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The burning bush (or the unburnt bush) refers to an event recorded in the Jewish Torah (as also in the biblical Old Testament and Islamic scripture). It is described in the third chapter of the Book of Exodus [ 1 ] as having occurred on Mount Horeb .
According to the Hebrew Bible, in the encounter of the burning bush (Exodus 3:14), Moses asks what he is to say to the Israelites when they ask what gods have sent him to them, and YHWH replies, "I am who I am", adding, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I am has sent me to you. ' " [4] Despite this exchange, the Israelites are never written to have asked Moses for the name of God. [13]
Moses Striking the Rock at Horeb, engraving by Gustave Doré from "La Sainte Bible", 1865. The name Horeb first occurs at Exodus 3:1, with the story of Moses and the burning bush. [11] According to Exodus 3:5, the ground of the mountain was considered holy, and Moses was commanded by God to remove his sandals.
The staff is first mentioned in the Exodus 4:2, when God appears to Moses in the burning bush. God asks what Moses has in his hand, and Moses answers, "a staff" ("a rod" in the King James Version). The staff is miraculously transformed into a snake and then back into a staff.
An epithet of Moses in Baháʼí scriptures is the "One Who Conversed with God". [167] According to the Baháʼí Faith, Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the faith, is the one who spoke to Moses from the burning bush. [168]
Mount Sinai, showing the approach to Mount Sinai, 1839 painting by David Roberts, in The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia. The biblical account of the giving of the instructions and teachings of the Ten Commandments was given in the Book of Exodus, primarily between chapters 19 and 24, during which Sinai is mentioned by name twice, in Exodus 19:2; 24:16.
Allegorical interpretation of the Bible is an interpretive method that ... Judith, who slew a tyrant is a Marian type; the burning bush, which contains the fire of ...
The name of God associated with Keter is "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh" (Hebrew: אהיה אשר אהיה), the name through which he revealed himself to Moses from the burning bush. [1] Keter, although being the highest sefirah of its world, receives from the sefirah of Malkuth of the domain above it (see Sephirot).