Tim Foley - What Are the Ten Commandments?
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For my mother, Malcah ZeldisYZM
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ISBN 9780515157239 (paperback)
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According to the Old Testament of the Bible, for three long months, Moses led his people, the ancient Israelites, as they escaped from Egypt into the desert. The land was parched and dry. The sun was scorching. The journey was long. But everyone believed God would protect them and lead them to the Promised Land. Finally, they came to Mount Sinai and pitched their tents600,000 men, as well as women and children.
Leaving his followers, Moses went up Mount Sinai, where he heard Gods words. God said that if the children of Israel obeyed His laws, He would make them His Chosen Peoplespecial in His eyes. God also said He had a gift for them. He would give it to Moses in three days.
Moses shared this news with the Israelites. He told them to begin praying because God had promised to appear again to Moses very soon. The Israelites spent the next three days in prayer. On the third day, a thick cloud appeared above the mountain. That was not all. There were claps of thunder and bolts of lightning. There was also the loud, powerful sound of a trumpet.
God called Moses to the mountaintop again, to receive the gift: It was a pair of large stone tablets. On them were carved ten rules for leading a good life and loving God. They were the Ten Commandments, which the Bible says are the only laws written by the finger of God. And they are as important today as they were so long ago, in Mosess time.
Jacob
The Israelites, or Hebrews, were an ancient Jewish people who came from different tribes. According to the Bible, the tribes were descended from the sons and grandsons of their Jewish ancestor, Jacob. They are called Israelites because Israel was the name God gave to Jacob. The names of the tribes are Reuben, Simeon, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Levi, another son of Jacob, founded a priestly tribe that was considered distinct from the other twelve tribes.
The Israelites Become Slaves
For many years, the Israelites had lived and thrived in the ancient kingdom of Egypt. They were different from their neighbors. Unlike the Egyptians, the Israelites believed in one almighty God. And no other. The Egyptians believed in many gods.
Joseph
The Israelites in Egypt had descended from Joseph, a son of Jacob, and his family. Josephs brothers had sold him into slavery there. Though Joseph began as a slave, he became a powerful man in Egypt. He was an adviser to the pharaoh (king). He had many children and grandchildren. Josephs fathers family joined him in Egypt, and they too had many children. Over the years, there came to be many Israelites in Egypthundreds of thousands.
Much later on, the pharaoh ruling over Egypt began to fear the Israelites. What if they rebelled against him? Or even worsewhat if they left Egypt? So Pharaoh decided to enslave the Israelites.
Did the Jewish slaves in Egypt build the pyramids at Giza? There are many stories that say so. But the Great Pyramids had already been built about a thousand years earlier. The Great Pyramids were completed around 2500 BC. So the story is not true. Jewish slaves could not have built them. Egyptian laborers did.
From then on, the Israelites were mistreated and abused. They had to work long and hard for the pharaoh, building cities for him. But did hard labor kill off the Israelites, as the pharaoh had hoped?
No. It did not.
This made the pharaoh even angrier. So he gave a command. Every newborn Israelite boy was to be thrown into the Nile River and drowned. He would let the baby girls live because when they grew up, there would be no men for them to marry. There would be no Israelite babies born. The Israelites whom Pharaoh hated and feared would die out.
Around this time, an Israelite couple named Amram (say: AM-ram) and Jochebed (say: YAH-keh-bed) had a baby boy. They already had a daughter, Miriam, and a son named Aaron. Somehow they had kept Aaron safe from the Egyptians. But how could they keep their newborn safe? A crying baby was sure to be discovered.
Jochebed loved her infant son and could not bear the thought of him being drowned. So she put him in a small basket and set it floating on the Nile River. Then she hid behind the bulrushes that grew at the waters edge and waited. She prayed that someone would find her baby and take good care of him. Her daughter, Miriam, was beside her.
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