In the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, Aaron ( or ; Ahărōn, Hārūn, Greek ( Septuagint ): Ααρών ), who is often called "' Aaron the Priest "' () and once Aaron the Levite () ( Exodus 4: 14 ), was the older brother of Moses, ( Exodus 6: 16-20, 7: 7 ; Qur ' an 28: 34 ) and a prophet of God.

At the battle with Amalek, he is chosen with Hur to support the hand of Moses that held the " rod of God " ( Exodus 17: 9 ).

According to the Book of Exodus, the Ark was built at the command of God, in accordance with the instructions given to Moses on Mount Sinai.

According to the Book of Exodus, God instructed Moses on Mount Sinai during his 40-day stay upon the mountain within the thick cloud and darkness where God was ( Ex.

* In the first Exodus, water was provided by God, but scarcely.

In the new Exodus, God will " make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water " ( Isa 41: 18 ).

As such it draws to a conclusion the themes introduced in Genesis and played out in Exodus and Leviticus: God has promised the Israelites that they shall become a great ( i. e. numerous ) nation, that they will have a special relationship with Yahweh their god, and that they shall take possession of the land of Canaan.

In this third covenant, unlike the first two, God hands down an elaborate set of laws ( scattered through Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers ), which the Israelites are to observe ; they are also to remain faithful to Yahweh, the god of Israel, meaning, among other things, that they must put their trust in his help.

In the tradition of Holy Writ, the impossibility of coming face to face with God is a recurring motif, thus the commandment against graven images ( Exodus 20. 4-5 ).

Carol Meyers in her commentary on Exodus suggests that it is arguably the most important book in the bible, as it presents the defining features of Israel's identity: memories of a past marked by hardship and escape, a binding covenant with the God who chooses Israel, and the establishment of the life of the community and the guidelines for sustaining it.

But in Exodus, everything is presented as the work of God, who appears frequently in person, and the historical setting is only very hazily sketched.

The theophany in Exodus begins " the third day " from their arrival at Sinai in chapter 19: Yahweh and the people meet at the mountain, God appears in the storm and converses with Moses, giving him the Ten Commandments while the people listen.

The goal of the divine plan as revealed in Exodus is a return to man's state in Eden, so that God can dwell with the Israelites as he had with Adam and Eve through the Ark and Tabernacle, which together form a model of the universe ; in later Abrahamic religions this came to be interpreted as Israel being the guardian of God's plan for mankind, to bring " God's creation blessing to mankind " begun in Adam.

It describes events in the Old Testament of the Bible, specifically Exodus 7: 16: " And the Lord spoke unto Moses, go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me ", in which God commands Moses to demand the release of the Israelites from bondage in Egypt.

The " patriarchal history " recounts the events of the major patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to whom God reveals himself and to whom the promise of descendants and land is made, while the story of Joseph serves to take the Israelites into Egypt in preparation for the next book, Exodus.

The first covenant is between God and all living creatures, and is marked by the sign of the rainbow ; the second is with the descendants of Abraham ( Ishmaelites and others as well as Israelites ), and its sign is circumcision ; and the last, which doesn't appear until the book of Exodus, is with Israel alone, and its sign is Sabbath.

Later, Jacob and his children were enslaved in Egypt, and God commanded Moses to lead the Exodus from Egypt.

* God redeems Israel ( i. e. the Jewish people ) from the captivity that began during the Babylonian Exile, in a new Exodus

“ And that Christ being Lord, and God the Son of God, and appearing formerly in power as Man, and Angel, and in the glory of fire as at the bush, so also was manifested at the judgment executed on Sodom, has been demonstrated fully by what has been said .” Then I repeated once more all that I had previously quoted from Exodus, about the vision in the bush, and the naming of Joshua ( Jesus ), and continued: “ And do not suppose, sirs, that I am speaking superfluously when I repeat these words frequently: but it is because I know that some wish to anticipate these remarks, and to say that the power sent from the Father of all which appeared to Moses, or to Abraham, or to Jacob, is called an Angel because He came to men ( for by Him the commands of the Father have been proclaimed to men ); is called Glory, because He appears in a vision sometimes that cannot be borne ; is called a Man, and a human being, because He appears arrayed in such forms as the Father pleases ; and they call Him the Word, because He carries tidings from the Father to men: but maintain that this power is indivisible and inseparable from the Father, just as they say that the light of the sun on earth is indivisible and inseparable from the sun in the heavens ; as when it sinks, the light sinks along with it ; so the Father, when He chooses, say they, causes His power to spring forth, and when He chooses, He makes it return to Himself.

" And God dealt well with the midwives " ( Exodus, Chap.

Shut in between this army and the sea, the Israelites despaired, but Exodus records that God divided the waters so that they passed safely across on dry ground.

In the Exodus account, the birth of Moses occurred at a time when an unnamed Egyptian Pharaoh had commanded that all male Hebrew children born be killed by drowning in the river Nile.

) () Both meanings become apparent in Exodus 12: 23 when parsed as: the Lord will pass ( hover, guard ) over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer ( destroying angel is commanded to pass by the children of Israel ) to come in unto your houses to smite.

Four days before the Exodus, the Hebrews were commanded to set aside a lamb.

It is first commanded after the Exodus from Egypt, in ( relating to the cessation of manna ) and in ( as the fourth of the Ten Commandments ).

The rods of both Moses and Aaron were endowed with miraculous power during the Plagues of Egypt ( Exodus 7: 17, 8: 5, 8: 16-17, 9: 23, and 10: 13 ); God commanded Moses to raise his rod over the Red Sea when it was to be parted ( Exodus 14: 16 ) and in prayer over Israel in battle ( Exodus 17: 9 ); Moses brings forth water from a stone using his rod ( Exodus 17, Numbers 20: 11 ).

Leftovers or manna stored up for the following day " bred worms and stank ": the exception being the day before Shabbat ( Preparation Day ), when twice the amount of manna was gathered, which did not spoil overnight ; because, Exodus 16: 23-24 " This is what the LORD commanded: ' Tomorrow is to be a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD.

The symbols above the door could mean the mezuzah, which contains a section of the Torah and is inscribed with symbols or could be a reference to the marks of blood that god commanded the Israelites to put upon their doorways at the Exodus ( cf Exodus 12: 7 ).

Apocalypse commanded Exodus to destroy the Black Knight.

Apocalypse again commanded Exodus to kill Sersi and Dane, though this time Exodus refused.

* In the Book of Exodus the kohenim ( priests ) were commanded to wear white linen breeches known as michnasayim.

* Hebrew Priests were commanded in the Law of Moses ( Exodus 28: 42 ) to wear breeches ( basically underwear ) when they ministered in the Tabernacle: " And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness ; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach ".

( It should be noted that in the account given of the same events, in rabbinic sources ( b. Talmud Shabbat 99a ; Exodus Rabbah 41 ) and in the Qur ' an, Aaron is not the idol-maker and upon Moses ' return begged his pardon as he had felt mortally threatened by the Israelites ( Quran 7: 142-152 ).

* After crossing the Jordan River, the Israelites celebrated the Passover ( 5: 10 – 12 ) just as they did immediately before the Exodus ( Ex.

The “ glory of YHWH ” was also revealed in the form of light-filled cloud which accompanied the Israelites during the Exodus to the Promised Land.

:* Vayakhel, on Exodus 35-38: Israelites collect gifts make the Tabernacle and furnishings

The offspring of Jacob's sons became the tribes of Israel following the Exodus, when the Israelites conquered and settled in the Land of Israel.

After the Ten Plagues, Moses led the Exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt and across the Red Sea, after which they based themselves at Mount Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments.

Similar passages include, for example, Exodus 17: 14, " And YHWH said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven ;" Exodus 24: 4, " And Moses wrote all the words of YHWH, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel ;" Exodus 34: 27, " And Yahweh said unto Moses, Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel ;" and " These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the LORD established on Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.

While the general narrative of the Exodus and the conquest of the Promised Land may be remotely rooted in historical events, the figure of Moses as a leader of the Israelites in these events cannot be substantiated.

It commemorates the story of the Exodus, in which the ancient Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt.

According to Exodus ( 12: 29 ), God struck down all Egyptian firstborns while the Israelites were not affected.

The Ten Commandments shown in Exodus 20: 2-17 and Deuteronomy 5: 6-21 stated that the Israelites were not to steal, a blanket early protection of private property.

God also intentionally directed the Israelites away from the Philistines upon their exit from Egypt according to Exodus 13: 17.

According to the Jewish tradition the peninsula was crossed by the Israelites during The Exodus from Egypt as detailed in the Hebrew Bible.

The sukkah is intended as a reminiscence of the type of fragile dwellings in which the Israelites dwelt during their 40 years of travel in the desert after the Exodus from slavery in Egypt.

* The Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, according to Thrasyllus of Mendes, an Egyptian mathematician and astronomer who lived in the reign of Tiberius ( c. 1691 BC ).