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Two advisers sat in the room where Egypt decided what to do with the Hebrews. One walked out. Years later the other opened his mouth to curse him.
Scoffers mocked Moses until the Shekhinah, the Divine Presence, rested. Bezalel began with the Ark of light, and the dwelling rose alone.
Moses opened the Tabernacle accounts before Israel and blanked on 1,775 shekels. Heaven lit his eyes. Bezalel built with wisdom.
After Sinai Moses stood outside the finished Tent, afraid of the cloud, until the Holy One called him alone by name.
Moses finished the Tabernacle in three months, then left it folded three more while mockers scoffed until Abrahams month arrived.
Love climbed past every title. God named Israel daughter, then sister, then mother, while Israel's heart stayed awake in exile's sleep.
Israel had bowed to Baal Peor, and a plague killed the guilty. When the war with Midian came, soldiers blackened women's faces and took their jewelry.
The foremen came out of Pharaoh's house with their backs opened and cursed Moses in the road. Moses turned around and said the same thing to God.
On the mountain Moses heard every vessel pattern and thought he would build it. God named Bezalel, and Israel built for reward.
After the firstborn died, Pharaoh summoned Moses at midnight and begged Israel to leave, even the flocks he once tried to hold as chains.
Abraham and Moses were chosen but drew themselves near. Aaron alone was chosen and brought close, then blessed Israel standing in the holy tongue.
Acacia boards rose as a pledge Heaven could seize. When Temple and Tent are gone, the righteous become the collateral, and Moses still sees his plan built.
Twelve thousand came home from Midian with no man dead and no man accused. Then they set gold in front of Moses, and he asked what it was for.
The coastal road was shorter. Along it lay Philistine war and Ephraimite bones. God took the people the long way so they would not turn back.
Moses offered to buy every drop of water his people drank. Sihon refused and formed his line, and his own soldiers died of thirst in the Arnon.
The serpent asked tree, mountain, and desert for Moses son of Amram. Each answered with the last work Moses had done to them, then fell silent.
Pharaoh snuck to the river before dawn to hide a god's body, and Moses met him there while frogs later split even palace stone.
A wind from Paradise carried the smell of the paschal lamb until every uncircumcised house chose the blade so it could eat.
Israel called the wilderness a death trap. God answered with beds of cloud, manna, and a well that walked with Miriam.
Three times Balak paid for a curse and got a blessing read back to him. So Bilam stopped selling words and sold him a row of tents.
On the eighth day the people set the last board. Heaven used creation's own words again, and Moses blessed the work of their hands.
Pharaoh's men set a knife on Moses's neck. An angel took his face, the blade found the wrong body, and Eliezer's name kept the rescue forever.
While Moses stays on the mountain, the camp melts gold into thirteen calves and feeds them manna taken from God's own table.
Egypt's sealed slave system breaks as six hundred thousand men march out at once. Yitro hears and admits a greater God rules the world.
At Sinai every word leaves God's mouth at once. Death and life, wound and healing, sea and staff reverse in the same undivided speech.
God offers Moses a cruel choice between his own life and Israel's survival. Moses answers that a thousand like him should die first.
On Mount Hor a cave opened in the rock. Moses eased Aaron inside, then lifted the priestly garments from his brother's living shoulders for Eleazar.
Yithro, called Cohein of Midian, heard what God did for Moses and Israel. He left rank behind and rode toward the camp at the mountain of God.
After nine years of siege and a dead king, Moses starved young storks three days, then loosed them on Balaam's snakes until the city opened.
Moses sent the twelve south through poor country first, like a merchant hiding his best cloth, until Hebron still outshone Egypt's finest field.
