Moses
By Alyssa B.
Facts
• Along with God, it is the figure of Moses
(Moshe) who dominates the Torah. Acting at
God's behest, it is he who leads the Jews out
of slavery, unleashes the Ten Plagues against
Egypt, guides the freed slaves for forty years in
the wilderness, carries down the law from
Mount Sinai, and prepares the Jews to enter
the land of Canaan. Without Moses, there
would be little apart from laws to write about
in the last four books of the Torah.
Facts
• Moses is born during the Jewish enslavement in Egypt, during
a terrible period when Pharaoh decrees that all male Hebrew
infants are to be drowned at birth. His mother, Yocheved,
desperate to prolong his life, floats him in a basket in the Nile.
Hearing the crying child as she walks by, Pharaoh's daughter
pities the crying infant and adopts him. It surely is no
coincidence that the Jews' future liberator is raised as an
Egyptian prince. Had Moses grown up in slavery with his
fellow Hebrews, he probably would not have developed the
pride, vision, and courage to lead a revolt.
Facts
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The Torah records only three incidents in Moses' life before God appoints him a
prophet. As a young man, outraged at seeing an Egyptian overseer beating a
Jewish slave, he kills the overseer. The next day, he tries to make peace between
two Hebrews who are fighting, but the aggressor takes umbrage and says: "Do you
mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses immediately understands that
he is in danger, for though his high status undoubtedly would protect him from
punishment for the murder of a mere overseer, the fact that he killed the man for
carrying out his duties to Pharaoh would brand him a rebel against the king.
Indeed, Pharaoh orders Moses killed, and he flees to Midian. At this point, Moses
probably wants nothing more than a peaceful interlude, but immediately he finds
himself in another fight. The seven daughters of the Midianite priest Reuel (also
called Jethro) are being abused by the Midianite male shepherds, and Moses rises
to their defense .
Facts
• Moses (Hebrew: ‫ֹשה‬
ֶׁ ‫מ‬, Modern Moshe Tiberian Mōšé; Greek: Mωϋσῆς
Mōüsēs in both the Septuagint and the New Testament; Arabic: ٰ‫موسى‬,
Mūsa) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, a religious leader, lawgiver, and
prophet, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed.
• Also called Moshe Rabbenu in Hebrew (Hebrew: ‫ֹשה ַרבֵּ נּו‬
ֶׁ ‫מ‬, Lit. "Moses our
Teacher/Rabbi"), he is the most important prophet in Judaism, and is also
considered an important prophet by Christianity, Islam, the Bahá'í Faith,
Rastafari, and many other faiths. Moses has also been an important
symbol in American history, from the first settlers up until the present.
Facts
• According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was born in a time
when his people, the Children of Israel, were increasing in
number and the Egyptian Pharaoh was worried that they
might help Egypt's enemies. Moses' Hebrew mother,
Jochebed, hid him when the Pharaoh ordered all newborn
Hebrew boys to be killed. He ended up being adopted into the
Egyptian royal family. After killing an Egyptian slave-master,
Moses fled across the Red Sea to Midian where he tended the
flocks of Jethro, a priest of Midian on the slopes of Mt. Horeb.
After the Ten Plagues were unleashed on Egypt, Moses led
the Exodus of the Hebrew people out of Egypt and across the
Red Sea, after which they based themselves at Mount Sinai
and compassed the borders of Edom. It was at this time that
Moses received the Ten Commandments. Despite living to the
age of 120, Moses died before reaching the Land of Israel.
Facts
• In the Bible, the narratives of Moses are in Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers and Deuteronomy. According to the Book of Exodus,
Moses was a son of Amram, a member of the Levite tribe of
Israel descended from Jacob, and his wife, Jochebed.Jochebed
(also Yocheved) was kin to Amram's father Kehath (Exodus
6:20). Moses had one older (by seven years) sister, Miriam,
and one older (by three years) brother, Aaron.According to
Genesis 46:11, Amram's father Kehath immigrated to Egypt
with 70 of Jacob's household, making Moses part of the
second generation of Israelites born during their time in
Egypt.
Facts
• The Exodus account, the birth of Moses occurred at a time when an
unnamed Egyptian Pharaoh had commanded that all male Hebrew
children born be killed by drowning in the river Nile. Jochebed, the wife of
the Levite Amram, bore a son and kept him concealed for three
months.When she could keep him hidden no longer, rather than deliver
him to be killed, she set him adrift on the Nile River in a small craft of
bulrushes coated in pitch. In the Biblical account, Moses' sister Miriam
observed the progress of the tiny boat until it reached a place where
Pharaoh's daughter, Thermuthis, (Bithiah) was bathing with her
handmaidens. It is said that she spotted the baby in the basket and had
her handmaiden fetch it for her. Miriam came forward and asked
Pharaoh's daughter if she would like a Hebrew woman to nurse the baby.[
Thereafter, Jochebed was employed as the child's nurse. He grew up and
was brought to Pharaoh's daughter and became her son and a younger
brother to the future Pharaoh of Egypt. Moses would not be able to
become Pharaoh because he was not the 'blood' son of Bithiah, and he
was the youngest.
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Resorces
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/moses.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses
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http://kmercer-thelionking.webs.com/moses.jpg
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http://worshippingchristian.org/biblestorymurals/images/Moses-Parts-the-Red-Sea%202.jpg
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http://worshippingchristian.org/biblestorymurals/images/Baby%20Moses.jpg
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http://www.nohomethodistpodcasting.com/NoHomethodist%20Podcasting/Images/moses%20
and%20burning%20bush.jpg
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http://sawiggins.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/moses_with_tablets.jpg