Resumo de Exodus - The Bible

In the barren, windswept and arid reaches of the Sinai; far in the south is a huge massif that juts out of the flat and even desert to reach out into the clear blue sky. This outcrop of rock is called Jebel Musa and it was here, legend says that God gave Moses the Ten Commandments. God giving the Israelites the Ten Commandments is one of the most important moments in their chequered history as a people; the event was a brief node on a much larger event called the Exodus, the salvation of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt and to their migration into Canaan, the Promised Land. The word exodus has its roots in this journey of an entire race and the second book of the Bible is about this Event that took place, so scholars tells us sometime during the reign of Rameses II Pharaoh of Egypt.
The book of Exodus starts where Genesis left off, it begins by telling us that the Israelites begin to increase in number in Egypt until the Egyptians themselves begin to feel insecure about this huge migrant population, you have to remember that Joseph the hero of Genesis who has arranged for the migration of the entire Hebrew people into Egypt has already passed away and several centuries have elapsed. The new pharaoh is not well deposed towards these alien populations and the prolonged stay of the Israelites in Egypt is turned into an enforced stay and subsequently metamorphoses into unpleasant servitude and harsh slavery.
The Israelites find themselves slaves where once they were guest, here Exodus the book departs into a little side story of the birth of the miracle worker Moses, who will be the subsequent hero of the Exodus. Pharaoh decrees that all Hebrew women must kill male children born to them while letting the females live; this barbaric infanticide is carried out by tossing new born males into the Nile. Now Moses? mother is disinclined to follow this harsh orders and she lets the child into the river on a papyrus raft while the baby?s elder sister is ordered to keep watch. A miracle occurs as the baby in the reed basket is discovered by pharaohs daughter, who now wants to raise the Hebrew child as her own, thus Moses the future leader of the Hebrew ?exodus? or migration from Egypt has a lucky break, he is now raised as a prince in the royal household, he is well trained and his identity is probably secret, the bible doesn?t go into details here.
Outside in the real world, the Israelites are treated harshly, the young Moses now a young man finds out his true past, commits a blunder by killing an Egyptian, and is banished or runs away from Egypt. He goes away to the Land of midian, working as a shepherd there he finds a wife and meets god for the first time, here God gives him his mission in life that is to lead the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt into the promised land of their forefathers. Moses returns to Egypt and with his brother Aaron begins to entreat pharaoh to let his people go, the pharaoh is probably rameses the II. The Deadly plagues of Egypt ensue because of pharaoh?s intransigence and pride, the Egyptians can take no more of god?s wrath when an angel of death visits Egypt killing all the first born of the land and leaves the Hebrews untouched ?passing over them? thus the festival of ?Passover? has remained in Judaism to this day.
Pharaoh lets the Israelites leave but soon relents, they take the route through the desert, as pharaoh chases the Israelites, they escape when Moses parts the red sea and the people find refuge on the other side. God is there in their midst leading them in a cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. Miracles after miracles follow as the Israelites grumble and moan in the desert, manna falls from heaven, quails cover their camp for meat, water spouts out of rocks as Moses strikes it, they win battles and move on grumbling all the time. God gives them the Ten Commandments, one of this commandments is immediately broken even before they have laid eyes on it.
Exodus the book ends iinconclusively, the Israelites are out of Egypt and in the desert but they have not reached the promised land of Canaan. In the desert they would be forced to reside by God to purge all of the Generation that had known and was born in Egypt, Even Moses does not step into the promised land, god crafts and fashions a new people in the desert, a new generation is born that is not only obedient and unused to the ways of decadent Egypt but is also hungry for conquest. Exodus is a marvelous book, the very act of migration or ?exodus? may have taken several generations, so it is believed. There are three possible routes for the Israelites to have used. Moses is painted as a faithful and strong leader of a capricious and craven population that must be disciplined; the book ends as this disciplining of the Israelite people is occurring in the sands of the Sinai, and just in sight of the Promised Land. The Israelites leave and exit Egypt not only physically but in spirit as well.

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