How Moses Led The Israelites Out Of Egypt

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The piece of art I chose to study was the story of how Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt. This story can be found in the second book of the Bible, Exodus. The story begins with Moses being found by the Pharaoh’s daughter after being given up by his mother. The Pharaoh’s daughter took Hebrew Moses as her own and raised him. One day Moses saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, Moses intervened and actually killed the Egyptian. Moses became frightened and fled. Years later God appeared to Moses in a burning bush and told him “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians

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