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Hebrew Sacred History (Extracts 5-6)
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1. Two scenes from the life of Moses are often depicted in art: his mother setting him afloat in a basket in the Nile, and his being found when the basket becomes entangled in riverside bull rushes. His mother set him afloat because
she was a priestess, forbidden to have sex, and she knew his very existence would disgrace her 
rumors of a newborn Hebrew rebel-leader-to-be were circulating, and baby boys were being killed as a security measure 
the Lord had appeared to her and instructed her to do this 
there was a great famine in Egypt and she lacked the means to feed a child 
she intended him to capsize as a sacrifice of her firstborn to the Egyptian river god 
No Answer
2. Moses fled from Egypt because
he was being hunted as a murderer 
the Hebrews were subject to corvée labor to build the Great Pyramid, which was being constructed at this time 
the Hebrews were subject to corvée labor repairing the Great Pyramid, which was nearly two thousand years old 
he was repelled by the dissolute life of the Egyptian court and longed for the life of a simple desert herdsman 
most Egyptians drank way too much beer and ate too much goose and goat meat, and Moses was tee-total and a vegetarian, unable to “fit in” with other courtiers, who always teased and mocked him 
he was embarrassed because of two odd bumps on his head that people said looked a bit like horns 
No Answer
3. Seeking refuge among the desert tribes, Moses was received by Reuel/Jethro, who (Select two.)
hired him as a cook 
laughed and laughed at Moses’ shaven head, a relic of his life at the Egyptian court 
was a priest 
gave Moses as a wife Zipporah, one of his seven daughters 
had grown too old to continue to work 
was famed among the desert tribes for his delightful multiple-choice quizzes 
4. One day, after he had lived with Jethro for some years, Moses was tending Jethro’s flocks in the hills near Horeb when he saw bush in flames
and rushed to extinguish the fire before it might spread 
which produced a column of red smoke that could be seen at a great distance 
which seemed to move over the mountain so that it was always directly in front of him, barring his path 
which surprised him because the bush seemed undamaged 
No Answer
5. Moses heard the voice of the Lord, seeming to come from the middle of the bush. It ordered him to
take off his shoes 
cover his head 
stare intently into the middle of the flames 
avert his eyes from the flames 
kneel in the soft dust 
kneel on the hard rock 
No Answer
6. The Lord
explained that Jethro was a worshipper of a heathen and false god, and that Moses should take his wife and son and flee Jethro’s household 
a great blight was about to strike Jethro’s sheep, and they should be carefully separated from the goats and not pastured together 
he had heard the lamentations of the Hebrews suffering as forced laborers in Egypt and had decided to free them 
reprimanded Moses because, under Jethro’s command, he had not yet circumcised his son Gershom 
No Answer
7. Commanded by God to go to Egypt, confront the king, demand the release of the Hebrews, and lead them out of Egypt, Moses
fainted 
looked up at the bush, which had ceased to burn and looked no different from any other bush 
carefully explained to God that he doubted the Hebrews would follow him 
explained that he had a wife and child to look after and would be unavailable for such a time-consuming task for at least a decade or two 
suggested that the Lord had probably intended to recruit someone more charismatic and had simply appeared in the wrong bush 
No Answer
8. In the course of their discussion, Moses wanted to know what to call the Lord God when he spoke to the Hebrews in Egypt, since surely they would ask this before believing that he was really a messenger of God. The Lord (in this translation) gave him two answers, namely (Select two.)
I am 
Adamah 
Krsna 
Jehovah 
Lord of Lords 
Alpha & Omega 
9. As he closed his instructions, the Lord told Moses that
Pharaoh would be happy to be rid of the pesky Hebrews, who were poor workers anyway 
the Hebrews could and should plunder the Egyptians as they left the country 
his plan was to part the Red Sea so the Hebrews could make it to Sinai without getting their feet wet 
they would need to wander in the desert for forty years before he would take them to the land he had promised to Abraham 
he was preparing some more commandments that they would need to obey after they left Egypt 
the Hebrews must prevent their children from speaking Egyptian and allow them to use only Hebrew 
No Answer

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