the patriarch that lead the people of Israel from Egypt to the Promised Land
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Did Moses have more than one wife in his lifetime?
EX 3:1 Jethro was the father-in-law of Moses.
NU 10:29, JG 4:11 (KJV) Hobab was the father-in-law of Moses.
This seems to suggest that he did. Curious if anyone else has looked into this.
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What is the origin of the idea that Miriam, sister of Moses, was a virgin?
Church father Chromatius, writing around the turn of the 4th century, appeals to an interesting OT example to defend the perpetual virginity of Mary:
Remember that Miriam the prophetess of the Old ...
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Is belief in the suspension or replacement of any of the previous covenants necessary for salvation today?
Is belief in the suspension or replacement of any of the previous covenants necessary for salvation today?
To those who wants a longer wording: Is belief in the suspension or replacement of any of ...
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Is a Catholic dogma that Moses (as the Exodus prophet) actually existed?
"Modern scholars' consensus" is that:
there is no archaeological evidence that the events described in Exodus occurred.
Moses (as described in the Exodus and other books) is a legendary figure, and ...
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Why did Israel under Moses take a longer route to Canaan?
Following is an excerpt from http://free.messianicbible.com/holiday/crossing-red-sea-god-brings-us-long-way/
"When Moses took the Hebrew children out of Egypt, he could have taken a direct route and ...
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Were Prophets Moses and Aaron magicians? [closed]
It is a well known fact that the Bible contains many verses where magick is forbidden. Some examples are Exodus 22:18 and Deuteronomy 18:9-12. However, I find also in the Bible many verse that ...
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According to Catholicism, did Moses believe in the Trinity?
According to Catholicism, did Moses, and especially the Jewish people during his time, know that God is triune?
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What was the name of the Pharaoh during the time of Moses?
In the Bible it never mentions Pharaoh's name but every other king/queen is mentioned by name. Did I miss it? What's his name?
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Did Moses leave his wife and kids? If so, why?
Is this passage implying that Moses left his wife and children before he went into the wilderness?
If that's true, why did Moses leave his family?
Exodus 18:1-7 ESV Jethro, the priest of Midian, ...
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Did the Israelites/Hebrews have their own slaves or servants?
I have been reading in Exodus the Israelites had their own servants or slaves. Exodus also talks about some people almost becoming (?) an Israelite (or Hebrew, not sure if same thing) by performing a ...
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Did Moses have an Egyptian Stepbrother?
I have seen the Ten Commandments movie from the 1950’s and the Pharaoh has a son which grows up with Moses. This Phaorah dies and his son becomes the King/Phaorah. So Moses approaches this Pharaoh.....
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Moses' Age when moving to house of Pharaoh
How old was Moses when he went to live with Pharaoh's daughter?
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According to the Catholic Church, who taught Moses the Law?
Who taught Moses the Law? (Meaning the Law given to him on Sinai, that he would teach to all of Israel.)
Judaism says it was angels. What does the Catholic Church say?
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Confused About - Judism - Christanity - Hebrew Bible - Old Testament - New Testament! [closed]
I was watching a movie "Exodus - Gods and Kings" yesterday and I came to know about Moses. I am a Hindu by religion but I got curious about Moses and his deeds and how he brought changes to the lives ...
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How old was Moses when he parted the Red Sea and how old was he when he wrote the ten commandments
I'm trying to write a timeline of Moses's greatest achievements and this is all I haven't found so far. If you know what the two ages of Moses are in relation to these two events, please let me know, ...
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Why Moses is not Sargon I?
This is not going to be a question about the Bible or God but I believe that is related with the Christianity. I believe in God, I came to my Savior several years ago but recently a friend sent me a ...
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Why did the children of Israel run out of food in the wilderness, causing them to complain? [closed]
In the wilderness, the children of Israel on more than one occasion ran out of food and/or water to the point that they complained about it to Moses.
They probably had no way to get food or water on ...
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How did Zipporah know that God was going to kill Moses? [closed]
How did Zipporah come to know that God was going to kill Moses?
Exodus 4:24–25 (NASB)
Now it came about at the lodging place on the way that the LORD met him and sought to put him to death. 25 ...
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Prior to the burning bush event - what was Moses's knowledge of God?
We know that he went to live with the Egyptians from a young age to the age of more or less 40. He then lived in Midean for another 40. It seems that there was no contact with other Israelites. Or was ...
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How accurate is the movie Prince of Egypt? A few questions about Moses
I just watched the movie The Prince of Egypt (1998), and had a bunch of questions about Moses.
Did Moses know he was an Israelite before he killed the Egyptian? When did he know he was an Israelite?
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Why was the Angel Michael fighting the Devil for Moses' body? [closed]
I get this from the book of Jude. I know the meaning of the chapter as a whole it's just that this verse stuck out. Does anyone have a clue on this event? Here is the verse for reference.
Yet ...
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Abraham, Moses and God's names
In Exodus 6:2-3, why does God tell Moses that He is "the LORD" and that He did not make himself known to Abraham as "the LORD", but only as "God Almighty"? In Genesis 12, when God called Abraham to ...
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What's Moses up to nowadays?
I'm teaching tomorrow on the general judgment and need an answer about folks in heaven. I know Mary and Jesus are there body and soul. I think (although my teachers manual doesn't mention it in this ...
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Why did God want a Tabernacle built by Moses? [closed]
Is there a biblical basis why God wanted a Tabernacle to live among Israel (Exodus 25:8)?
And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst. Exodus 25:8 ESV
What is the ...
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Did God give Moses visions of History and the Tabernacle on Mount Sinai? [closed]
After Moses spent forty days and nights on the mountain, he gave the people the requirements God had told him to say to the Israelites:
All Scripture is quoted from the King James translation unless ...
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Moses' age when before the burning bush
I am trying to find Moses’ age when he was standing before the Burning Bush before delivering the Israelites from slavery. Later in Scripture it says he was 80 years when he first spoke to Pharaoh. ...
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How was Moses able to speak to over 600,000 people at once?
This is a followup question to the question about Jesus speaking to crowds of 5,000 people without audio installation.
The book of Exodus says that Israelites had 600,000 men of fighting age. And ...
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Red Sea or Sea of Reeds?
I've heard a lot of religious chatter concerning what exact "sea" was parted by God to allow Moses and the Israelites to cross out of Egypt. Seems productions by the History Channel and other such ...
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Why did God tell Moses to make a bronze serpent on a stick? [closed]
In Numbers 21:4-9, Moses makes a bronze serpent on a stick to heal the Hebrews' snake bites, as per God's instructions. They don't worship it, but they are to look at it in order to live. Isn't this ...
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Moses - did he kill thousands?
Someone said that Moses was a mass murderer having killed thousands of of his own people out of anger and frustration. Where in the Bible does it state this, if anywhere?
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Is Cecil B. DeMille's narration of Moses in the desert based on the Bible?
In Cecil B. DeMille's classic 1956 movie "The Ten Commandments", there is a scene where Moses is wandering through the desert. Demille provides the following narration:
Into the blistering ...
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How and when do I take God's word literally? [closed]
Every time I talk to a non-believer, they reference several things that they think make their argument stronger.
When I talk about what God says for us not and not to do, they bring up things like "...
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How did Moses write the events which happened ~2000 years before him?
Except the book of Genesis, I believe that it is possible to make some plausible possibilities on how the books of the Bible were written. Moses wrote about himself, Joshua recorded his conquest of ...
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How did the livestock of the Egyptians die twice?
Yesterday we were studying the ten plagues in Exodus. One of the things that confused us was this. Exodus 9:6 reads:
6 And the next day the Lord did it: All the livestock of the Egyptians died, ...
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What does Acts 13:39 mean? [duplicate]
Acts 13:39 (NIV) —
Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.
If the law of Moses is not anymore valid, ...
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Why did God relent on killing Moses when Zipporah circumcised their son?
In Exodus 4 we are told that God sought to kill Moses for not circumcising his son in accordance with the law given to Abraham in:
Genesis 17:11 KJV
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your ...
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Why are sandals considered to be unholy?
As I was reading Exodus 3 chapter 5, this passage got my attention.
Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”
Why ...
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Can God Change his mind? [closed]
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? [closed]
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 apostles ...
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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 father-...
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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 in these chapters are continuous words spoken by God. We know that Moses was given two stone tablets, and that the commands were written on them by ...
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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 enmity ...
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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.
Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you
shall strike the ...
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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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Did God REALLY want to destroy the people of Israel? [closed]
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? [duplicate]
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 you!”
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