8. Why and how did the nation renew its covenant with God across the river from Jericho?…
When Moses slammed his staff mightily on the ground, waves of students dressed in red and white rolled to either side. The Red Sea parted.…
Yaweh demanded that the Israelites be let go. "Who is Yaweh?" (p.113) was Pharaoh's response, to which was returned by the ten plagues, each plague destroying an Egyptian god. Humans are made in God's image, we are taught to be "God-like" but we are to do so without actually being God. We are promised that along our journey in being "God-like" the sins we fall short of are to be forgiven.…
Moses: The holy book of Judaism is the Torah. It is composed of 39 books creating the complete Old Testament, or Hebrew Bible.…
There was a Plague that God had put on Egypt called the Nile turn to blood. Once I read the passage I realized the many powers of God. He told Moses he would make him like God to Pharaoh and he was to say everything that God had commended him to say. God told Moses to tell Pharaoh to let his people go which was the Israelites. Pharaoh who had a hard heart did not listen to Moses and did not let the people go instead he asked Moses to perform a miracle and then he would. God gave Moses and Aaron the power to do so and turned their staff into a snake but Pharaoh’s Magicians was able to do the same.…
The Book of Exodus tells the story of social tension between the Israelites and the Egyptians. The pharaoh of Egypt decided to oppress the Israelites and make them fearful because the Pharaoh himself felt threatened by the Israelites growing population. The Egyptians “Made their (the Israelites) lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all…
Many great lessons about how God takes care of his people are found in the book of Exodus. In the book of Exodus we learn about the 10 plauges and about how Pharoah finally let the People go. We learn about God performing the great miracle when he Parted the Red Sea, and lead the people out of Egypt, freeing them from slavery.…
Dr. Rabbi Tzemah Yoreh discusses how the stories of the plagues from the book of Exodus came to be according to the Four Source Theory in his essay, “The Three Redactional and Theological Layers of the Plagues”. According to his research, the plagues were originally written by the E source, but these original plagues are much different than the ones found in the current canon. In this version, Moses is chosen by God to bring the Israelites out from Egypt and he is to perform this task by himself. When Pharaoh doesn’t let the Israelites go, Moses puts three plagues on Egypt, hail, locusts, and darkness. There is no warning given, no negotiations made with Pharaoh, and, quite significantly, no assistance from God. Then the J source comes in, which produces a story that is more similar to the one that can be found in the Bible. With the J source, God’s role in the plagues is added, five more plagues are also added bringing the total to eight, and the element of Pharaoh hardening his heart. Pharaoh also begins to receive some warning regarding the plagues.…
God inflicted a series of plagues upon Egypt because the Pharaoh refused to let the people go:…
Oppressed by the Pharaoh, the Israelites were subjugated and forced to do the bidding of Egyptian society. Even with Moses, their connection to God, the Israelites still lacked the means to break free from the chains of Pharaoh. They required God's assistance in order to escape slavery. The miracles that wreaked havoc upon Egypt at the command of Moses and Aaron are generally known as the “plagues” of Egypt, the exact number depends on how people differentiate them. In terms of narrative structure, some passages refer to them as signs from God rather than plagues. In the beginning Exodus, the main source of the Israelites problems was the Pharaoh and his administration, not the whole civilization of Egyptians. However, the plagues that God…
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:…
"Days later I woke up to hear a strang rumbling throughout the city. When I listened more closely, it sound like croaking. I looked outside and saw the land was covered with frogs! They were in the river, over the roads, on the rooftops, in the wells, and all over Pharaoh's palace! It was an amazing sight!" "Where did they come from Simeon asked his grandfather. "Moses had warned Pharaoh that many terrible plagues would fall over Egypt if God's people were not set free," Shaul explained. "This was one of those plagues. It was not the first sign that God sent to Egypt, and it would not be the last. Pharaoh promised to set the Israelites free, if only Moses would ask God to take the frogs away. But when the frogs were gone, Pharaoh broke his promise. "God sent swarms of flies upon Egypt, he made the Egyptians cattle sick, he pounded the land with hailstorms, and he took away the sunshine. Each time these tragedies fell on Egypt, Moses went to Pharaoh and demanded, "Let God's people…
In the bible we see multiple instances where god puts people to the ultimate test. No one ever disobeys god and his ruling but they do question why they are doing this to themselves but they don’t let that affect them and they continue to listen to god and his orders. One of the stories that sticks out to me is about the pharaoh and him never obeying god till god had ruined his crops land and had taken his only son from him. "I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely (Exodus 11:1)”. “Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well (Exodus 11:5)”.…
Because of Pharaoh’s refusal, God sent plagues. These plagues included sending frogs, boils, and darkness to the land of Egypt. In most of the plagues, however, the Israelites were not affected. God kept sending these plagues until the last plague, the plague that took the lives of all the firstborn sons of Ancient Egypt. After that plague, Pharaoh decided to let the Israelites go. After the Israelites started exiting Egypt, Pharaoh had second thoughts and sent his army after them. Then, the Israelites were cornered at the Red Sea. The Israelites started complaining to Moses, saying that they would be better off working at Egypt, and crying that they were all going to die. At that moment, Moses does something extraordinary.…
According to Akuapem (Guan) tradition, Kwame Frimpong-Manson Anokye (a.k.a. Okomfo Anokye) was the son of Ano, a quiet and physically weak father, and Manubea, an energetic, talkative and sentimental mother (Some texts say his father’s name was Agya Annor, whilst his mother’s was Maarne Nkob). They were native of Awukugua, a town in the “Nifa” (Right) Division of the Akuapem state in Eastern Region. It is said that when Okomfo Anokye was born, he was holding in his right hand a short white tail of a cow (bodua) and he also clenched the left fist and no could open it. The woman who went to deliver the laboring mother tried to open it because she suspected there was something in it. The father was called in to assist, and immediately the father came in and touched the hand of Okomfo Anokye, he opened his hand staring at the father and said, “Ano… kye,” meaning in the Guan language “Ano… look.” He gave what he was holding to his father, and it was alleged it was a talisman. From this incident, Kwame got his name, “Anokye”.…