Moses The hero of Exodus

Basic Infromation Hebrew name: Moshe Rabbenu (Moshe our teacher) Origin: five books of Bible Roll: prophet, leader of Hebrew, author of The Ten Commandments

Exodus The tale of the basket The tale of the Pharaoh's daughter The tale of burning bush Pillars of cloud and fire The ten plagues The parting of the Red Sea 600 Chariots

Pillars of cloud and fire And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night. Exodus 13:21 

The Ten Plagues The first plague - river water turned to blood The second plague - frogs The third plague - gnats The fourth plague - flies The fifth plague - death of livestock The sixth plague - boils The seventh plague - hail The eighth plague - locusts The ninth plague - darkness The tenth plague - death of the firstborn The pfisteria theory The pfisteria theory provides one explanation of the first six plagues. In 1999 an environmental catastrophe happened in the town of New Burn, North Carolina. The residents woke up to find the waters of their river - the Neuse - had turned red. More than a billion fish died. People working near the river found that they were covered in sores. The cause of this was found to be pollution. The pollution had come from a pig farm further up the river. Millions of gallons of pig-waste had found its way into the river, causing a genetic mutation in a marine micro-organism called pfisteria; turning it from harmless into lethal. The river had been poisoned. John Marr, an epidemiologist specialising in environmental disasters, believes pollution in ancient Egypt could have caused the first six plagues. Pfisteria, or something like it, caused the fish to die, thus turning the river red; the pollution would have driven the frogs onto the land, on land the frogs would die, causing an explosion of flies and lice. The flies could then have transmitted viral diseases to livestock, killing them The volcano theory Could a volcano have triggered the ten plagues? On 18th May 1980, in north-western USA, Mount St Helens volcano erupted, killing everything within 20 miles. Ash columns were ejected into the atmosphere, circling the globe within two weeks and causing complete darkness over a radius of 100 miles. Could a natural phenomenon on this scale have triggered the plagues? John Marr, epidemiologist, thinks that fall-out of volcanic ash could have produced a toxic bloom of algae in the River Nile; thus setting off a chain of events similar to those produced by pfisteria.

600 Chariots When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the mind of Pharaoh and his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?" So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him, and took six hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them. Exodus 14:5-7

The Parting of Red Sea Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. Exodus 14:21  the word 'red' is mistranslated. In the Hebrew bible Moses and his people cross the 'yam suph' - the Sea of Reeds.

Exodus The tale of the basket The tale of the Pharaoh's daughter The tale of burning bush The ten plagues The parting of the Red Sea 600 Chariots

The ten Commandment

Thou shalt have no other gods before me Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain Remember the sabbath day and keep it holy Honour thy father and thy mother Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not commit adultery Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour Thou shalt not covet any thing that is thy neighbour‘s

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