Carlos Perez
Clay Rooks
English 12
February 10, 2016
Moses
Moses came at a perfect time when his people needed him the most and were being persecuted by the Pharaoh. Pharaoh at the time had ordered the children of the Israelites to be killed, also putting the men into jails and making women into servants. All this because someone told him that a child from the Israelites would bring down his kingdom. The Pharaoh also had any male babies born to Israelites killed. So Moses’ father and mother, Amram and Jochebed, they weren’t afraid of Pharaoh’s and hid Moses for a couple of months. They were able to hide him because he was wasn’t noticed by the people outside of his home but as he grew older that quickly changed and he became loud and hard to hide,
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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,
God wanted Moses to lead his people out of Egypt. He eventually took up the mantle and made his return to Egypt. This began the third 40 year period. Upon return to Egypt, he patterned up with his brother, Aaron in taking up the task to lead the Israelites. God worked through Moses to inflict 10 plagues on the Egyptians as Pharaoh initially refused to let the Israelites go, the last of them finally persuaded Pharaoh to let the Israelites go.
Despite the achievements contribution of the great number of most powerful men throughout the history, Moses is one of the most influential figures in the history of mankind. Being a son of Israel, he is a greatest prophet who received the Ten Commandments from God himself on Mount Sinai. Indeed, the contribution of Moses is innumerable. He is a father of Judaism, and he also influenced two most powerful world religions - Christianity and Islam. In addition to that, Moses is the leader, liberator of slaves, and the commander of the army of invaders.
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.
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.
About 500 years after the death of Abraham, his descendants through Isaac were living in Egypt as slaves. Genesis 37 to 50 tells the story of how this came about. The 10 oldest sons of Abraham's grandson Jacob disliked their younger brother Joseph so much that they found a way to sell him to traders who in turn sold him to an Egyptian officer as a slave. In his new land, Joseph went through a series of ups and downs and eventually became the prime minister of Egypt, the highest official under the king. God enabled Joseph to foresee an approaching time of famine, and used him to store up food and then distribute it during the famine. His political position made it possible for him to settle his father's family in Egypt's most fertile territory. Here they prospered for many years. However, the time came when the leaders of Egypt began to view the rapidly growing Israelite community as a threat. As a result, they made slaves of the Israelites, treating them with ever-increasing harshness. Finally, desperate because the descendants of Jacob continued to multiply, they issued an order that all their male babies be destroyed at birth. The first 12 chapters of Exodus tell the story of how the Lord responded to the cries of His people. He miraculously provided Moses to be their leader, sent 10 plagues on the Egyptians, helped the Israelites celebrate their first Passover, and led them out of the land of bondage. It appears that as they left for Canaan, they had no
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
When Moses (Musa) returned from Mount Sinai to the company of the pharaoh, he battled with all the magis under pharaoh’s command. The rod and staff are symbols of that might and power. The FOA acknowledges that the skills, Moses used to defeat the clergy of pharaoh were not only his mastery in magic, but that he possessed skills in the martial arts. At that time the magicians of Egypt were masters of the natural elements, represented as the snake’s staff. (A symbol used today called the caduceus as the wisdom in Medicine) Magic was at its highest peak just like the Pyramids. Moses bested them with a technique he learned from God (The sixth element//Intelligence) while in exile at Mount Sinai. Moses skills with the Staff also proved that Egypt had a stick fighting style 4000 years ago. Moses learned the ancient techniques of the Sphinxes during his early years as a prince in Egypt.
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
Go down Moses” is one of the many slave spiritual songs reflecting how slaves felt during their time of slavery. As many of the slave spiritual songs, it reflects the feelings and desires of a better life many slaves wanted. The song calls for Moses; the Bible tells the Exodus story; God commands Moses to go to the Pharaoh and give him a very clear message on His behalf “let my people go”. The Israelites were held in captivity in Egypt, therefore God command the Pharaoh to let them free from slavery. God chose Moses to free his people; so Moses did as God had told him to, and went to the Pharaoh and demanded that they be put in liberty. After, he took the Israelites out of Egypt to the dessert where they live for 40 years. The song “Go down
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
Then the LORD became very angry, and Moses was displeased. So Moses said to the LORD, "Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a sucking child,' to the land that you promised on oath to their ancestors? Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they come weeping to me and say, 'Give us meat to eat!' I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me. If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once – if I have found favor in your sight – and do not let me see my misery" (Num 11:
It starts off with Egypt 's tyrannical Pharaoh, who orders all newborn males to be killed. A woman (who is Moses ' mother), saves her baby by placing him in the Nile river. Soon after, Pharaoh’s daughter finds this baby and brings him up in the house of Pharaoh. Moses knows about his Hebrew roots and one day, kills an Egyptian who is physically abusing an Israelite. He then flees to a town called Midian. He meets a priest and marries his daughter. He then begins his new married life as a shepherd. God speaks to Moses in the form of a burning bush. He tells Moses to go back to Egypt in order to lead the Hebrews to the land promised to Abraham. After Moses returns to Egypt, he tries to convince the Pharaoh to release the Israelites, but to no avail. He performs miracles, such as transforming his staff into a snake, but Pharaoh is not impressed. God then afflicts Egypt with ten plagues. Prior to each plague, Moses asks Pharaoh to release the Israelites, but Pharaoh denies each time. The final plague results in the killing of all firstborn males. In the end, Pharaoh releases more than half a million Israelites. Moses tells his people to celebrate this day, the Passover, as this was the day they were liberated by God from slavery. Moses then takes
At the age of 20, Moses killed a man he witnessed killing a Jew, and then fled Egypt to Midian, where he married Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro, having two sons, Eliezer and Gershom. At the age of 80, in the Jewish religion tradition, God
In the book of Exodus, Moses had left his home under the Egyptian monarchy and fled to Midian after learning of his Jewish ancestry, but when God had spoken to him to free his people, he took the responsibility, despite his own fears. At first, Moses believed that he was not worthy of this great task God had presented to him, questioning God that “who [was he] that [he] should go to [the] Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt” (Exodus 3:11). Nevertheless, Moses still returned to Egypt to do what God had asked of him because he
Moses was a chosen leader, hand chosen by God for a purpose. God instilled leadership characteristics in him from the time of Moses’s birth. These characteristics: integrity, faith, confidence, listening abilities, teachable, obedience, foresight, diligence, and determination prepared Moses for the work that God had for him. During the time of Pharaohs’ decree to kill all male babies born, Moses’s mother knew he was special. She hid his birth for three months and fearing for her son’s life, she devised a plan to save his life. When Pharaoh’s daughter discovered this Hebrew child floating in a basket at the edge of the river, her sister suggested she find a Hebrew woman to nurse him. Even as a baby, provision was made to instill