Brace

Biblical account

The life of Brace told in the bible cuts out in three parts of approximately forty years each one:

Initially regarded as being of the nobility, since it was adopted by the girl of Pharaon, it discovers the misery of its people of origin and keep silent an Egyptian foreman who beat a Hebrew . It has quickly other choice only to be exiled in the desert.
During the second time, Moïse lends strong hand to the girls of the priest of Madian, Jéthro (or Yitro ). It Marie with one of them, Tsippora (Séphora), and carries out a life of shepherd recluse, “making feed his sheep far in the desert”.
It is at the 80 years age that God appears with him and reveals its mission to him. “ the angel of the Eternal appeared to him in the middle of a bush whereas it made feed the sheep of sound beautiful father. ” It leads the " then; Children of Israel " out of Egypt, until the " promised land " , the Country of Canaan, on the threshold of which he dies, at 120 years.

Birth of Brace (according to the Exodus and Midrach)

The parents of Brace, Amram and Yokébed, come both from the house of Lévi (which will be devoted later to the service of God after the episode of the Golden calf).

" When the child had grown, it brought back it to the girl of Pharaon who treated it like a son and the name of Brace gave him (MSH, Moshé ), because, she, " said; water I drew it " (MSYTHW, Mechitihou ) ( Exodus , 2.10). Beyond this traditional etymology, one points out that the hiéroglyphe ms means “generated”, “resulting from”, “born” to compare with Ramsès (“Re generated it”) and Thoutmôsis (“born from Thot”) or Hermes “resulting from the light”. Thus one could just as easily translate Moïse by “That which was born” what constitutes an elegant metaphor to designate “the initiate” which one knows that it must die to reappear, at least if one is initiated oneself even, whereas for the layman the name of Brace revêt another more ordinary significance. After her birth, his/her mother hiding place the child during three months then gives up it in a basket on the the Nile, close to bank. The girl of the Pharaon, which bathed with courtesans, finds the child and decides to adopt it (inspired in this gesture by the angel Gabriel, according to the Midrash), although immediately suspecting the child of being Hebrew.

She asks then a little girl who was there to find a nurse to him among the Hebrews to raise it. This little girl, Myriam, which was not other than the sister of Brace, introduces her mother to him.

Famous a Midrash tells that one Moïse day playing on the knees of the Pharaon conceals his crown to him. Y seeing ill omen, the magi of the monarch suggest with this one the setting with immediate death of the child. However, Jéthro, priest of Madian, proposes to put to the test what was perhaps only play of child, and makes place Moïse in front of a diamond plate and burning embers. Does brace precipitate towards the diamond plate, but stumbles (following the intervention of Gabriel?) towards burning embers. In its fright, it carries its fingers to the mouth and burns the language and the lips. It is from there that the stammering comes from Brace.

Become adult, Moïse realizes of the difficult living conditions of his/her brothers of blood. Seeing an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man, it checks that it the only then is concealed Egyptian and buries it. The terms have their importance: Brace sees a man striking a man. Its gesture is thus far from being impresses of party taken. As the Talmud will say it later, if you see one of your brothers striking an infidel, saves the infidel.

The following days, noting that the business had spread, he flees of Egypt towards the country of Madian. Arrived to a well, it defends of the shepherdesses of Madian against of other shepherds. Those offer hospitality in thanks to him. Brace is thus found in Madian, where the priest, Jethro (יתרו) also called Réuel (רעואל) gives him his daughter Séphora (צפורה) in marriage.

( Adapted Exodus 2. )

The call of God (Exodus 3)

Exodus 3.

Whereas it is taken refuge in Madian and that it keeps the herds of his father-in-law, Moïse saw a particular experiment, that the bible describes like a Vocation: God calls it interior of a bush which burns without being consumed, which had drawn its attention.

Its mission will consist in releasing the Hebrew people of the slavery which it undergoes in Egypt.
to accredit it near the Hebrews, God appears with him under its name, in continuity with the tradition of his/her fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This name seems well to be the Tétragramme (YHWH), interpreted just in the context by a formula which seems to want to explain it: I am that which I am , which can mean that He refuses to name himself, or that its name is precisely about the supreme Être, imperceptible and indéterminable, always present and faithful to its people. In the Jewish tradition , one refuses to pronounce this name, by respect. In the Greek translation of this passage, the terms employed open the door with an interpretation of a metaphysical nature: I am the étant". Taking into consideration context, the minimum which one can retain is that who appears is at the same time the Imperceptible one and the Faithful one par excellence.

Moïse starts by excusing its mission, envisaging the difficulties of having to face Pharaon. He then receives means and a sign which will not exempt it to go in the faith through the difficulties: means of a supernatural nature, which will be then deployed in the continuation of the plagues of Egypt (see low), but also of a natural nature, as assistance of his/her brother Aaron; a future sign, consistent in the advertisement of its return on this same place with the people.

After this event, Moïse gives up its situation of shepherd and turns over to Egypt.

ten plagues of Egypt

( Exodus , chapters 7 with 12)

water of the Nile becomes color of blood;
the frogs invade Egypt;
the flies and the mosquitos attack people;
vermins appear;
an epidemic of plague attacks the cattle;
the inhabitants catch furoncles;
hail destroys harvests;
the grasshoppers devour the vegetation;
darkness reigns during three days;
the first-born Egyptians die.

There is in the Bible of other lists.

The exodus in the desert

After his exit of Egypt, God made cross to the people the Red Sea which was closed again then on the Egyptian army which tried to catch up with them, then led it to the foot of the Mont the Sinai, where Moïse goes up to receive the Ten Commands. When Moïse went down from the Sinai mount, he saw the Hebrews under the control of his brother Aaron, to adore a Golden calf (the worship of an idol was a thing literally prohibited by the third command), he was took of an anger so large which he crashed to pieces the Tables of the Law on a rock. Brace then had to turn over to the top of the Sinai mount in order to regraver the tables.

With the wire of miracles, God strengthens the authority of Brace on the proving people thus that he was well his envoy. However the people will not have of cease to murmur against Moïse and God repeating only at least in Egypt, it lived better. Then, the people arrive in front of the promised land and Moïse sends twelve spies to recognize the country. Ten of them will discourage from the people attacking the country in spite of the support of the Eternal. Thus God was annoyed and decided to make them walk in the desert still forty years, so that nobody of those which had left Egypt enters the promised land except Josué and Caleb, the two spies favorable to the conquest. S: Numbers 14

Prophet of Islam

Died of Brace

According to the Bible ( Numbers , 20,7-13), Brace - having, to twice water the Hebrew people, struck of sound stick by the rock of Meriba - instead of to have spoken with the rock - is not authorized to enter out of promised land. It however is authorized to embrace it glance, top of the Mont Nébo where it dies, at 120 years ( Deutéronome , 34,1-9). Before dying, it names Josué like successor to conquer the promised land.

According to the revelation of Ares (Gospel given to Arès 2/8), Moïse (Ugly) was buried in Rabba; it is probably about Rabbat Ben-Ammon, today Amman, capital of Jordan.

Artistic representation

most known is the sculpture of Michel-Angel (towards 1515), located at the basilica Saint-Pierre-with-Bonds with Rome and belonging to the monument of the pope Jules {{II}}. This work was the object of an analysis by Sigmund Freud.
the film the Ten Commands of Cecil B. of Thousand of 1956 recalls the life of it.
the cartoon the Prince of Egypt , by the studios DreamWorks, which covers chapters 1 to 20 of the Exode. This film was interdict with the Îles Maldives, because Moïse, as a messenger of God recognized by the Islam, cannot be represented, and it was also interdict in Malaysia without official reason.
the musical comedy " ten commandements" of Élie Chouraqui, Lionel Florence and Pascal Obispo.

See too

Saved water : the saved child of water curiously recalls the history of Sargon d' Akkad (-2334 with -2279) saved water, ten centuries before Moïse.

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