Who was Moses ?

The genealogy of Moses and his brother Aaron is recorded in Exodus 6. They were descendants of Levi.

Concerned, I’m sure, for his family’s safety and aware of his inability to care for them well while orchestrating the biggest exodus in human history, Moses sent his wife and sons back to his father-in-law’s house.

Moses was a songwriter.

Moses is one of the Bible’s authors. He wrote the first five books which contain the law of Moses.

Moses didn’t write the Ten Commandments, God did.

Moses saw God.

Moses was extraordinarily humble.

Moses’ godly parents hid him for three months to protect him from the Egyptian edict that said all male Hebrew babies must be killed. When they could no longer hide him, they set him afloat in a basket on the Nile River

Moses lived to be 120 years old.

and is most likely derived from the Egyptian name Mes meaning ‘son,’ but could also possibly mean ‘deliver’ in Hebrew.”

Moses knew in advance the day of his death

He had an older sister, Miriam, and an older brother, Aaron.

God buried Moses on the mountain, and his grave was never found.

Seeing an Egyptian beating a Hebrew slave, Moses intervened and killed the Egyptian. To hide his crime, he buried his victim in the sand.

More than just a play on words, when Moses ran from the murder charge, he fled to the desert of Midian where he met Zipporah, the daughter of a shepherd, and began working with her father, Jethro. He married Zipporah and had two sons. Pictured below: Moses defending the daughters of Jethro

Moses was a prophet in the Abrahamic religions. According to the Hebrew Bible, he was adopted by an Egyptian princess, and later in life became the leader of the Israelites and lawgiver, to whom the authorship of the Torah, or acquisition of the Torah from Heaven is traditionally attributed.

After the first assignment, however, Moses was front and center, and Aaron takes a backseat to his little brother.

Also called Moshe Rabbenu in Hebrew, or Moses our Teacher, he’s the most important prophet in Judaism.

Today most people his age would be firmly ensconced in their rocking chairs, but not Moses. His first 40 years in Pharaoh’s court had prepared him to lead, and his second 40 years had given him knowledge of the desert through which he and the Israelites would travel. Moses was fully prepared for God’s mission at the age of 80; the best was yet to come.

According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was born in a time when his people, the Israelites, an enslaved minority, were increasing in numbers and the Egyptian Pharaoh was worried that they might ally themselves with Egypt’s enemies.

Three times during his tenure as leader, he used snakes to demonstrate God’s power. The first time God turned Moses’ rod into a snake, it scared him so much he turned tail and ran

Moses’ Hebrew mother, Jochebed, secretly hid him when the Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew boys to be killed in order to reduce the population of Israelites.

Briefly. After demonstrating his power by turning Moses’ rod into a snake, God told Moses to place his hand in his cloak. When he withdrew it, his hand was covered in leprosy. Thankfully, God cured the incurable disease almost immediately (Ex. 4:6-7).

Through the Pharaoh’s daughter, identified as Queen Bithia in the Midrash, the child was adopted as a foundling from the Nile river and grew up with the Egyptian royal family.

After killing an Egyptian slavemaster, because the slavemaster was smiting a Hebrew, Moses fled across the Red Sea to Midian, where he encountered The Angel of the Lord, speaking to him from within a burning bush on Mount Horeb, which he regarded as the Mountain of God.