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Moses Flees to Midian. 11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12 Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 13 The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews ...
May 31, 2023 · In Midian, Moses married Zipporah, the daughter of a priest of Midian (Exodus 2:15–21; 18:1). Moses stayed in Midian, tending sheep until God appeared to him in a burning bush and instructed him to lead Israel out of their bondage in Egypt (Exodus 3:1–10). After Moses became the leader of the Israelites, his Midianite father-in-law, Jethro ...
Mar 3, 2015 · By the time Moses fled from Egypt in c.1508BC, the people of Midian occupied both the coastal strip of the Sinai Peninsula and parts of the Arabian Peninsula on the opposite side of the Gulf of Aqaba. Moses married Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro (or Reuel), a priest of Midian, and lived here for fifty years before God appeared to him in the ...
- The Call Narrative Versus The Backstory
- Moses Was A Midianite
- Characters Without Backstories
- J’s Pious Revision
While this backstory explains how the Moses, an Israelite from the family of Levi, ends up in Midian married to a foreign woman when God first speaks with him, it is actually discordant with the call narrative in the next chapter on several points.
It seems clear, therefore, that Moses’ backstory (Exod 1:22–2:22) was added by a later editor (J). In the core (E) story, Moses is first introduced as a shepherd, married to the daughter of Jethro, priest of Midian, where he lives. He happens to be grazing his flocks near the Mountain of God,at the very time the Israelites are calling out in their ...
This reconstruction assumes that Moses is introduced in this document here, and lacks a birth narrative. This is not problematic: Like E’s Moses, many biblical characters do not have birth stories. Abrahamis chosen by YHWH to go to Canaan and inherit the land, but the text never says why (Gen 12:1–3). In this latter case, the lack of backstory was...
For J, it was unacceptable that the person chosen by God to free the Israelites and to communicate God’s laws to the people and lead them to the Promised Land would be a Midianite. He had to be an Israelite; better yet, a Levite. Why then, was he in Midian when God appeared to him? J answered this question in his typical style,with an elaborate sto...
Sep 25, 2024 · Exodus 2:15: When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well. Moses fled to Midian after Pharaoh sought to kill him. Moses had killed an Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew (Exodus 2:11-12). When Pharaoh learned of this, he sought to execute Moses.
Jul 3, 2024 · At the end of Moses’ time in Midian, God appeared to Moses—still in Midian—and commissioned him to lead the Israelites out of slavery (Exodus 3—4). As the children of Israel traveled through the wilderness, they employed the services of a guide familiar with the desert—Moses’ Midianite brother-in-law, Hobab (Numbers 10:29).
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Exodus 2b: Moses in Midian. Realizing that Pharaoh plans to kill him for killing an Egyptian, Moses flees to Midian. His intention is to settle there, and upon arriving in Midian, he stops by a well. Soon, seven daughters of the priest of Midian come to the well to draw water to fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.
