Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines 'water' or 'seed' and 'pond, expanse of water,' thus yielding the sense of 'child of the Nile' ( mw- š). The Finding of Moses, painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1904Īn Egyptian root msy ('child of') has been considered as a possible etymology, arguably an abbreviation of a theophoric name, as for example in Egyptian names like Thutmoses ('child of Thoth') and Ramesses ('child of Ra'), with the god's name omitted. Rabbinical Judaism calculated a lifespan of Moses corresponding to 1391–1271 BCE Jerome suggested 1592 BCE, and James Ussher suggested 1571 BCE as his birth year. Generally Moses is seen as a legendary figure, whilst retaining the possibility that Moses or a Moses-like figure existed in the 13th century BCE. After 40 years of wandering in the desert, Moses died within sight of the Promised Land on Mount Nebo.

After the Ten Plagues, Moses led the Exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt and across the Red Sea, after which they based themselves at biblical Mount Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments. Moses said that he could not speak eloquently, so God allowed Aaron, his elder brother, to become his spokesperson. God sent Moses back to Egypt to demand the release of the Israelites from slavery.

After killing an Egyptian slave-master who was beating a Hebrew, Moses fled across the Red Sea to Midian, where he encountered the Angel of the Lord, speaking to him from within a burning bush on Mount Horeb, which he regarded as the Mountain of God. Through the Pharaoh's daughter (identified as Queen Bithia in the Midrash), the child was adopted as a foundling from the Nile river and grew up with the Egyptian royal family. Moses's Hebrew mother, Jochebed, secretly hid him when the Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew boys to be killed in order to reduce the population of the Israelites.

In the biblical and quranic narrative, he was the leader of the Israelites and lawgiver to whom the authorship, or 'acquisition from heaven', of the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) is attributed.Īccording to the Book of Exodus, Moses was born in a time when his people, the Israelites, an enslaved minority, were increasing in population and, as a result, the Egyptian Pharaoh worried that they might ally themselves with Egypt's enemies. 'Moshe our Teacher'), is considered the most important prophet in Judaism, and an important prophet in Christianity, Islam, the Baháʼí Faith, and a number of other Abrahamic religions. Moses ( / ˈ m oʊ z ɪ z, - z ɪ s/), also known as Moshe Rabbenu ( Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּנוּ‎ lit.

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