the patriarch that lead the people of Israel from Egypt to the Promised Land
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Can God Change his mind?
I was recently thinking about the passage in exodus that talks about how the Israelites fell into sin while Moses was up on the mountain. God said that he would destroy all the Israelites but Moses ...
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How much did Moses and Elijah know about Jesus' Imminent Death?
Luke 9:31 (NLT 1996) [Moses and Elijah] were glorious to see. And they were speaking of how [Jesus] was about to fulfill God's plan by dying in Jerusalem.
Shortly before, Jesus had told his ...
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What is the religion of the Midian people?
In Exodus, Moses leaves Egypt and lives with the people in Midian for a few years (Exodus 2:15). I'm wondering what Moses' religious environment was like while he was living there. I know his ...
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What is the significance of Jesus and the Mount of Transfiguration?
Matthew, Mark and Luke all record the story of Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration. Matthew's version is provided below.
It seems that each writer simply records that the event occurred, but none ...
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Did Moses see the face of God?
Exodus 24:9-11
9 Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel
went up
10 and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something
like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, ...
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What was written on the two stone tablets of Moses?
What I understand in Exodus 20-23 is that the words are continuous words spoken by God. We know that Moses was given two stone tablets and the commands were written on it by God's own hand.
I wonder ...
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Paul's knowledge of Jannes and Jambres the magicians of Egypt
Per Paul in:
2 Timothy 3:8 ESV
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the
truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.
Which is cross ...
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Who was Pharaoh when Moses lived in Egypt?
Do we have a good idea as to which Pharaoh(s) were around during the time of Moses' life? What internal and external evidence exists to back-up those claims? Do any Christian traditions attach any ...
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Where did Moses write about Jesus?
Jesus said that Moses wrote about Him:
If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.
John 5:46
Where did Moses write about Jesus? My thoughts were:
And I will put ...
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Why was God so upset with Moses for striking the rock the second time in the desert?
In Exodus, God commands Moses to strike a rock, and promises to make water flow in the desert for the people. Later on, God tells Moses to speak to a rock, promising to make water flow in the desert ...
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Does Numbers 16 describe the first earthquake?
Numbers 16 describes the Levites revolting against Moses and Aaron. In proving the Lord sent him to do all those things, Moses said
"But if the Lord brings about something totally new, and the ...
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Why does Moses have compassion that God lacks?
This question is inspired by this: Did God REALLY want to destroy the people of Israel?
God says to Moses:
The Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, they are an obstinate ...
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Did God REALLY want to destroy the people of Israel?
When Moses led the people of Israel through the desert, there were two interesting occasions when God wanted to destroy the people of Israel and start over. (There may be more occasions that I don't ...
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Do we have the right ten commandments?
While we usually refer to Exodus 20 as the Ten Commandments, and many versions of the Bible add the heading "The Ten Commandments", the phrase is not actually used there in the text of the Bible. (It ...
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Does Jude 1:9 mean that Moses went to hell?
Jude 1:9
Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he
disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a
reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke ...
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What is the significance of the burning bush?
In Exodus 3, God reveals himself to Moses through the sign of a burning bush, which miraculously is not consumed by the flames. Here is Exodus 3:1-6 in the NRSV:
Moses was keeping the flock of his ...
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Why is the second set of ten commandments different?
The first stone tablets with the ten commandments were smashed by Moses, so God created a second set of stone tablets that were supposed to contain the same commandments as the smashed tablets. But ...
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Who represented “the Lord” in Exodus 4:24-26, and what's the deal with the foreskin?
In Exodus 4:24-26:
At a lodging place on the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him. But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it. “Surely ...
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What was the reasons for documentary hypothesis?
Documentary Hypothesis assumes that the text of the Torah as
preserved can be divided into identifiable sources that predate its
compilations by centuries, the Jahwist (J) source being the ...
