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  2. Joshua - Wikipedia

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    Joshua (/ ˈ dʒ ɒ ʃ u ə /), also known as Yehoshua (Hebrew: יְהוֹשֻׁעַ ‎ Yəhōšuaʿ, ‍ Tiberian: Yŏhōšuaʿ, lit. 'Yahweh is salvation'), Jehoshua, [b] [2] [3] or Josue, [4] functioned as Moses' assistant in the books of Exodus and Numbers, and later succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelite tribes in the Book of Joshua of the Hebrew Bible. [5]

  3. Yeshua - Wikipedia

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    In Nehemiah 8:17 this name refers to Joshua son of Nun, the successor of Moses, as leader of the Israelites. In earlier English (where adaptations of names of Biblical figures were generally based on the Latin Vulgate forms), Yeshua was generally transcribed identically to "Jesus" in English.

  4. Sarah Brandon Moses - Wikipedia

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    In the paintings, the painter used a technique to exaggerate the lightness of their skin. At age 18, Sarah married a wealthy American Ashkenazi Jew named Joshua Moses, the son of German-born American banker Isaac Moses; their wedding occurred at Bevis Marks Synagogue, the Portuguese synagogue in London. Her wedding dowry was £10,000, or ...

  5. Gershom - Wikipedia

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    Moses’ father-in-law Jethro came to Moses in the wilderness, bringing with him Moses’ wife Zipporah and their two sons, Gershom and Eliezer. [5] The priestly service of Gershom's descendant Jonathan on behalf of the Danites was illegal, because, although he was a Levite, he was not of Aaron's family.

  6. Eliezer - Wikipedia

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    Eliezer was Moses's and Zipporah's second son. His name means "Help of my God". The verse in the Exodus 18:4 states, "[T]he other was named Eliezer, meaning, 'The God of my father’s [house] was my help, delivering me from the sword of Pharaoh.'" Gershom and Eliezer were born after Moses had taken refuge in Midian and married Jethro's daughter ...

  7. Eleazar - Wikipedia

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    Eleazar held the office of high priest for more than twenty years. He took part with Moses in numbering the people, and assisted at the inauguration of Joshua. He assisted in the distribution of the land after the conquest. [8] When he died, he "was buried at Gibeah, which had been allotted to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim". [9]

  8. Soncino family - Wikipedia

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    It traces its descent through a Moses of Fürth, who is mentioned in 1455, back to a certain Moses of Speyer, of the middle of the fourteenth century. The first of the family engaged in printing was Israel Nathan b. Samuel, the father of Joshua Moses and the grandfather of Gershon.

  9. Jethro (biblical figure) - Wikipedia

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    However, Moses remained conscious that he was a stranger in exile, naming his first son (Jethro's grandson) "Gershom", meaning "stranger there". Moses is said to have worked as a shepherd for Jethro for 40 years before returning to Egypt to lead the Hebrews to Canaan , the " promised land ".