In the infliction of the remaining plagues, he appears to have acted merely as the attendant of Moses, whose outstretched rod drew the divine wrath upon the Pharaoh and his subjects ( Exodus 9: 23, 10: 13, 22 ).

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.

In Christianity, the New Testament describes how both Jesus and John the Baptist are compared with Elijah, and on some occasions, thought by some to be manifestations of Elijah, and Elijah appears with Moses during the Transfiguration of Jesus.

“ 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.

This was the second occasion Moses struck a rock to bring forth water ; however, it appears that both sites were named Meribah after these two incidents.

Moses also appears in other religious texts such as the Mishnah ( c. 200 AD ), Midrash ( AD 200 – 1200 ), and the Qur ' an ( c. 610 — 653 ).

Moses appears eight times in carvings that ring the Supreme Court Great Hall ceiling.

Moses appears as the central character in the 1998 DreamWorks Pictures animated movie, The Prince of Egypt.

This is regardless of whether that yod appears in the phrase " I am the Lord thy God " (, Exodus 20: 2 ) or whether it appears in " And God spoke unto Moses saying " ( Exodus 6: 2 ).

Grandma Moses also appears on the far left edge in the Norman Rockwell painting Christmas Homecoming, which was printed on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post of December 25, 1948.

* The sentence appears in the 1952 musical film Singin ' in the Rain, in the musical number " Moses Supposes.

" It is true that the moneylender Moses is portrayed in a comparatively positive light, but the way he is described ( as a " friendly Jew " and an " honest Israelite " by Rowley in III. 1 ) suggest that he is in some way to be considered an exception to Jews in general ; also, his own usurious business practices as stated to Sir Peter are clearly less than exemplary ( e. g., his statement " If he appears not very anxious for the supply, you should require only forty or fifty per cent ; but if you find him in great distress, and want the moneys very bad, you may ask double " ).

In the DreamWorks film " The Prince of Egypt " Tzipporah appears as the love interest for Moses.

The name appears to mean a sojourner there ( גר שם ger sham ), which the text argues was a reference to Moses ' flight from Egypt ; biblical scholars regard the name as being essentially the same as Gershon, and it is Gershom rather than Gershon who is sometimes listed by the Book of Chronicles, as a founder of one of the principal Levite factions.

The passage in Exodus concerning Moses and Zipporah reaching an inn, contain four of the most ambiguous and awkward sentences in Biblical text ; the text appears to suggest that something, possibly God or an angel, attacks either Gershom or Moses, until a circumcision is carried out by Zipporah on whichever of the two men it was that was being attacked.

The accounts of Micah's idol also include reference to a Jonathan son of Gershom as being a priest, and although the masoretic text seems to avoid the implication that non-Aaronim could be priests by describing this particular Gershom as a son of Manasseh ( מנשה ), this appears to have been distorted ; the letter nun ( נ ) appears here in superscript, suggesting that the text originally described this Gershom as the one that was a son of Moses ( משה ).

The Blessing of Moses appears to prophesy this, though textual scholars view this as a postdiction.

Avec des remarques qui appuient ou qui éclaircissent ces conjectures (" Conjectures on the original documents that Moses appears to have used in composing the Book of Genesis.

* A cover by TC Moses appears in the Nintendo DS Game: Elite Beat Agents.

The marble sculpture appears to depict Moses with horns on his head, though some modern artists and historians claim that there were never intended to be horns.

The book is structured in two roughly equal parts, the story of the campaigns of the Israelites in central, southern and northern Canaan and the destruction of their enemies, followed by the division of the conquered land among the twelve tribes ; the two parts are framed by set-piece speeches by God and Joshua commanding the conquest and at the end warning of the need for faithful obedience of the Law ( torah ) revealed to Moses.

The book is as intriguing for the themes it leaves out as for what it includes: the ark of the covenant, which is given so much importance in the stories of Moses and Joshua, is almost entirely missing, cooperation between the various tribes is limited, and there is no mention of a central shrine for worship or of a high priest ( the office to which Aaron was appointed at the end of the Exodus story ).

Moses is a central figure in the Deuteronomist account of the origins of the Israelites, cast in a literary style of elegant flashbacks told by Moses.

The tomb, of which the central feature is Michelangelo's statue of Moses, was never finished to Michelangelo's satisfaction.

Orthodox Judaism's central belief is that Torah, including the Oral Law, was given directly from God to Moses and applies in all times and places.

The central tier of the walls has two cycles of paintings, which complement each other, The Life of Moses and The Life of Christ.

A central pillar of the Bible's historical authority was the tradition that it had been composed by the principal actors or eyewitnesses to the events described – the Pentateuch was the work of Moses, Joshua was by Joshua, and so on.

Similarly, although an occupation with national destiny has been central to the Jewish faith ( see Zionism ) many scholars ( including Moses Mendelssohn ) stated that conscience as a personal revelation of scriptural truth was an important adjunct to the Talmudic tradition.

For Paul, in Romans chapter 2, the " natural law " is contrasted with the Mosaic Law posited on Mount Sinai in that the Jewish Nation possessed the latter while the Gentile Nations lacked the Law of Moses but possessed the former in virtue of knowing ( some of its central commandments ) and obeying it ( partially ) " by nature.

In the center of a traffic circle that he planned as a terminus for the Wantagh State Parkway, Moses ordered the construction of an Italianate-style water tower to serve as a central feature of the park.

Friedman states that the smashing of the Ten Commandments by Moses when he beheld the worship of the golden calf, is really an attempt to cast into doubt the validity of Judah's central shrine, the Ark of the Covenant.

The 2 mi ( 3. 2 km ) long Jones Beach Boardwalk runs along the central section of the 10 mi ( 16. 1 km ) Jones Beach State Park, created during the administration of Robert Moses and opened in 1929.

Nevertheless, communal unity and equality are central tenets of the Latter Day Saint doctrine of Zion as described in Moses 7: 18, " And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness ; and there was no poor among them.

Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, ( 1522 – 1570 ) (), was a central figure in the historical development of Kabbalah, leader of a mystical school in 16th-century Safed, Israel.

Musgrave has written more than a dozen operas and other music theatre works, many taking a historical figure as their central character, among them Mary Queen of Scots ( 1977 ), Harriet Tubman ( Harriet, the Woman called Moses, 1984 ), Simón Bolívar ( 1993 ) and Pontalba ( 2003 ).

In the years since its publication, and especially since Moses's death in 1981, it has been central to discussion of Moses and the history of 20th-century New York.

In the book he argues that the experiences of the Hyksos in Egypt became a central foundation of myths in Canaanite culture, leading to the story of Moses.

Torrey opposed the route Moses wanted for the Northern State Parkway along Long Island's central glacial moraine.

Martin Noth holds that two different groups experienced the Exodus and Sinai events, and each group transmitted its own stories independently of the other one, writing that " The biblical story tracing the Hebrews from Egypt to Canaan resulted from an editor's weaving separate themes and traditions around a main character Moses, actually an obscure person from Moab.

In general, Moses is described in ways which parallel the prophet Muhammad, and " his character exhibits some of the main themes of Islamic theology ," including the " moral injunction that we are to submit ourselves to God.

Thomas Mann's novella The Tables of the Law is a retelling of the story of the exodus from Egypt, with Moses as its main character.

In the late 18th century the deist Thomas Paine commented at length on Moses ' Laws in The Age of Reason, and gave his view that " the character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined ", giving the story at as an example.

* In the 2005 film Kingdom of Heaven, Orlando Bloom's character Balian utters the line " A spark and a creosote bush, there is your Moses, there is your religion ", suggesting that the burning bush in the Bible was a simple creosote bush being sparked by a thrown rock.

The character Granny on the popular 1960s rural comedy television series The Beverly Hillbillies was named Daisy Moses as an homage to Grandma Moses, who died shortly before the series began. She is buried in Hoosick Falls, New York.

The renovations were done in the hope of preserving the chapel's 17th century character as much as possible, and indeed, the chapel has remained much unchanged since the wooden figurines ( of Saint Peter, Saint Paul, Moses and Aaron ) were placed on the front pews and the carved ceiling was installed in the 1680s.

" Ira Steven Behr compares Sisko to the Biblical figure, Moses, who fails to reach the Promised Land, and to the character of Ethan Edwards from the 1956 Western film, The Searchers, who neglects to return to his family once his task is complete.

Thus, as ibn Daud remarks, perhaps with a reference to the miracles attributed to Jesus, the authenticity of the Torah would be in a sorry plight if, instead of being based on miracles of real historic certainty, such as those of Moses, it were supported merely by miracles of such private character as the resurrections effected by Elijah and Elisha ( ib.

Scene II: Sir Oliver, reflecting on Charles's character with Moses, is met by Rowley, who has brought him the hundred pounds sent to " Stanley.

First may be mentioned poems that deal principally with events, being epic-lyric in character: the triumphal song of Israel delivered from Egypt, or the song of the sea ; the mocking song on the burning of Heshbon ; the so-called song of Moses ; the song of Deborah ; the derisive song of victory of the Israelite women ; Hannah's song of praise ; David's song of praise on being saved from his enemies ; Hezekiah's song of praise on his recovery ; Jonah's song of praise ; and many of the Psalms, e. g., those on the creation of the world, and on the election of Israel.

Dickens took his famous pseudonym from a nickname he had given his younger brother Augustus, whom he called " Moses " ( after a character in Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield ), which " being facetiously pronounced through the nose " became " Boses ", which in turn was shortened to " Boz ".

" Let us here observe, that after any portion of the human family are made acquainted with the important fact that there is a God, who has created and does uphold all things, the extent of their knowledge respecting his character and glory will depend upon their diligence and faithfulness in seeking after him, until, like Enoch, the brother of Jared, and Moses, they shall obtain faith in God, and power with him to behold him face to face.

Melee the 2008 Wii fighting game Super Smash Bros. Brawl in the " Shadow Moses Island " stage, conversing with Solid Snake about Falco if that character is selected.

In Moses Wine, Simon created a character that was proudly Jewish, divorced, and given to smoking marijuana.

DeMille reportedly asked Boyd to take the role of Moses in his remake, The Ten Commandments, but Boyd felt his identification with the Cassidy character would make it impossible for audiences to accept him as Moses.

* In the 1971 film Shaft Moses Gunn portrayed " Bumpy Jonas " a character based upon Johnson.

Boon is also a major character in Go Down, Moses, where he appears as a McCaslin / Priest family retainer of limited education and interests.

The character of Nathan is to a large part modeled after Lessing's lifelong friend, the eminent philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.