The greatest prophet of the Old Testament and liberator of Israel from Egyptian slavery. Rescued as an infant from Pharaoh’s death decree when his mother placed him in a basket on the Nile, Moses was raised in Pharaoh’s palace before fleeing to Midian. God called him through a burning bush to lead Israel out of Egypt through ten devastating plagues and the miraculous parting of the Red Sea. He received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, guided Israel for 40 years in the wilderness, and authored the first five books of the Bible. Moses saw the Promised Land from Mount Nebo but was not permitted to enter it.
Since that time, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face—Deuteronomy 34:10 · Berean Standard Bible
Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months. But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. And his sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him. Soon the daughter of…
A mother hides her baby in a basket on the Nile. A princess pulls him out. The deliverer grows up in the house of the oppressor.
Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed. So Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?” When the LORD saw that he had…
In the silence of a desert, a bush burns without burning up — and God speaks His own name.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. You are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal-zephon. For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.’ And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so that he will pursue them. But I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I…
An entire nation trapped between an army and the ocean — and then the impossible happens.
Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead as far as Dan, all of Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea, the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho (the City of Palms) all the way to Zoar. And the LORD said to him, “This is the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I…
Moses sees the promised land from a mountaintop but never enters it. The greatest prophet Israel ever knew, buried by God Himself.
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