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Moses Killing an Egyptian, early 15th century depiction. A theory developed by Cornelis Tiele in 1872, which has proved influential, argued that Yahweh was a Midianite god, introduced to the Israelites by Moses, whose father-in-law Jethro was a Midianite priest. [82]
Spanish 15th century, Massacre of the Firstborn and Egyptian Darkness, c. 1490, hand-colored woodcut. Then the L ORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness will spread over Egypt—darkness that can be felt." So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days.
The story of Zipporah at the Inn occurs through Exodus 4:24–26, when Moses, his wife Zipporah and their son Gershom reach an inn on their way to Egypt. Moses and his family have been tasked to travel from Midian to announce the plagues to the Pharaoh, but are interrupted by the Lord: Leningrad Codex text: 24.
Thus all except the first two lines of fol. 67va and the whole of fol. 67vb transcribed below relate to the story of Moses killing the Egyptian overseer as related in the Christherre-Chronik. Abbreviations are expanded in square brackets.
On the right is Moses killing the Egyptian who had harassed a Hebrew, and fleeing to the desert (a parallel with the episode of Jesus defeating the Devil). In the next episode Moses fights the shepherds who were preventing Jethro's daughters (including his future wife, Zipporah) to water their cattle at the pit, and then takes the water for ...
Israel in Egypt (Edward Poynter, 1867). The story of the Exodus is told in the first half of Exodus, with the remainder recounting the 1st year in the wilderness, and followed by a narrative of 39 more years in the books of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, the last four of the first five books of the Bible (also called the Torah or Pentateuch). [10]
Moses' killing of the Egyptian [49] was not considered murder, for the Egyptian merited death because he had forced an Israelite woman to commit adultery with him. [50] Moses was at that time eighteen years of age. [51] [52] According to another version, Moses was then twenty, or possibly forty, years of age.
According to the Book of Exodus, the Midianites had sheltered Moses during his 40-year voluntary exile after killing an Egyptian (Exodus 2:11–21), the Midianite priest Jethro/Reuel/Hobab [note 8] acted positively towards Yahweh in Exodus chapter 12, and his daughter Zipporah became Moses' wife (Exodus 2:21).