The Prince of Egypt

Moving on from Genesis I have began reading Exodus. Let’s start with my first impression of Exodus. Just from the name I imagined it a kind of version of angels and demons, powerful and mysterious. The name I think gives off a sort of different impression. Little did I know it was actually the story of “The Prince Of Egypt” a Disney movie from my childhood. So basically it starts off with Moses freeing the slaves and talking to the burning bush (God), “And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.” Exodus 3:3. So he goes back and reports to the people about God the burning bush. I do believe this because I am catholic and believe in the Bible, but I can’t help to wonder what the people must have actually thought when Moses says he just had a conversation with a burning bush.

Dialogue:

Moses: My people I have just talked to a burning bush, so it looks like we’re all saved.

People: What in the world… are you sure we should be letting him save us?

Frankly I would have been a little skeptical about the whole matter. Moses then goes to the pharaoh and asks him to let his people go. The pharaoh is his adoptive brother who he grew up with. The story of Moses actually begins with the previous pharaoh’s wife finding Moses in a basket sailing across the river and adopting him as a son.  So Moses is asking his “brother” to free his people. The pharaoh declines his request of freeing the slaves from Egypt. So Moses asks God for help and he makes a plague killing lots of royalty including the pharaoh’s son. The only ones who survived were the slaves who were told by Moses to paint an x in lamb blood across their front doors.

The story is very long so ill just give a few more essential details. Moses does this wicked awesome open sesame thing and parts the ocean to lead his people to the promis land. At the promis land the ten commandments are born.

Ten Comandmens:

"And God spoke all these words, saying: 'I am the LORD your God… 

ONE: 'You shall have no other gods before Me.'  

TWO: 'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.' 

THREE: 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.' 

FOUR: 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.' 

FIVE: 'Honor your father and your mother.' 

SIX: 'You shall not murder.' 

SEVEN: 'You shall not commit adultery.' 

EIGHT: 'You shall not steal.' 

NINE: 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.' 

TEN: 'You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.'