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'''Moses ('''Hebrew: משֶׁה)<ref>[https://biblehub.com/hebrew/4872.htm 4872. Mosheh], ''Bible Hub''</ref>was a leader who guided the Israelites who were oppressed in Egypt to the land of [[Canaan]] that [[God]] promised to them. He was a son of Amram and Jochebed, Levites. He was raised as a step son of an Egyptian princess. He gave up his comfortable life as the prince of Egypt and suffered with his people.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+11%3A24-26&version=NIV |title=Hebrews 11:24–26 |publisher= |quote=}}</ref> He is the writer of the [https://www.britannica.com/topic/Torah Pentateuch] and the prophet who represents the Old Testament times. At the age of eighty, he was called by God to lead the Israelites during the [[Exodus]] and [[Life in Desert|the forty-year journey in the desert]], and he received the [[Ten Commandments]] directly from God. Moses’ work in the [[The Old Testament|Old Testament]] symbolizes the work of [[Jesus Christ]].

One day, Moses drove his sheep to Horeb (Mount Sinai),<ref name="장인 이드로">{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+3%3A1&version=NIV |title=Exodus 3:1 |publisher= |quote=}}</ref> the mountain of God, and found flames of fire from within a bush. When Moses tried to get close to it, God commanded Moses, "Do not come any closer, but Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is a holy ground." God told Moses, who was afraid, a plan of delivering the Israelites out of Egypt and lead them to the land of Canaan flowing with milk and honey. He entrusted Moses with the mission to save the Israelites.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+3%3A2-10&version=NIV|title=Exodus 3:2–10|date=}}</ref><br>Moses thought he was not the one who could be entrusted with the task, but God encouraged him and said He would be with him<ref>[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+3%3A11-12&version=NIV Exodus 3:11-12]</ref>. Moses asked God to show the Israelites a convincing evidence so that they could trust him. In an instant, God showed him the miracle of the staff of Moses turning into a serpent and the miracle of leprosy on his hand.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+4%3A2-7&version=NIV |title=Exodus 4:2–7 |publisher= }}</ref> Although seeing the power of God right before his eyes, Moses hesitated again and said he was not eloquent.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+4%3A10&version=NIV |title=Exodus 4:10 |publisher= |quote=}}</ref> God told Moses that He is the [[Creator]] who gave man his mouth and said, “I will help.” When Moses asked God once again to entrust the mission to another competent person, God’s anger burned against Moses and said that his brother, [[Aaron]], would speak to the Israelites on his behalf. Then, Moses accepted his mission and said goodbye to Jethro, his father-in-law, and headed for Egypt with his family. Moses was 80 years old at that time.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+7%3A23-30&version=NIV |title=Acts 7:23–30 |publisher= |quote=}}</ref>

By the power of the Passover, the Israelites [[Exodus|came out of Egypt]] and arrived in front of the [[Red Sea]] and encamped there.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+14%3A1-2&version=NIV |title=Exodus 14:1–2 |publisher= |quote=}}</ref> At that time, Pharaoh changed his mind and pursued the Israelites with six hundred of the best chariots along with all the other chariots of Egypt. The Israelites feared and cried out to God and grumbled against Moses, saying, “It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!"<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+14%3A6-12&version=NIV |title=Exodus 14:6–12 |publisher= }}</ref> Moses reassured the Israelites that God would fight for them.<br>According to God’s word, Moses stretched out his staff over the sea.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+14%3A15-16&version=NIV |title=Exodus 14:15–16 |publisher= |quote=}}</ref> Then, the sea was divided and a dry ground appeared. All that night, God drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+14%3A21&version=NIV |title=Exodus 14:21 |publisher= |quote=}}</ref> The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.  When the Egyptian army came after the Israelites into the sea, God made the wheels of their chariots come off so that they had difficulty driving.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+14%3A22-25&version=NIV |title=Exodus 14:22–25 |publisher= }}</ref><br>At daybreak, Moses stretched out his hand over the sea by following God's word, and the sea went back to its place; the Egyptians were fleeing toward it, and God swept them into the sea. The Israelites landed safely on the other side of the land. The Israelites, who had witnessed the power of God, feared God and trusted Moses.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+14%3A27-31&version=NIV |title=Exodus 14:27–31 |publisher= }}</ref>

God descended to Mount Sinai and proclaimed the [[Ten Commandments]] while the Israelites gathered together.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20%3A1-17&version=NIV |title=Exodus 20:1–17 |publisher= }}</ref> They were afraid that they would die when they heard God’s voice, so they asked Moses to deliver God’s word on His behalf.<ref name="우뢰소리">{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20%3A18-19&version=NIV |title=Exodus 20:18–19 |publisher= |quote=}}</ref> Moses was the only person who faced God.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+33%3A11&version=NIV |title=Exodus 33:11 |publisher= |quote=}}</ref> The people heard God’s voice like the thunder, but Moses heard and understood it correctly.<ref name="우뢰소리" /> God let the people go back to their tents and called Moses separately. Then, He taught all the laws and regulations, including [[The Feasts of God|the seven feast in three times]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+23%3A14-17&version=NIV |title=Exodus 23:14–17 |publisher= }}</ref> When Moses delivered God’s word to the people, they replied with one voice that they would obey the word.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+24%3A3&version=NIV |title=Exodus 24:3 |publisher= |quote=}}</ref><br>God told Moses to go up to Mount Sinai, so that He would give him the tablets of stone with the law and the commandments written on it.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+24%3A12&version=NIV |title=Exodus 24:12 |publisher= |quote=}}</ref> From that day on, Moses went up to Mount Sinai and stayed there forty days and nights without eating bread or drinking water.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+24%3A15-18&version=NIV |title=Exodus 24:15-18 |publisher= |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+9%3A9&version=NIV |title=Deuteronomy 9:9 |publisher= |quote=}}</ref> God commanded Moses to build a [[Sanctuary (Tabernacle)|sanctuary (tabernacle)]] that He would dwell among His people. He showed Moses in detail the structure, size, shape, and materials of the sanctuary, and told him to build it exactly how it was shown.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+25%3A1-9&version=NIV |title=Exodus 25:1–9 |publisher= }}</ref> Also, God made the two stone tablets of the covenant, meaning the tablets of the Ten Commandments, and asked to store them in the [[Ark of the Covenant|ark of the covenant]] inside the [[The Most Holy Place|Most Holy Place]]. Then, God said He would meet Moses and give him all His commands for the Israelites from above the cover between the two cherubim ([[Angel|angels]]) that were over the ark of the Testimony.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+25%3A21-22&version=NIV |title=Exodus 25:21–22 |publisher= |quote=}}</ref> When God finished speaking to him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of the Testimony, the tablets of stone (of the Ten Commandments) inscribed by the finger of God.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+31%3A18&version=NIV |title=Exodus 31:18 |publisher= |quote=}}</ref>

On the first day of the eleventh month, 40 years after leaving Egypt, Moses and the Israelites arrived in the east of the [[Jordan]] on the plains of Moab. Moses preached his last sermon to the people there. <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+1%3A1&version=NIV |title=Deuteronomy 1:1 |publisher= |quote=}}</ref> Moses looked back on the past [[Life in Desert|40 years in the desert]]. He told them that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. Then, he urge them to fear God and keep His commands because God had them walk in the desert so that in the end it might go well with them. Moreover, Moses explained in detail God’s decrees and laws that they must keep all our lives: [[Ten Commandments]], [[The Feasts of God|the feasts]], [[Tithe|tithes]], etc.

*[[Life in Desert]]