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THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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One day he saw an Egyptian strike an ISRAELITE slave.
He killed him and fled to the desert.
There, the God of ISRAEL, ordered him to FREE HIS PEOPLE, and to guide them to THE PROMISED LAND.
After HESITATING for a while, he ACCEPTED THE MISSION, and returned to the Court to IMPOSE THE WILL of the God of ISRAEL on the Pharaoh.
[Thomas Romer, Lausanne University] Moses defied the Pharaoh. What did that defiance SYMBOLIZE? It showed that Yahweh, the God that sent Moses to the Pharaoh, was MORE POWERFUL than all that the King of Egypt symbolized. When Moses came to see the Pharaoh, the Pharaoh asked who this god Yahweh was? HE HAD NEVER HEARD OF HIM, and considered him as THE MINOR GOD of an Oriental people that was of NO CONSEQUENCE. But, little by little, he realized that this Yahweh was IN FACT more powerful than the whole of the Egyptian pantheon.
[Narrator] But the Pharaoh continued in his refusal.
As a result, Egypt was STRUCK by the TEN PLAGUES.
These plagues FORCED the Pharaoh to CHANGE HIS MIND, and let the ISRAELITES go.
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