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The Israelites are Enable...
John Millais
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Mo'ses. (Hebrew, Mosheh. "drawn", that is, from the water; in the Coptic, it means, "saved from the water"). The legislator of the Jewish people, and, in a certain sense, the founder of the Jewish religion. The immediate pedigree of Moses is as follows:

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Moses Breaking the Tablet...
Gustave Dore
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Moses and the Burning Bush
James Tissot
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Levi was the father of: Gershon, Kohath, Merari

Kohath was the father of: Amram = Jochebed

Amram = Jochebed was the father of: Hur = Miriam, Aaron = Elisheba, Moses = Zipporah

Aaron = Elisheba was the father of: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, Ithamar

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Moses Saved from the Water
Nicolas Poussin
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Moses and the Tablets of ...
Laurent La Hyre
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Eleazar was the father of: Phineas

Moses = Zipporah was the father of: Gershom, Eliezer

Gershom was the father of: Jonathan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Moses Receiving the Table...
Lorenzo Ghiberti
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The Finding of Moses by Pharaoh's Dau...
Sir Alma-Tadema
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The history of Moses. Naturally. Divides itself into three periods of 40 years each. Moses was born at Goshen, in Egypt, B.C. 1571.

The story of his birth is thoroughly Egyptian in its scene.

His mother made extraordinary efforts for his preservation, from the general destruction, of the male children of Israel.

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Moses (Full View, Right S...
Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Moses' Rod is Turned into...
James Tissot
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For three months, the child was concealed in the house. Then, his mother placed him in a small boat or basket of papyrus, closed against the water by bitumen. This was placed among the aquatic vegetation, by the side of one of the canals, of the Nile. The sister lingered to watch her brother's fate.

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Moses
Jusepe Ribera
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Moses at the Well at Midian
James Tissot
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The Egyptian princess, who, tradition says, was a childless wife, came down to bathe in the sacred river. Her attendant slaves followed her. She saw the basket in the flags, and despatched divers, who brought it. It was opened, and the cry of the child moved the princess to compassion. She determined to rear it as her own.

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Moses Sees the Promised L...
James Tissot
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Landscape with the Findin...
Claude Lorrain
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The sister was at hand to recommend a Hebrew nurse, the child's own mother.Here was the first part of Moses' training, -- a training, at home, in the true religion, in faith in God, in the promises to his nation, in the life of a saint, -- a training which he never forgot, even amid the splendors and gilded sin of Pharaoh's court.

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Moses Smashing the Tablet...
Rembrandt van Rijn
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Moses and Aaron Go Up to ...
James Tissot
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The child was adopted by the princess.

From this time, for many years, Moses must be considered as an Egyptian. In the Pentateuch, this period is a blank, but in the New Testament, he is represented as "learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians," and as "mighty in words and deeds;" Act_7:22;

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Pharaoh's Daughter Receives the Mothe...
James Tissot
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Moses Smiteth the Rock in the Desert
James Tissot
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The second period of Moses' life began when he was forty years old.

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Moses Defends Jethro's Daughters
James Tissot
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The Finding of Moses
Eduard IhlC)e
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Seeing the sufferings of his people, Moses determined to go to them as their helper, and made his great life-choice, "choosing rather to suffer affliction, with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt." Heb_11:25-26.

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Moses with the Renewed Ta...
Philippe Champaigne
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The Finding of Moses, c.1...
Paolo Veronese
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He was compelled to leave Egypt, when the slaying of the Egyptian became known, and he fled to the land of Midian, in the southern and southeastern part of the Sinai peninsula. There was a famous well, ("the well,"). Exo_2:15, surrounded by tanks for the watering of the flocks of the Bedouin herdsmen.

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The Journey of Moses, circa 1481-83
Pietro Perugino
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Moses, Detail from the He...
Claus Sluter
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The third period of forty years in Moses' life.

He meets Aaron, his next younger brother, whom God permitted to be the spokesman, and together, they return to Goshen in Egypt. From this time, the history of Moses is the history of Israel, for the next forty years.

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Moses
Lesser Ury
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Moses Divides the Waters of the Red Sea
Christopher Eckersberg
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As a leader, his life divides itself into the three epochs -- the march to Sinai; the march from Sinai to Kadesh, and the conquest of the TransJordanic kingdoms.

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Moses Drawing Water from the Rock
Sebastiano Ricci
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The Finding of Moses
Adriaen Stalbemt
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His character as a prophet is, from the nature of the case, more distinctly brought out. He is the first, as he is the greatest example of a prophet in the Old Testament.

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The Finding of Moses
Giambettino Cignaroli
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Moses Blesseth Joshua Before the High...
James Tissot
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The song of Moses, Deu_32:1-43, setting forth the greatness and the failings of Israel.

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Moses Strikes the Rock
Raphael
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German Bible: Story of Moses
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The blessing of Moses on the tribes, Deu_33:1-29.

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Finding of Moses
Bernardo Cavallino
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Moses and Aaron Speak to the People
James Tissot
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The book of Deuteronomy describes, and is, the long last farewell of the prophet to his people. This takes place on the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year of the wanderings, in the plains of Moab. Deu_1:3; Deu_1:5.

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Moses (Detail of Face)
Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Moses Laid Amid the Flags
James Tissot
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Moses is described as 120 years of age, but with his sight and his freshness of strength unabated. Deu_34:7. Joshua is appointed his successor. The law is written out and ordered to be deposited in the ark. Deuteronomy 31

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Moses Leaveth Pharaoh in Anger
James Tissot
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