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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]
According to the Bible, Jochebed (/ ˈ j ɒ k ɪ b ɛ d /; Biblical Hebrew: יוֹכֶבֶד, romanized: Yōḵeḇeḏ, lit. 'YHWH is glory', the 'J' is pronounced like a 'Y') was a daughter of Levi [1] and mother of Miriam, Aaron and Moses. She was the wife of Amram, as well as his aunt. [2] No details are given concerning her life.
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 ...
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]
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.
Masters were usually men, but the Bible portrays upper-class women from Sarah to Esther and Judith with their enslaved maids, [8] [9] [10] as do the Elephantine papyri in the 400s BC. [ 7 ] It was necessary for those who owned slaves, especially in large numbers, to be wealthy because the masters had to pay taxes for Jewish and non-Jewish ...
Some Egyptologists suggest that Israel appeared in earlier topographical reliefs, dating to the Nineteenth Dynasty (i.e. reign of Ramesses II) or the Eighteenth Dynasty, [28] but this reading remains controversial. [29] [30] In the Hebrew Bible, Israel first appears in Genesis 32:29, where an angel gives the name to Jacob after the latter ...