Why did God want to kill Moses?

[e_c]

Originally Posted by irishcolleen45 View Post
I have another question with Exodus. Why did God allow the Hebrew people to be enslaved by the Egyptians? I know it says that the Pharaoh did not know Joseph but were the Hebrews not worshiping God as they should? Did they turn away from Him? It didn’t seem to say that at the beginning of Exodus.

Thank you for your help.
This reinforces to me why one cannot read the Bible like a novel. There’s more there than meets the eye.

Yes I will stand by what I said about the patriarchs. Each has his failings and they all are enticed by Egypt.

OK, please help me out here. What are the chapter and verse numbers that prompt your question? I THINK I know, but wish not to waste your time.

Question about…? The sin of Moses that kept him out of the Promised Land? Numbers 20: 8-12

Fun fact - due to the previous “water from the rock” incident (Meribah and Massah), only 3 people (Moses, Joshua, and Caleb) end up surviving the whole journey (and of course Aaron sealed his fate with that Golden Calf mistake), and one of them, Moses, doesn’t even get to go across the Jordan.

Compare this with the first time the Israelites beg for water, immediately after they cross the Red Sea… The bitter water is made sweet, by Moses putting a tree in it. No harm no foul there. Lots of imagery to ponder, starting with the tree being a symbol of the cross…

Scripture’s great.

 

[oldburkes]

Fun fact - due to the previous “water from the rock” incident (Meribah and Massah), only 3 people (Moses, Joshua, and Caleb) end up surviving the whole journey (and of course Aaron sealed his fate with that Golden Calf mistake), and one of them, Moses, doesn’t even get to go across the Jordan.

e_c, I am reading “Josephus, The Complete Works” by William Wiston, which contains the writings of Jewish scholar Josephus. Wiston, in his Dissertation 4 in the Appendix of the book, seems to make a good case that Josephus had in his possession, or at least had unlimited access to the Books of the Law that “laid up in the Temple”. If this is true, I wonder why Josephus chose to make no mention at all of the second striking of the rock, the golden calf, or the breaking of the Tablets, in his “Antiquities of the Jews”? Do you think it was, perhaps, to give a more favorable account of Moses and Aaron? Do you know of any other versions that exclude these things?

 

[kdbueno]

Moses and the book of life is synonymous to understand the divine biblical theology of love.