Moses mother protected him. Being unable to nurse him, she hired a Hebrew woman to do the job. He grew up in the palace but knew he was a Hebrew. We know we deal with fear, but so did Moses. Pharaoh found out what Moses had done and tried to kill him. Moses ran for his life. He lived out in the desert of Midian for 40 years, became a husband to Tharbis and Zipporah, and a father to Gershom and Eliezer. God wanted Moses to rescue the Israelites from Egypt.
Moses was afraid and gave excuse after excuse, one being that he stuttered. In the seventh plague, God gave a warning to bring people and animals indoors, giving the Egyptians a chance to listen to him. Hail devastated the land and killed every person and animal that had been left out in the open—except for in Goshen.
The ninth plague brought total darkness on the land for three days. Interestingly, the Israelites apparently still had light in Goshen Exodus The final plague was likely a judgment of Pharaoh himself, who the Egyptians believed to be a god. In Exodus 1, a different Pharaoh ordered Egyptian midwives to kill the sons of Israel. As Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt with the help of a pillar of cloud and pillar of fire , Pharaoh changed his mind classic Pharaoh and sent out his chariots to slaughter them.
The angel of God stalled Pharaoh and his army along with the pillar of cloud, and meanwhile, Moses held out his staff over the Red Sea, and God sent a strong wind to part it. God wanted to demonstrate his power again, this time delivering the Israelites from an entire army:.
The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left. During the last watch of the night the Lord looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion.
He jammed the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving. The Lord is fighting for them against Egypt.
The Egyptians were fleeing toward it, and the Lord swept them into the sea. The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea.
Not one of them survived. But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left. That day the Lord saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore. And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant. Unfortunately, even after all this, the Pentateuch records numerous instances where the Israelites failed to trust Moses, and by extension, God.
The Ten Commandments are one of the most widely-recognized parts of the entire Bible. He gave these tablets to Moses, and Moses brought them down to the Israelites. But, oops, the Israelites broke the very first commandment before God was even done writing, and Moses broke the tablets in a fit of rage Exodus Interestingly, Exodus seems to indicate God would write the tablets as he had before, but then Exodus —28 tells us that Moses wrote the Ten Commandments himself.
In writing or at least handing off the Ten Commandments, Moses had an immeasurable influence on the morality of not just the Jewish people, but the world.
And the Ten Commandments still influence the way many people think about right and wrong today. Moses was on Mount Sinai for a long time. They told his brother Aaron:. He was literally in the middle of telling Moses to tell the Israelites not to do this.
But what happens next still feels like a pretty extreme reaction. Moses comes down from the mountain, smashes the tablets which God himself wrote on , and then melts the golden calf, grinds it to powder, mixes it with water, makes the Israelites drink it , and commanded the faithful to slaughter everyone else which wound up being about 3, people. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.
Just before this, Moses talked God out of pushing the reset button and wiping out all the Israelites Exodus Nearly everything Moses did was met with grumbling, resistance, or outright rebellion from the Israelites. They complained about their circumstances. Every step of the way on their exodus from Egypt, the Israelites groaned that they had been better off as slaves.
This was one of their favorite lines of complaint. With every new obstacle, there was some faction that wanted to throw in the towel and give up. This serial grumbling culminates in the book of Numbers, when Moses leads Israel right to the edge of the promised land. Shortly after scouting out the land God had promised them, the Israelites decided conquering the promised land looked so hard that they really should just turn around and head for Egypt.
They even went so far as to propose selecting a new leader to take them back since Moses was obviously committed to going to the promised land , and they prepared to stone Moses and Aaron. This was the last straw. God wanted to wipe them all out and start a new nation with Moses, but Moses persuaded him to forgive the Israelites instead.
Still, as a consequence for this act of rebellion, the Israelites were forced to wander the desert for 40 years—until those who rebelled grew old and died. After the children of Israel crossed the Red Sea on dry land, the waters closed up, drowning the mighty Egyptian army. To celebrate their deliverance, God composed a song and instructed Moses to write it down and teach it to the congregation.
Moses did, however, transcribe the law as given to him by God. These writings compose part of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament. His long and varied life can be divided into three parts, each 40 years long.
The first as the son of an Egyptian pharaoh, the second as a shepherd, and the third as the esteemed leader of Israel. At the time of his death, he still had perfect eyesight and incredible strength Deu. God instructed him to commission Joshua as his replacement, then climb Mt. There he showed him the Promised Land, and there he died. This edition is a one-volume hardcover version. Image by Used under license from Veer. Based on a work at www.
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