Dathan and Abiram - The Fight Moses Tried to Break Up

Hebraic Literature (1901)Moses Sits on a Stone While Israel Fights AmalekDuring the war with Amalek, the Israelites were losing whenever Moses's hands grew heavy and fell. Aaron and Hur took a stone and placed it under him so he coul

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on ExodusWhen Moses First Walked Among His BrothersHe had grown up in silk. Now he stepped out into the brick kilns. "And in those days when Mosheh was grown up, he went forth to his brethren, and saw the anguis

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on ExodusThe Moment Moses Realized Everyone KnewDathan's answer is a dagger. "Who is he who hath appointed thee a chief man and a judge over us? Wilt thou kill me, said he, as thou didst the Mizraite? And Mos

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on ExodusThe 613 Commandments Written on the Tablets of SinaiThe plain Hebrew of (Exodus 24:12) reads simply that God promised Moses the tablets of stone, the Torah, and the commandment. The Targum Pseudo-Jonathan cannot

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on ExodusThe Evil Eye of the Wicked on Moses' BackNot everyone watched Moses walk to the tabernacle with reverence. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, the Aramaic paraphrase of the Torah, catches a detail the plain text l

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on ExodusHow Murder Adultery Theft and False Witness Wound the WorldThe Targum Pseudo-Jonathan takes the four short commandments of the second tablet and expands each into a thundering sermon. Every prohibition ends with a cosmi

Dathan and Abiram - The Fight Moses Tried to Break Up

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