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Shectman also noted that Numbers 8:19 claimed that a "plague will strike the Israelites when they go near the sanctuary", [35] and in Numbers 16:42–50 [36] (or Numbers 17:7–15 in some Bible editions [37]), this actually happened and 14,700 Israelites died of a plague before Aaron stopped it by making an incense offering to Yahweh. [3]
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]
It is 400 years later and Egypt's new Pharaoh, who does not remember Joseph, is fearful that the enslaved and now numerous Israelites could become a fifth column. He hardens their labor and orders the killing of all newborn boys. A Levite woman named Jochebed saves her baby by setting him adrift on the Nile in an ark of bulrushes.
Joseph presenting his father and brethren to the Pharaoh (1896) Genesis 12:10–20 tells of Abram moving to Egypt to escape a period of famine in Canaan. Abram worries that the unnamed pharaoh will kill him and take away his wife Sarai, so Abram tells her to say she is his sister. They are eventually summoned to meet the pharaoh, but God sends ...
The Book of Genesis and the Book of Exodus from the Hebrew Bible depict the Israelites, ancestors of Jews, as having resided in ancient Egypt for a lengthy period of time. The narrative describes the patriarch Jacob and his twelve sons (progenitors of the Twelve Tribes of Israel ) settling in Egypt, with their descendants later forced into slavery.
Although in their version however, slaveowners were cast in the role of Pharaoh, instead of New Israel, and the slaves corresponded to the Israelites. [2] The Exodus narrative not only became an instrument of hope for the enslaved, but also allowed them to make sense of their situation and provided a blueprint for their deliverance.
The Bible's humble journey to the Smithsonian began long before the Diggs' family discovered it in San Bernardino more than three decades ago — in a box of books set to be donated to charity.
The Gemara interpreted the midwives' response to Pharaoh in Exodus 1:19 that the Israelite women "are lively (חָיוֹת , chayot)" to mean that they told him that the Israelites were like animals (חָיוֹת , chayot), for Genesis 49:9 called Judah "a lion's whelp," Genesis 49:17 called Dan "a serpent," Genesis 49:21 called Naphtali ...