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  2. Moses - Wikipedia

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    Through Moses God instituted the Old Law, on which account he is called the mediator of the Old Law. As such, Moses was a striking type of Jesus Christ, who instituted the New Law. Moses, as a child, was condemned to death by a cruel king, and was saved in a wonderful way; Jesus Christ was condemned by Herod, and also wonderfully saved. Moses ...

  3. Jochebed - Wikipedia

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    According to traditional rabbinic biblical chronology, Moses was 80 years old when the Exodus occurred, the Israelites had been in Egypt for 210 years in total, and thus in combination with the rabbinical claim that Jochebed was born on the border of Egypt, as her parents had entered it, this would require Jochebed to have been 130 years old ...

  4. Pharaoh's daughter (Exodus) - Wikipedia

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    The Exodus 2:5) does not give a name to Pharaoh's daughter or to her father; she is referred to in Hebrew as Baṯ-Parʿo (Hebrew: בת־פרעה), "daughter of Pharaoh." [1] The Book of Jubilees 47:5 and Josephus both call her Thermouthis (Greek: Θερμουθις), also transliterated as Tharmuth and Thermutis, the Greek name of Renenutet, a fertility deity depicted as an Egyptian cobra.

  5. Book of Exodus - Wikipedia

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    While tending Jethro's flock, Moses encounters God in a burning bush. Moses asks God for his name, to which God replies with three words, often translated as "I Am that I Am." This is the book's explanation for the origin of the name Yahweh, as God is thereafter known. God tells Moses to return to Egypt, free the Hebrews from slavery and lead ...

  6. Moses in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Mūsā ibn ʿImrān (Arabic: موسى ابن عمران, lit. ' Moses, son of Amram ') [1] is a prominent prophet and messenger of God and is the most frequently mentioned individual in the Quran, with his name being mentioned 136 times and his life being narrated and recounted more than that of any other prophet.

  7. Ark of bulrushes - Wikipedia

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    The ark, containing the three-month-old baby Moses, was placed in reeds by the river bank [1] (presumably the Nile) to protect him from the Egyptian mandate to drown every male Hebrew child, [2] and discovered there by Pharaoh's daughter.

  8. Burning bush - Wikipedia

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    When Moses starts to approach, God tells Moses to take off his sandals first due to the place being a sacred space. [8] The voice from the bush, which later self-discloses as Yahweh, reveals himself as "the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob" [9] and thus Moses hides his face. [9] Moses and the burning bush.

  9. Timeline of the Hebrew prophets - Wikipedia

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    the Exodus from Egypt (prophecy of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam) the Land of Israel ... one after the other as well as providing a backdrop of God's eternal, unshakeable ...