RELI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Burning Bush, Passover, Israelites
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Moses is part of the levite tribe. His mother did not abandon him but put him in the nile because the pharaoh ordered that all of the jewish male babies be killed. Pharaoh rescued him and hired his actual mother to be his wet nurse. Became very successful under the pharaoh, but one day saw guards beating up a man because he was jewish and he went mad and killed the guards. Moses isn"t allowed to enter the promised land because he was not chosen to. Goes to mount nebo to watch the jews enter the promised land and that is where he dies. Is the political and religious leader of the egyptian people, holding the titles: Lord of the two lands and high priest of every temple . The 10 plagues: water to blood, frogs, gnats, flies, pestilence, boils, locusts, hail, darkness, first born.
