Moses

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Summary: Moses the Calling of a Leader: Book Of Exodus and Deuteronomy.

The Birth of Moses: The king of Egypt ordered the Hebrew midwives to kill the son but let the daughter. The Hebrew wives were too afraid of god to listen to the king. God rewarded them because they were afraid of him. Then the Pharaoh commanded that every son of the Hebrews should be cast into the Nile but have the daughters live. A Hebrew woman produced a son but hid him for 3 months. Then she put him in a basket and put the basket among the reeds. The princess saw the basket and kept the son and named him Moses.

A Stranger in a Stranger Land: When Moses grew up he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. When no one was looking he killed the Egyptian. Later, two Hebrew were fighting and Moses was very confused. The Pharaoh have heard of what Moses had done and planned to kill him. Moses fled and did a good deed for a man. The man gave him his daughter Zipporah. They had a child named Gershom. The king died and The Hebrews called out to god and he answered.

The Burning Bush: Moses was keeping a flock in the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb. Then an angel of the lord appeared to a flame of a fire out of a bush. Out of the bush god said to Moses to go and free the people or Israel from under the Egyptians. Moses took his wife and his sons and set him on an ass and went back to the land of Egypt.

Go Down, Moses: A Poem where God is talking to Moses and basically telling him to help him free the people of Israel

Challenging Pharaoh: Aaron and Moses went to the pharaoh and told him to let the people of Israel go. The pharaoh said no and took away the straw to make bricks from the Israelites. The people found out they were not going to get bricks anymore and got mad and told Moses and Aaron. Moses asked god why he does bad stuff to his people?

- Overall, Moses kept telling the Pharaoh to release the people of Israel. The pharaoh didn't listen and got punished every time he refused. Then god made the Passover happen. The Passover is when the people of Israel had to kill a sheep and smear the blood on the door in the form of a cross. Every house that didn't have the blood would be smitten. Finally, the pharaoh let the people go and they left with Moses. While on their journey the Pharaoh decided that he made a bad decision to let the people go and decided to follow Moses and the people and get them back. Moses and the people were at the red sea when they noticed that the pharaoh was following them. God gave Moses the power to part the sea and him and the people walked through the parting. When Pharaohs men got to the parting Moses closed it and they drowned.

Runagate Runagate: About a slave trying to running away. Describing the hardships.

Manna from Heaven: On the fifteenth day of the people of Israel's journey to the promise land they started to question why they left a place where they were fed because now they were in the wilderness with no food. God fed the people at night with quail and in the morning with bread.

The Ten Commandments: The people of Israel came into the wilderness of Sinai. Moses went up to god on a mountain. The third day there, there was thunder and lightning and a very loud trumpet blast. Moses brought the people to see god. When there god told the people the ten commandments. The people began to be afraid of god but Moses told them not to be afraid. God gave Moses the two tables of stone.

The Golden Calf: While Moses was up in the mountain the people and Aaron gathered together and made a huge golden calf. The people made the golden calf their new god and offered offerings up to it. God said to stop this. So Moses went down. When he saw what the people were doing he broke the tablets and burnt the calf to the ground and scattered it upon the water and made the people of Israel drink it.

The Death of Moses: God told Moses that he must die. God then told Moses what will happen to the people when they praise other gods. Then Moses died. The people mourned for 30 days.

The Fall of Jericho: God told Jordan to Have the people march around the city of Jericho 7 times and the blow the trumpets and shout. When they shout the walls will fall and everyone will be able to enter the city.

== ====** Discussion Questions: Why do you think Moses was so significant? What importance did Moses bring to the Catholic community? Do you think that the Lord and God are different people? In Runagate Runagate, what do you think is happening to the narrator? How does this poem relate to the story of Moses? Why do the people of Israel mourn for Moses death for 30 days? Why do you think that god had the people march around the city 7 times? **====

Supplementary Material: In the poem Go Down, Moses how did the author portray god? How do you think Moses feels? Do you think the poem explains the story better than the actual text? Which event does each picture describe ?

Which picture describes each event better? Do the pictures show what you imagined of the story ? Which picture better describes what you imagined?

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Study Guide/Quiz Questions:
What are taskmasters? What was the name of one of the Hebrew midwives? Who was the priest of Midian? What was the rod turned into? What was the first thing that happened to the Pharaoh because he didn't listen to Moses? What did they make the golden calf out of?