![]() Joshua, his second in command, leads the Israelites into the Promised Land. He leads the people to Mount Sinai where God gives them his laws and commandments.Īfter the children of Israel show a lack of faith to enter their inheritance, God judges them unfit to receive this blessing and has them wander the wilderness for forty years. He then spends the last forty years of his life serving God and governing the people. The Exodus occurs when the Israelites leave Egypt. Their confrontations with Pharaoh Thutmose III (ruled Egypt from 1479 to 1425 B.C.) lead to ten plagues brought on Egypt and the killing of their firstborn. Moses journeys back to Egypt with his brother Aaron, who acts as his spokesman. After spending forty years as a herdsman, God commissions him, through a burning bush, to free the children of Israel from their Egyptian bondage. His journey takes him to Midian where he ends up working for a man named Jethro. ![]() Around the age of forty Moses flees Egypt to escape punishment for killing an Egyptian taskmaster who wrongly beat and killed a Hebrew slave. ![]()
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