Grandma Moses

Furthermore, the topic of ‘planning and budgeting’ can be compared to the story of Moses and the Second Census of Israel in The Book of Numbers, Chapter 26:1-7. The story states that “the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saying, Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers’ house, all that are able to go to war in Israel…and they that were numbered were forty and three thousand and…

It is obvious that Samson is one of the strongest men of the bible. In this paper, I will summarize the story of Samson and determine if Samson was portrayed as a hero in the bible. My conclusion will provide details to support my opinion about the bible’s portrayal of Samson. According to the Bible, Samson’s father, Manoah, was married to a barren, unnamed woman. One day, while Manoah’s wife was minding her own business, an angel appears and he tells her that she will give birth to a son. The…

In Chapter three and four of Exodus, Moses has an encounter with God. God appears before Moses in the form of a burning bush to give him a mission; he is to go to Egypt to talk to Pharaoh about releasing the Israelites from slavery in the land. This passage is significant, because it establishes the employing of Moses to speak for God to both the Pharaoh and the Israelites. The commission that Moses is given in this passage is what leads to the Exodus, the giving of the Law at Mt. Sinai, and the…

forty years after the Israelites were sentenced to wander in the wilderness, Moses started telling the people what God had told him about them. Moses reminded the people of all of the events that had happened to them. He reminded them what God had promised, the sins that they committed against God, and the punishments that God had put upon them as a nation. He told them it was now time to enter into the Promised Land. Moses reminded the nation that they had to be obedient to God. He…

On Har Sinai, Every mitzvah Hashem told Moshe, Moshe would explain the mitzvah with details. The Torah was given to all the Jewish people and they would teach it to each other and write them down, and remember the explanation of them, which is now called the Torah Shebichtav and the Torah SheBal Peh. The regular rules were given on Har Sinai. When Moshe was about to die, he told the Jewish people that if anyone forgot anything or needed help with anything they should go to him. Yehoshua talked…

When he was three months old, Moses was hidden in a basket set afloat in the Nile to escape Pharaoh's decree that all male Hebrew children be drowned; he was retrieved from the river by Pharaoh's daughter, Batyah, who raised him in the palace. At age 20, Moses fled Egypt after killing an Egyptian he saw beating a Jew and made his way to Midian, where he married Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro, and fathered two sons, Gershom and EliezerWhen he was three months old, Moses was hidden in a basket…

In Genesis 9 of the Common English Bible, the Divine Creator is named Elohim, the Strong One. The promise of Elohim was presented in Genesis 9 verse 11 stating, “I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.” Additionally Elohim offered the bow, or rainbow, as a reminder of his covenant with Noah – perhaps to impart to humanity His power and mercy concerning life on earth. Elohim…

to die stacking bricks for Pharaoh’s tomb. How Moses convinced the Pharaoh to release us, I cannot fathom. Today was the most terrifying day of my life. Pharaoh sent out his men to retrieve us and enslave us again. We were hemmed by the Red Sea in front and the army behind. I, at the time, wondered what Moses would do because all he had done was cry out to G-d. Today I walked across the Red Sea on dry ground. It was a miracle! Moses held out his staff and the sea parted like…

Hypothesis of Julius Wellhausen The documentary hypothesis ( Wellhausen hypothesis ) believes that the Torah or the five books of Moses was derived from originally independent, parallel and complete narrative, where it was combined into the current for by a number of editors. In an attempt to reconcile in the 18th and 19th century biblical scholars using sources eventually arrived at the theory that the Torah was composed together from several, each…

The stories of Samson and Ruth offer an interesting contrast in regards to who was more faithful to Torah. Ruth, who is suffering greatly after losing her husband converts to Judaism, “…your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die, I will die…” (Ruth 1:16). Boaz recognized that Ruth had surrendered to God when he says, “I have been fully informed of all that you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the…