Torah. The Pentateuch of Moses in weekly chapters, in poetic form - страница 9

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When he saw his fellow man beaten, he killed the Egyptian torturer,

‘And that he might not be punished by Pharaoh for his murder.

Moshe hurried to the neighbouring country of Midyan.

In Midyan Moshe married Tzipòra, the daughter of the priest of Yitro,

At Mount Sinai, G-d revealed Himself to Moshe in a flame of burning thorns.

And promises to help His Chosen People in the mountain,

Aoron is commanded by G-d to be Moshe’s interpreter.

G-d is merciful to His beloved child,

He didn’t leave Moshe in trouble despite his change of tradition.

He sent Moshe to lead the Jews out of the Egyptian hell…

Did not dissolve to make the people of Israel in a foreign environment.

From the mouth of Moses the statements of the Creator were heard by the Egyptian Pharaoh:

‘Let My son go, that He may serve Me.’

For keeping their names, the Jewish people were forgiven,

The love of liberty for their own and others’ freedom, Israel has kept it ever since.

Book: Exodus

Weekly Chapter: Va’erah #14

G-d reveals Himself to Moshe and promises him to lead the Jewish people out of Egypt,

deliver them from slavery, save them, and take them to Himself as His chosen people at Mount Sinài.

G-d declared to Pharaoh, ‘Let My people go…’, and in the absence of an answer-rescript,

He inflicted great executions on the fertile land of Egypt.

Aaron’s staff turns into a serpent, the Nile River flows blood instead of water,

Toads, lice and wild beasts invade Egyptian cities,

Pestilence, boils, hail from heaven – Pharaoh was hardened by the calamity that fell from heaven,

But the tyrant of Egypt did not let the Children of Israel go out of Egypt…

Book: Exodus

Weekly Chapter: BO #15

Locusts, darkness, and the death of the firstborn – the three final and most severe punishments of the ten,

G-d sent to Egypt to show that there is only One Lord of the world.

The transformation of a tribe of slaves into a free people could not take place,

without the opposition of monotheism to the Egyptian sacred idols.

G-d gives the Jewish people the first commandment to establish their own calendar,

The months of the new moon, in which they must henceforth.

To sacrifice a lamb for Passover and to stain their doorposts with blood,

That G-d may pass over them, before the Egyptian firstborns are punished.

The death of the firstborn breaks Pharaoh’s resistance, and he drives the Jews out,