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Moses (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה, Stanard Moshe Tiberian Mōšeh; Greek Mωυσής in both the Septuagint and the New Testament; Arabic: موسىٰ, Mūsa; Ge'ez: ሙሴ, Musse) was a 13th century BCEBiblical Hebrew religious leader, lawgiver, prophet, and military leader, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed. He is also an important prophet in Judaism,Christianity,Islam, the Bahá'í Faith,Mormonism,Rastafari,Raëlism,Chrislam and many other faiths. According to the book of Exodus, Moses was born to a Hebrew mother who hid him when a Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew boys to be killed, and ended up being adopted into the Egyptian royal family. After killing an Egyptian slave master, he fled and became a shepherd, and was later commanded by God to deliver the Hebrews from slavery. After the Ten Plagues were unleashed on Egypt, he led the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt, through the Red Sea, where they wandered in the desert for 40 years. Despite living to 120, he did not enter the Land of Israel, as he disobeyed God when God instructed him on how to bring forth water from a rock in the desert.

Trivia about moses

  • This biblical figure's name comes from the Hebrew word meaning "to be drawn" from the water
  • Fittingly, the book of Numbers begins with God telling this man to count the number of Israelites
  • When chosen by God to lead the Israelites, he said "But I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue"
  • This boy escaped Pharaoh's order to kill all male Hebrew babies
  • In Exodus 24:12 God said to him, "I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments..."
  • "Go Down..."
  • The Torah is also known as the 5 books of this leader who, tradition says, wrote them down
  • Old Testament leader depicted here by Philippe de Champaigne:(holding Ten Commandments)
  • God's sending him up Sinai & Nebo made quite a mountain climber out of this sheepherder
  • In Exodus he floated on the Nile in a bulrush basket
  • When this Bible guy came down from the mountain & saw his people dancing before the golden calf, boy, was he upset!
  • In Exodus his wife is identified as Zipporah
  • In 4:22 he reveals, "I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan"
  • In Leviticus, God tells this lawgiver that if a ruler sins, he should use a young goat as a sin offering
  • Bulrush baby (5)
  • Michelangelo's works for Pope Julius II's tomb included an 8'4" statue of this Biblical lawgiver
  • Totally cool! This dude wrote Deuteronomy as a way of reinforcing what he first learned on Mount Sinai
  • God's name of Yahweh was first announced to this man
  • During a dialogue with God he received the Decalogue, a famous group of 10 obligations
  • Sculpted by Michelangelo around 1515, he's the Hebrew leader seen here
  • The pharaoh's daughter found him in an ark made of bulrushes
  • In Exodus 2:3 his mother set him afloat in a basket made of papyrus
  • Vitagraph's 1909 "Life of" this Biblical hero included a $10,000 scene of the parting of the Red Sea
  • When Pharaoh's daughter found this baby, she unknowingly chose his real mother as his nurse
  • (Alex presents the clue from Petra, Jordan.) Petra is built on a terrace overlooking Wadi Musa the valley of this man, who tradition says struck a rock here & made it gush with water
  • At the burning bush, God told him he was "the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob"
  • He was so angry at the Israelites, he pulverized their golden calf & made them devour it
  • In Exodus 5:1 he demands, "Let my people go"
  • Long before Joe Namath, this leader guaranteed a victory by holding up a hand in Exodus 17:11
  • "The Prince of Egypt" says Seti gave the order to kill the newborn Hebrews & adopted this Hebrew boy
  • This man asked Pharaoh to let his people go
  • Miriam & Aaron criticized this man, their brother, for marrying an Ethiopian
  • He's considered the author of the Pentateuch, which is hard to believe, as Deuteronomy continues after his death
  • According to the Book of Numbers, he sent 12 men to spy out the Land of Canaan
  • He was hidden for 3 months before an "ark of bulrushes" was built for him
  • "And the angel of the Lord appeared unto" this man "in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush"
  • Better behave! In Deuteronomy 28, this Israelite leader rains down shocking curses upon the disobedient
  • In Exodus 2:10 a woman "called his name" this: "and she said, because I drew him out of the water"
  • The Lord told him to "Lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it"
  • "He returned to the land of Egypt: and (he) took the rod of God in his hand"
  • "Who am I that I should go unto Pharaoh?"
  • He had to bare his feet before the burning bush because, as God said, he was on holy ground
  • Genesis is the first of the 5 books of him, also known as the Pentateuch
  • Make an exodus from the theatre after seeing Schoenberg's incomplete opera about this man & his brother Aaron
  • This 120-year-old man reported, "The Lord hath said unto me, thou shalt not go over" the Jordan
  • His mother Jochebed was hired to be his nurse by Pharaoh's daughter
  • In the 1570s Tintoretto painted this Biblical figure "Striking The Rock"
  • In the Bible, Aaron was this brother's mouthpiece in dealing with Pharaoh
  • While living in Midian, he married Zipporah
  • He says, "I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt"
  • Jochebed, this Egyptian prince's real mother, was the one who put him into the river in a basket
  • Around 1200 B.C. this Biblical man led his people to Canaan after their escape from slavery
  • In Exodus 3:14 "God said unto" this man, "I am that I am"
  • Pharaoh's daughter finds him floating in a basket in the Nile & raises him as her own son
  • You can cross over the Dead Sea on your way to Jordan's Mount Nebo, where this biblical figure is said to have died
  • In Exodus 6 Yahweh tells this man, "Say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord"
  • Holy this, be it Aaron's brother, the NBA's Mr. Malone or Grandma
  • Son of Amram & Jochebed
  • Chapters 4, 6, 8 & 12 begin, "And the Lord spake unto" him
  • Hebrews 3 says Jesus "was counted worthy of more glory than" this Old Testament man
  • Exodus 2:10 says "and she called his name" this (it's Exodus, folks)
  • Recipient of God's bad news "Thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither"
  • God's many commands to him include one in Numbers 26 to count all 600,000 men of Israel
  • "The Bear" is one of the stories in Faulkner's collection called "Go Down," him
  • In Exodus 18 he gets advice from his father-in-law Jethro
  • "But I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue"
  • In the Bible:"Let my people go!"
  • At the end of Deuteronomy, the events of this man's death are recounted
  • Stooge Moe Howard
  • This Israelite leader's last lines, in Deuteronomy 33, predict his people's conquest of their enemies
  • William Faulkner:"Go Down, ___"
  • When called by God to lead the Israelites in Exodus, he says, "but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue"
  • Miriam & Aaron answered this man's questions on the "Who's My Real Mother?" episode

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