reason that he ordered all male children under the age of 2 to be slaughtered. This characterization is biblically accurate. The characterization of Miriam, Moses’ sister, is accurate as well. Miriam stayed near the river to keep watch over the basket that held her baby brother both in the Bible story and in the movie. In both stories, it is she who speaks up and offers to find a nurse for the baby. This was a clever way for Moses’ mother to speak truth over him as he grew before he went to live with the royal family.
In Exodus 2:5, the Pharaoh’s daughter disregards the order to kill the baby boys and rescues a baby from the reeds of the Nile. Recognizing he was Hebrew, she decides to raise him as her own, allowing a Hebrew woman to be his wet-nurse by the suggestion of a young Hebrew girl (not knowing they were the baby’s mother and sister). This baby later becomes known as Moses who eventually leads the Israelites to their freedom. In conclusion, the bible demonstrates how the people did not respect the Pharaoh as a leader of the Egyptian kingdom. Raveh (2013) explains:
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
Moses replied,“The Lord God of the Hebrews command that you let his people go so that they may serve Him. Now, Aaron will stretch his rod towards the cattle of Egypt and they will all die.”
As Moses grows he becomes aware of his lineage and takes notice to how oppressed his people are in Egypt. While leading a flock out on the side of a mountain the angel of Jehovah appears in a flame and a bush begins to burn. The bush does not erupt into ash and Moses is awestruck. God calls to Moses and begins to relay him his destiny. God says “I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows, and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians… and unto a land flowing with milk and honey”
My primary source reading was the “Book of Exodus: Moses Leads the Hebrews from Egypt” found in the primary source reader in Launchpad. This primary source is known as a historian’s raw material. This source is written from the time of the event being studied which happens to be from 950-450 B.C.E. timeline. In summary, the Book of Exodus (2nd book of the Hebrew Torah and the Christian Old Testament) “recounts the escape of the Hebrew people from captivity in Egypt and their forty year journey through the desert to the promised land” (Launchpad). Specifically, this primary source looks at a passage that recounts the “climatic events of the Exodus, when the Hebrew people fled Egypt and later when Moses received the Covenant from God” (Launchpad).
Moses as told by Acts was born during the regin of Pharaoh Ramses who sent a decree that all hebrew children were to be put to death. However, Moses was placed in a basked in the Nile by his biological mother and taken in by the pharaohs daughter. The royal daughter made sure Moses was cared for and educated as an Egyptian. As expected Moses sought out his own people. During his visit he saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian so he immendailty defended him however the Israelites rejected the very idea of him until forty years later when an Angel would appear to Moses in a burning bush
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 is born at the time where the pharaoh decides to kill all the first born boys.
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).
The Law of Moses, or Moses’s Law refers to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, sometimes call the Pentateuch, or Torah which is a central reference of Judaism. Of the covenants found in the Pentateuch are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These books contained the laws and instruction given by the Lord to Moses which establishes Israel as a nation. All five of the books are believed to be written by MosesIntroduction
Discuss the significance of the books of Exodus-Deuteronomy as they move the storyline from Genesis forward.