The Exodus - Go Down, Moses
"Go down, Moses, Way down in Egypt land; Tell old Pharaoh To let my people go.
" The Jews are God's chosen people, according to the Bible.
The Holy Book focuses on their evolution as a community and nation, undergoing tumultuous times of grief and divine rewards.
Their existence is conditioned by their degree of obedience towards God and it always suffers dramatic alterations in contrary cases.
The Exodus is the story that proves once again the special care that the Lord allotted to this people.
With the immigration of Isaac's family in Egypt, where one of his sons, Joseph, had a very high social status, the Jewish people established for a long period in the country of pharaohs.
If initially they had quite a favorable status within this state, they later on were transformed into slaves.
Their number was so great that the Egyptians feared a riot and consequently instated a law according to which the Jew baby boys were killed at birth.
A mother hid her son in a waterproof basket and floated him down the Nile, where he was discovered by a princess.
The boy is called Moses and raised in the royal household.
After growing up, Moses killed a foreman that abused some slaves and thus sent into exile.
When he reached the age of 80, God spoke to him through a burning bush and commissioned him to go back to Egypt and save His people, who were still enslaved.
In order to convince Moses, God assured him He would stand by his side and help him accomplish his mission.
Back in Egypt, Moses asked the current Pharaoh to free the Jewish people, at which the ruler scoffed.
Then, Moses resorted to miracles.
Some Biblical specialists are reluctant to label the deeds of Moses as miracles because they can occur as natural calamities, but others object against this saying that, since they were triggered by a mortal with God's help, they are indeed wondrous events.
Moreover, they endorsed this affirmation with the fact that their timing, appearance and intensity were unexpected.
The nonbelievers detracted the miraculous nature of Moses' doings by arguing they might be embellished observations made by superstitious people, inopportune natural disasters or natural events the laws of which man is not aware.
A next article will present and analyze in detail the ten plagues that were brought about by Moses over Egypt in order to establish whether they are miracles or not.
" The Jews are God's chosen people, according to the Bible.
The Holy Book focuses on their evolution as a community and nation, undergoing tumultuous times of grief and divine rewards.
Their existence is conditioned by their degree of obedience towards God and it always suffers dramatic alterations in contrary cases.
The Exodus is the story that proves once again the special care that the Lord allotted to this people.
With the immigration of Isaac's family in Egypt, where one of his sons, Joseph, had a very high social status, the Jewish people established for a long period in the country of pharaohs.
If initially they had quite a favorable status within this state, they later on were transformed into slaves.
Their number was so great that the Egyptians feared a riot and consequently instated a law according to which the Jew baby boys were killed at birth.
A mother hid her son in a waterproof basket and floated him down the Nile, where he was discovered by a princess.
The boy is called Moses and raised in the royal household.
After growing up, Moses killed a foreman that abused some slaves and thus sent into exile.
When he reached the age of 80, God spoke to him through a burning bush and commissioned him to go back to Egypt and save His people, who were still enslaved.
In order to convince Moses, God assured him He would stand by his side and help him accomplish his mission.
Back in Egypt, Moses asked the current Pharaoh to free the Jewish people, at which the ruler scoffed.
Then, Moses resorted to miracles.
Some Biblical specialists are reluctant to label the deeds of Moses as miracles because they can occur as natural calamities, but others object against this saying that, since they were triggered by a mortal with God's help, they are indeed wondrous events.
Moreover, they endorsed this affirmation with the fact that their timing, appearance and intensity were unexpected.
The nonbelievers detracted the miraculous nature of Moses' doings by arguing they might be embellished observations made by superstitious people, inopportune natural disasters or natural events the laws of which man is not aware.
A next article will present and analyze in detail the ten plagues that were brought about by Moses over Egypt in order to establish whether they are miracles or not.
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