As long as Moses held the rod up, Israel dominated the fighting, but if Moses let down his hands, the tide of the battle turned in favor of the Amalekites.

The other twenty-two figures have their profiles turned to Moses, which is the only forward-facing bas-relief.

He is syncretised with the Catholic figures of St. Patrick who drove snakes out of Ireland, Christ the Redeemer, Our Lady of Mercy, and, sometimes, with Moses whose staff turned into a serpent.

Grandma Moses told reporters that she turned to painting in order to create the postman's Christmas gift, seeing as it " was easier to make painting than to bake a cake over a hot stove.

In politics the Young Hegelians dropped much of Hegel's political theory and for the most part turned to republicanism-the exceptions being Moses Hess, who mixed Hegelianism with communism, and of course Marx and Engels.

Emden was at first on friendly terms with Moses Hagis, the head of the Portuguese-Jewish community at Altona, who was afterward turned against Emden by some calumny.

Although CHUM's radio holdings tend to retain traditional formats, their television stations reflected the avant garde philosophy of former senior executive Moses Znaimer, who turned his hip, local style of television broadcasting into an image as perhaps Canada's most flamboyantly visible media titan in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Russian-controlled Port Arthur lay under the ever-darkening spectre of Japanese invasion, and Reilly and business partner Moisei ( Moses ) Akimovich Ginsburg turned the precarious situation to their benefit.

The church historian Diarmaid MacCulloch comments about this: " Jerome translator of the Old Testament into Latin, mistaking particles of Hebrew, had turned this into a description of Moses wearing a pair of horns-and so the Lawgiver is frequently depicted in the art of the Western Church, even after humanists had gleefully removed the horns from the text of Exodus.

The result was this piece based on the biblical story of how Moses supposedly turned a snake into a staff.

Robert Moses turned the first shovel full of earth for the new construction on August 20, 1966, and cut the ceremonial ribbon to the new " Flushing Meadows Zoo " a bit more than two years later on October 26, 1968.

This turned out to be one of the worst decisions in NBA history, not only because Moses became a superstar ( although two other teams also traded him before he broke through with the Houston Rockets ), but Goodrich suffered an Achilles ' tendon injury that would end his career in 1978, and the Jazz's # 1 pick in 1979 ( the first overall choice ) was used by the Lakers to select Magic Johnson.

He turned against his old comrades and denounced some of them, as well as American scholars such as Owen Lattimore and Moses I. Finley, at the McCarran Committee hearings in 1951.

The Dead Sea Apes is a fable of dwellers by the Dead Sea who, according to the Muslim tradition, were transformed into apes because they turned a deaf ear to God's message to them by the lips of Moses.

In one extreme example in a manuscript of the Bible moralisée, an illustration shows the rod of Aaron, which has turned into a serpent, turning on the Pharoah's magicians ( Exodus, 7: 10-12 ); Moses and Aaron do not wear the hat but the Egyptian magicians do, signifying not that they are Jews, but that they are like Jews, i. e. on the wrong side of the dispute.

Later in Deuteronomy 9, after the incident of The Golden Calf, Moses describes how: ' I feared the furious anger of the, which turned him against you, would drive him to destroy you.

The rich and prominent Moses Lakenbacher, president of the congregation of Nagykanizsa, promised Chorin his influence with his brethren of the district ; but when Lakenbacher became aware of the strong opposition of the conservative party against the reformer he soon turned against him.

Rabbinic tradition asserts that God revealed two Torahs to Moses, one that was written down, and one that was transmitted orally.

This power was then extended to prophets like Moses and Samuel, who caused thunderous storms to rain down on their enemies.

Moses comes down the mountain and writes down God's words and the people agree to keep them.

Moses comes down from the mountain, smashes the stone tablets in anger, and commands the Levites to massacre the unfaithful Israelites.

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According to Rabbinic tradition, all valid interpretations of the written Torah were revealed to Moses at Sinai in oral form, and handed down from teacher to pupil ( The oral revelation is in effect coextensive with the Talmud itself ).

According to Jewish tradition, God gave both the Written Law ( Torah ) and the Oral Law ( additional laws and customs meant to be passed down from teacher to student ) to Moses on Mount Sinai.

And He is called Angel and Apostle ; for He declares whatever we ought to know, and is sent forth to declare whatever is revealed ; as our Lord Himself says, “ He that heareth Me, heareth Him that sent Me .” From the writings of Moses also this will be manifest ; for thus it is written in them, “ And the Angel of God spoke to Moses, in a flame of fire out of the bush, and said, I am that I am, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of thy fathers ; go down into Egypt, and bring forth My people .” And if you wish to learn what follows, you can do so from the same writings ; for it is impossible to relate the whole here.

He missed the 1976 Olympics and a show down with American rival Edwin Moses due to a boycott by African nations including Uganda.

After Moses had persuaded the Lord not to destroy the people of Israel, he went down from the mountain and was met by Joshua.

According to Jewish tradition, the Jewish calendar is calculated based on mathematical rules handed down from God to Moses at the moment the command was given to make sure that Passover always falls in the springtime.

According to religious tradition, all of the laws found in the Torah, both written and oral, were given by God to Moses, some of them at Mount Sinai and others at the Tabernacle, and all the teachings were written down by Moses, which resulted in the Torah we have today.

Over time, the general view in the Jewish community came to be one of acceptance of Moses de Leon's claims, with the Zohar seen as an authentic book of mysticism passed down from the 2nd century.

In Exodus 7 ( Parshat Va ' eira in the Torah ), God sends Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh once more, instructing Aaron that when Pharaoh demands to see a miracle, he is to " cast down his rod " and it will become a serpent.

But when it was transmitted, Moses merely wrote it down like a secretary taking dictation .... every verse in the Torah is equally holy, as they all originate from God, and are all part of God's Torah, which is perfect, holy and true.

However, he soon again began to express rationalistic and skeptical views ; he expressed doubts whether biblical law was divinely sanctioned or whether it was simply written down by Moses.

Moses noticed that when his arms were raised the Israelites gained the upper hand, but when they were down the Amalekites struck back.

Kreen had attempted to murder Tuf because he blames Moses ' plagues upon Tuf, who has gained an interstellar reputation as an ecological engineer, and Tuf realizes that Moses ' " plagues " ( actually low-tech simulations easily imposed by sabotage upon the closed system of an arcology ) offer him an opportunity for revenue.

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 ).

Although Muslim scholars have often debated over who this verse refers to, most classical commentators and modern translators have taken the opinion that this refers to Amram, the father of Moses and Aaron.

God was said to have communicated with Moses " from between the two cherubim " on the Ark's cover.

These messengers have included Moses, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, and others.

Despite their appearance at the end of the Book of Judges, certain characters ( like Jonathan, the grandson of Moses ) and idioms present in the epilogue show that the therein " must have taken place ... early in the period of the judges.

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Nahum, taking words from Moses himself, have shown in a general way what sort of " Being God is ".

* Alternatively, the device's invention has been popularly attributed to Mary the Jewess, an ancient alchemist traditionally supposed to have been Miriam, a sister of Moses.

However, according to The Jewish Alchemists, Maria the Jewess was an ancient alchemist who lived in Alexandria, which would seem to contradict the tradition that she was Moses ' sister: Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 334 BC, while Moses is thought to have lived around 1450-1200 BC.

Barnes ' Notes on the New Testament comments on these verses saying: " These comprehend the substance of what Moses in the law, and what the prophets have spoken.

However, with the exceptions of Smith's translation of portions of the book of Book of Genesis ( renamed Selections from the Book of Moses ) and the translation of Matthew ( called Joseph Smith – Matthew ), no portions of the Joseph Smith Translation have been officially canonized by the LDS Church.

Most Christians believe that the kosher food laws do not apply to them as they are no longer under the Law of Moses, and that, as Jesus taught in Mark 7: what you eat doesn't make you unclean but what comes out of a man's heart makes him unclean — although Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy have their own set of dietary observances.

Another scholar of the time interested in grimoires, the antiquarian bookseller Johann Scheible, first published the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, two influential magical texts that claimed to have been written by the ancient Jewish figure Moses.

In Numbers 27: 1-4, the daughters of Zelophehad ( Mahlah, Noa, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah ) of the tribe of Manasseh come to Moses and ask for their father's inheritance, as they have no brothers.

I shall endeavour to persuade you, that He who is said to have appeared to Abraham, and to Jacob, and to Moses, and who is called God, is distinct from Him who made all things, I mean numerically, not in will.

But so much is written for the sake of proving that Jesus the Christ is the Son of God and His Apostle, being of old the Word, and appearing sometimes in the form of fire, and sometimes in the likeness of angels ; but now, by the will of God, having become man for the human race, He endured all the sufferings which the devils instigated the Jews to inflict upon Him ; who, though they have it expressly affirmed in the writings of Moses, “ And the angel of God spake to Moses in a flame of fire in a bush, and said, I am that I am, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ,” yet maintain that He who said this was the Father and Creator of the universe.

“ 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.

Later in the journey the people began running low on supplies and again murmured against Moses and Aaron and said they would have preferred to die in Egypt, but God's provision of manna from the sky in the morning and quail in the evening took care of the situation.

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.