Moses

In terms of historical fact, scholars say that there was no Exodus from Egypt as described in the Bible and therefore no Mosaic Age. The Ten Commandments were written centuries after the time attributed to Moses.

We could look to the copious Egyptian records we have for this period for an answer, but there is no hint in official records or in commercial transactions that anything untoward had happened. There is nothing to suggest an entire army had been wiped out, and it seems that the deaths of every pharaoh during this period were by meansother than drowning in the Red Sea pursuit.

It is reported that over 90 per cent of scholars do not believe that there was an Exodus of Israelites from Egypt as described in the Bible. This story was written many centuries after the supposed event and there was no Exodus. The Egyptians did nothing because there was nothing for them to do.

No. Like most Jews today, their ancient ancestors (the Israelites) merely wanted to live in peace. Pharaoh used their high birth-rate as an excuse to take advantage of them as a source of free labor; somewhat like the Nazis. See also:

Why did the Israelites go to Egypt?

Why were the Israelites enslaved?

Because God only told him to speak to the rock, in hitting it he disobeyed God thus causing him not to be able to enter the promised land.

8Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.

9And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.

10And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?

11And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

12And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.

13This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.

"moses hated Hammurabi because the sorcerers beleved he was on the dark side. Hammurabi liked moses ant first but then he hated him because of the consequences JK"

Oh no.

This is anacronistic. Imagine, the Babylonian king Ha.mur.Apil (= Hamurabi) was living in the time of Abraham - and Moses some centuries later is the son of the Levi tribe, Levi is son of Jacob son of Isaac son of Abraham. Historical research assumed the king "Amraphel" of the bible story was Hamurabi - one of those 3 kings who went with the king of Elam, and in that time Elam was the kingdom where Sodom, Gomorrha and the cities near the Salt Sea were colonies from, founded to work with finding and sending asphalt the cities needed to make wells - maybe even for cooking or industrial heating. some years they did this works, then they finished to send their duty production.

In this time Lot, the nephew of Abraham, was an inhabitant in the city of Sodom, too, but not related to those folks. When the 4 kings' military-expedition came to bring their colonists back from there, because they didn't do their job, they caught - by error - the family and sheeps of Lot, and deprtated them too, without making any difference between foreigners, guests, and inhabitants, guilty or not guilty. Abraham heard this and fought the expedition of the 4 great kings in sake to free his own nephew, and he won this battle and the lands, but decided to take no fee from this acting. He finished the war and made his peace, and ok.

The name of Hamurabi is famous today in zhe sciences of law and in the science of ancient languages. as he was in his time, because he gave a very good ancient law, the "Codex Hamurabi" for his kingdom near the river of Euphrat, connecting about 40 communities together, all of them ruling by the same law they wished to have themselves.

The articles begin each with "shoomeshoo aveelum..." (= Take the case, a man ...") (in Babylonian language the name of Abel is "man") - this law was written in cuneiform ceremonial-signs, engraved in a great black stone and this was to visit in the temple of Mar.duk.u, the city power (g*d) of Babel city. Each visitor and each inhabitant could go there and look and read it by himself, if he could read this, he knew the rules and - if guilty to have broken some of the rules he should know the consequences for this acting. The inhabitants of Babel had to learn reading and writing this text of their law. The first step was to read it aloud and to learn the words by heart, able to repeat the total law, then the disciples learnt to write these textes, then the first part of school was ok - the teacher got a little thanksgiving party and got a good meal, a ring and a cloth as gift from the parents of the disciple.

- Those youngsters who had finished their examination, could learn to write more textes, so we have in cuneiform-written relicts some stories who tell about their school life en detail. This form of law was surely not perfect, but was so good, that about 2'000 years later even the Roman's XII-Table Law (late time of the republic of Rome in the century before imperator Augustus who finished this by his new laws) was made similarly. They got it from the Greek's best written Codex, the Greeks got it from the Aramaic or Assyrian nations, etc.

The connection between Hamurabi and Moses is so:

when Moses began to lead the people of Israel from Egypt's lands through the deserts, his folks came with any trouble to him, all the time he alone should decide who was right and who not, or he should ask G'D about this and that - and this went on all the days. It was too much for 1 single old man. - His father-in-law, from the Kenite-priests the wife of Moses, Zipporah, came from, who lived withe the people of Israel in that deset-time to teach them in this situations, saw this and taught Moses to learn a form of Codex to decide a lot of daily troubles by a common Codex of about 70 articles, simply to look at: is this a case, do this (p.e. "If a person steals 1 sheep, he has to give 1 back, adding 4 sheeps more"). So he should devide his people in 1'000, in 100, in 10 fathers, and each group got 1 exemplar of this "Codex for all" (Mishpatim) to decide the simple questions in daily sorrows with the others. And Moses did so. Life became more easy for all of them, to have some rules.

You find this part of law in the Holy Bible, Book of Exodus, chpt.20-chpt.41

- assume, G'D gave His approbation to this. HE gives to the men the intelligence to think about society around himself, and a feeling for righteousness in each heart. Even people who never knew of HIM have the inner enlightenment from HIM to search a way to live with the others in a peaceful way within own self-given rules for "all" of their community, and even with similar structured communities they have contact to.

The Bible Law has some differences in these 70 articles, because in our religion all the people are equally born individuals - in Hamurabi's law there is a difference, if a person offends, hurts, kills or robbs a priest, a free man or an "nobody" - another difference is, that the family in Babylonian view is 1 together: if the architect builds a house and the house broke and killed the wife of that customer, the law ordered to kill the (innocent) wife of that architect, if a child, then one of his (innocent) child's of the architect. In the Bible Law each has to bear his own punishment for only his own guilt, not the analog-family. If somebody in Babel stole something from the temple's or king's compounds the punishment was more heavy - in the Bible Law there ist no other punishment if it was the king's own compound, and if it was stolen from the sanctuary in Jerusalem or the Holy Tent, there was no punishment at all (G'D owns all the world, we cannot make HIM poor). The Bible gives 5 groups of Laws, this ist only 1 group, called "Mischpatim". Other Laws are for only the Sanctuary's priests and the service's calendary, ritus and offerings, others for marriage, family-rules, others specifically national-heraldic, others for moral use. Maybe others didn't write such laws.

When Josua had settled the people of Israel in the Holy Land, the came together near the city of Sikhem between 2 mountains, the Codex was written engraved on a white stone and set up upon one of the mountains and was made holy to our G'D, the people of Israel promised now the contract between G'D and them for themselves standing there and all their descendants since then. Since then, if somebody had a doubt, he could visit the place on the mountain of Garizim and see himself the written articles for each - inhabitants or guests, Israelites or others - and ensure what is the common Codex in this land and nation inside its boundaries.

The Bibölical rulers called "The Judges" (Shophtim) had to perform these articles of law for all. Others are called Lawyers (Dajanim) and have to be at least 3 individuals, unto 70 of a Sanhedrin, they research all the Jewish written laws and have to find a decision (Din) in special cases. This is a difference: maybe, each former Nation had this, too - but maybe they didn't write it.

The Romans made it similar with their XII-Table-Law, they made a great exemplar in bronce and set it up on the Forum Romanum place between the "rostra" where the central Speaker's corner was.

Maybe the king Nimrud-story is sometimes mixed with Hamurabi, but it was a story with Abraham, telling a reason why he left the city of Ur - and Nimrud is told to have been the governor of Ur in the time of young Abram. This "king" is only mentioned in the descendant's list of Noah in the Bible. The Jewish Talmud tradition tells a story of a conflict between the belief of young Abram and the wooden-g*d-making industries in the kingdom of Nimrud, his father's job, too - and that Abram laughed about such a nonsense, to pray or bid something from "a piece of wood".

Some centuries later, this story is told also in the Holy Qur'an for the Muslim, about Abraham and a king Nimrud.

No telling such stories of Moses exists!

The Bible doesn't tell any "story" or criticism about Nimrud, and even doesn't call him a king, only that he was a great hunter and came out of an origin in a city-state near the Sumerian city-kingdoms to become an important hunter "in the eyes of G'D".

mfG WiT

Actually the verse says not to make any image of anything that is in heaven.

It is good to look at the context of the verse to clarify the meaning. In this part of Exodus God is speaking to the nation of Israel. The first commandment He gives is:

Exo 20:3 "You shall have no other gods before Me.

Then He tells them:

Exo 20:4 "You shall not make for yourself a carved (graven) image-any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;

And the following verse says why - not only themanufacture of idols but also worship of themis forbidden.

Exo 20:5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

My bible at the beginning says - 1. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me.

Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven thing.

This is to the Catholics who have changed this commandment.

They have idols in there church of in heaven above, say a statue of Our Lady, She is in Heaven above which the commandment says you should not worship this statue.

I was a Catholic. I have a a Catechism off 1960 in front of me,and it is different all together. A priest would say this is to remind us of Our Lady,but we don`t need a statue (Idol) to remind us of Her. You are also right in what you say.

It isn't known if he did but it is entirely possible since other writers referred to the spherical shape of the earth.

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What is known of Moses knowledge of the creation is that it is completely at odds with the culture of his days view of how the creation came to be and in fact can easily be shown that He lists the order and process of creation in the order that it had to occur, in contradiction to the knowledge of his day, but is in complete agreement with what scientist today know has to be the order in which things happened in order for life to occur, whether this came via creation or evolution is immaterial. The fact that's easily shown that he got this process of order correct completely flys in the face of what Moses should have known, and obviously had a knowledge well in advance of that which was commonly thought of in those ancient times. That he did have a knowledge advanced concerning creation would seem to indicate that he probably had knowledge about whether the world was round or not, but the subject matter never comes up, and neither is mentioned by Moses. However in Job 26:10, Prov 8:27, Isaiah 40:22, Amos 9:6. Shows the Bible teaches not a flat earth but round, though Moses didnt specifically say.

Midian

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She and her family lived in Midian but she is described as an Cushite or Ethiopian woman in Numbers 12:1.