The Jews, after being freed from the clutches of slavery, were on their way to the ‘Promised Land’. The cruel Pharaoh, determined to enslave the Jews once again, was inching closer in hot pursuit. But there was no possibility of escape forwards either. What with the vast expanse of the Red sea in front of […]
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The event that has been considered the most significant of all in the history of the Jews – the ‘Exodus’ had indeed begun! The Jews were forced to migrate to Egypt from diverse places due to the famine that had hit the regions outside Egypt. The sentiment of ‘One nation’…. the ‘Promised Land’, the land […]
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The Pharaoh kept going back on his word of releasing the Jews from bondage and slavery. God then inflicted the nine calamities or the nine plagues one after the other on the Pharaoh and on the people of Egypt, which harassed and hassled them to such an extent that they had lost their good night’s […]
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Moses had no more pretexts to put forward. Moreover, God put all his apprehensions and doubts to rest and very clearly affirmed that Moses indeed would be the one to free the Jews from the bondage and slavery in Egypt and lead them to God’s ‘Promised Land’. God also assured Moses that He would be […]
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Moses was now 40. His inborn virtue of righteousness added to his compassion for his Jewish brethren had already made Moses their leader, their torchbearer. He began to seriously contemplate over the atrocities they faced at the hands of the Egyptians then. With the thought of freeing his Jewish brethren from these atrocities always on […]
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Numbering a mere 70 (‘Seventy Souls’) when they moved to Egypt along with Jacob, the Jews grew in number rapidly over the following few generations and soon their population ran into millions. Though they had mingled well with the Egyptian society, their awareness of their religion, that of the divine vision that their patriarch Abraham […]
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Joseph was moved, he was pained to see his brothers fall at his feet. But maintaining his stern comportment, he had them put behind bars. However, when he listened in on their talks while they were in prison, Joseph was convinced that his brothers had changed. In fact, their talks revealed that they perceived the […]
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So Joseph, who was sold as a slave in Egypt, ended up in prison. But then here too, God did protect him. Impressed with his intelligence and temperament, the prison warden soon put him in charge of supervision of the prison inmates and thus Joseph was spared the hardships he otherwise might have had to […]
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Jacob returned to Canaan after spending many years in the slavery of his uncle, Laban. He bought considerable land in the city of Shechem to graze his sheep flocks. His children looked after his land and flocks in Shechem while Jacob himself stayed at his father’s place in Hebron. Here in Shechem, the son of […]
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Abiding by the warning that God gave to him, Laban did no harm to Jacob. He did, however catch hold of him and inquired about the missing deity idol. Totally unaware of this matter, Jacob allowed Laban to conduct a search on his people and also cursed the perpetrator with death, whoever he be. The […]
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