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Moses In The Land Of Goshen

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Moses, son of Abraham and Jochebed, was born in the Land of Goshen, modern day Egypt. At the time due to the law that the Pharaoh had put in place all first-born children of the Israelites had to be drowned in the Nile River to prevent children from growing up and retaliating against the Pharaoh himself. Moses was put in the Nile, but wasn’t drowned. Jochebed couldn’t drown her own son so she put him in a basket and let him float down the Nile. As he floated by the Pharaoh’s estate, the Pharaohs daughter rescued him from the Nile and named him, and thus he was “raised” by Egyptian royalty. At the beginning of the book of Exodus Moses speaks to G-d through the burning bush, where G-d appoints him the leader of the Israelites and instructs him …show more content…

The reason for Moses’ death is greatly disputed and each Bible and their annotators give a different reason for the death of Moses. This writing is to serve as an exploration of the death of Moses from a secular standpoint with only the writings of the Bible as …show more content…

This becomes more evident when Moses marries, Zipporah, a woman from the Midianites (Exodus 2:15-22). Together they have a son named Gershon, which is thought to translate to “exile.” Sigmund Freud argues that the Israelite genealogy of Moses’ roots was only created to mask the true Egyptian roots of Moses. The Promised Land was promised to the Israelites and the death of Moses at the hands of G-d may be a way of sending a message to the people of Israel. By killing Moses, the leader of the people for the past 40 years, G-d is communicating to the people that even someone with very little Egyptian heritage doesn’t deserve to live in the Promised Land, no matter how important they’ve been to the freedom of the Israelites. This hypothesis would argue that Moses was killed by G-d purely to send a message to the people of Israel to prove how privileged they are to be permitted into the Promised Land, creating an extreme sense of

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