Life of Moses

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This paper presents a description of the life of Moses, using texts directly from the Old Testament of the Bible, as well as stories and fables from Judaism and Christianity. The paper recounts the birth of Moses, his subsequent life in Pharaoh's palace, and his freeing of the Hebrew slaves.

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"As Moses spoke his last words to the new nation of Israel, the disciplined ranks of battle-hardened soldiers gathered before him and waited for the command that would send them across the River Jordan at last. "You have dwelt long enough," said Moses, "in this mountain" turn you, and take your journey. Behold, I have set the land before thee; go in and possess the land which the Lord swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them" (Deuteronomy, 1:6-7, 8). But Moses was not to follow his people across the River Jordan, for he spent his last moments of life with "Yahweh" alone, the "invisible deity who had been his master and his friend, his torturer and his comforter, for the last forty years"."

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