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...names him Moses. The name is connected to a Hebrew verb indicating that she drew him from the water. Many scholars, however, think it derives from an Egyptian suffix meaning "to be born"--just as Rameses, who was considered divine, is a form of Ra-Moses, or "the god Ra is born...
There was a bush all aflame, yet the bush was not consumed... God called to him out of the bush: "Moses! Moses...
Like many prophets to come, Moses is reluctant to take up the burden. "I have marked well the plight of my people in Egypt and have heeded their outcry," announces God. "I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians." Moses responds with excuses and conditions: "I am slow of tongue and slow of speech." This line caused some religious scholars to assume Moses stuttered; others inferred a more serious speech impediment. "Who am I," he asks, to help undertake this mission? And who, exactly, is God to ask it? "Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh," replies the deity, which has been...
After the ninth plague, God warns Moses that the Israelites should sacrifice a lamb and paint their doorways with its blood. And that midnight, in a scene equally eerie in the Bible, live-action movie or animated cartoon, God kills the Egyptian firstborn males. A great cry goes up in Egypt. Is there archaeological evidence of this disaster? Weeks' discovery of the tomb of the sons of Rameses II at first led to much excitement. Could it provide evidence of the final plague? Weeks says there is no way to know whether one of the sons in the tomb...
...outstretched arm. Before the miracle, as the Israelites saw Pharaoh's warriors bearing down on them, they had asked Moses, "Was it for want of graves in Egypt that you brought us to die in the wilderness?" But now they broke into what Jack Miles, in his book God: A Biography, calls "one of the great, exultant victory songs in all literature," the Song of the Sea, in the 15th chapter of Exodus. An ancient rabbinical commentary elaborated, "Even the sucklings dropped their mothers' breasts to join in singing, yea, even the embryos in the womb joined the melody...