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ng and therefore set stringent daily quotas for his hebrew brick makers the more the numbers of bricks they made each day the more egypt became great national greatness regardless of country has after all always depended as much on economic productivity as on feats of arms soon after thutmose s new orders about straw collecting began to be applied an agitated group of hebrew workers accosted moses they shouted have you any idea of what you ve done we re being beaten till we bleed if we can t make our quotas we re in hell this is where you ll be going too unless you do something and quick sources exodus 5 6 21 how a brick is made posted in exodus 5 tagged aaron bible egypt exodus literature moses mythology religion thutmose leave a comment meeting again posted on may 28 2018 by christopher when moses and aaron arrived at the palace a guard ushered them into a chamber where the pharaoh awaited them the pharaoh who in history is known to us as thutmose iii but who moses had known as baby thut sat behind a very high table the pharaoh pointed to two low chairs in front of the table for moses and aaron to sit on despite that moses had last seen thutmose as a truculent teenager he straightaway saw the baby thut he had known lurking behind the visage of the now sixtyish pharaoh thutmose likewise saw the forty year old moses he had known lurking behind the visage of the now eightyish moses we meet again said thutmose yes er i suppose we do your majesty said moses this here is my brother aaron i had guessed said thutmose what can i do for you well your majesty it s like this the god of israel who is my god too and also aaron s ha ha ha wants you to let his people go for three days so they might make a sacrifice to him in the wilderness you can tell this so called god of yours to mind his own business said the pharaoh who moses could see still had the same truculence when he d known the pharaoh as baby thut what our god is asking isn t much your majesty said moses just three days off for all the hebrews in egypt to engage in a sacrificial ritual to him you ll know as well as i said the pharaoh that there are now more hebrews in egypt than there are egyptians should i let all my hebrew workers off for three days for anything let alone for sacrificing to their god egypt s economy would collapse and egypt would therefore no longer be great work work work produce produce produce this is the egyptian way it s why egypt is great your majesty your hebrew workers after three days off would return refreshed to their work and would produce even more than they do now making egypt even greater said moses you always did have a way with words said the pharaoh the forty years since i last saw you appear not to have diminished this talent however you fail to persuade i ll therefore have to turn your god s request down now i have other things to do guard show these men out source exodus 5 1 5 posted in exodus 5 tagged aaron bible egypt exodus literature moses mythology religion thutmose leave a comment reversing the reversal posted on march 19 2018 by christopher while walking with aaron towards the palace for their audience with the pharaoh moses ran through in his mind all that he knew about this pharaoh moses knew a lot about him despite that information gathering then was so much more primitive than today what with our cell phones smartphones televisions and whatnot so much are we in thrall to them we have difficulty even imagining how news got around before then somehow though it did as it has always even in the days of moses more than three thousand five hundred years ago hence moses got to know that this pharaoh who today we call thutmose iii used to be the very boy called affectionately baby thut who hatshepsut was the regent of when moses still lived at the palace as a de facto prince in the egyptian royal household baby thut had not liked hatshepsut one bit seeing her as bossy and manipulative and he hadn t liked moses one bit either because he d feared hatshepsut would make changes in the law to enable moses to be her co pharaoh thus supplanting the teen aged baby thut s claim and moses was a hebrew the very thought of a hebrew as egypt s co pharaoh a position baby thut considered his by birthright caused his blood to boil and nearly spill over also hatshepsut had reversed egypt s traditional policies of military aggression abroad in favour of more edifice building in egypt itself hatshepsut reasoned that if egypt was to be great again it would start at home in egypt she wanted egypt to be admired not feared hence under hatshepsut s rule lots of large and ornate monuments temples chapels and obelisks went up when hatshepsut died and baby thut took over as pharaoh he reversed hatshepsut s reversal he set in motion what he thought egypt had always done best engage in military adventures in many neighbouring lands this was how to make egypt great again thought baby thut he sent his armies south into nubia and beyond and into the coastal areas of the levant where egypt became numero uno it didn t take long before at even a mention of egypt in any conversation the peoples of these conquered lands shook in their sandals with fear even this wasn t enough for baby thut whose resentment at hatshepsut still made his blood boil the only way to stop it boiling for good was to erase her completely from memory and from history so baby thut had hatshepsut s name and image removed from all the monuments temples chapels and obelisks she had put up all this was in moses mind as he and aaron neared the palace gates sources exodus 4 19 20 thutmose iii hatshepsut posted in exodus 4 tagged aaron bible egypt exodus hatshepsut literature moses mythology religion 4 comments catching up posted on march 17 2018 by christopher when moses at the end of his journey crossed the frontier into egypt he found his brother aaron waiting for him as a reader of this blog you ll recall god telling moses he would contact aaron and tell him he must always be at moses side as emotional support in the difficult times to come moses and aaron had not seen each other since when they were small boys therefore it might have been difficult for them to recognise each other after so long a time almost eighty years however moses and aaron being brothers and close in age aaron was the older by three years had always looked much alike so as soon as they set eyes on each other each immediately knew he was looking at his brother they embraced and spent the next little while catching up on each other s news over the last eighty years aaron living as he did in the hebrew community in goshen was able to give moses an indelible and graphic picture of the hardships of the hebrews under the unrelentingly cruel yoke of their egyptian masters i m overjoyed brother said aaron that you re going to free us and lead us back to where we came from i can tell you now though that you won t find this easy because from what we know of him the pharaoh is going to take some persuading to allow us all to leave you re forgetting that god will be watching over us said moses and you re forgetting i have this he waved the walking stick that could transform into a snake at his command the first thing we have to do said aaron is get us an audience with the pharaoh i do have contacts at the palace who i ll ask to persuade the pharaoh to see us meanwhile come and stay at my house where you can have a good wash and clean clothes and meet some of the rest of the family after a few days aaron received word from the palace that the pharaoh would be pleased to receive him and his brother source exodus 4 19 20 posted in exodus 4 tagged aaron bible egypt exodus literature moses mythology religion leave a comment re filling posted on march 2 2018 by christopher while walking to egypt to carry out what god wanted him to do there moses had constant feelings of deja vu no doubt because he was walking on the very same road he d walked on in coming from egypt to the land of midian forty years before when he himself had been forty now at eighty he had doubled his age although in some ways he felt no different from when he d been forty but in other ways he felt his eighty years men who didn t know him saw only an old man and they treated him as such moses was only too aware of this his eighty year old self still thought about hatshepsut constantly in his mind s eye she was always young and at her most desirable she was the hatshepsut who had visited him in the night out of no where some years previously when she seemed not to have aged at all that hatshepsut was now gone forever if she d still been in this earthly realm she d have been ninety or more wrinkled toothless hunchbacked would moses still have desired this hatshepsut probably not moses thought but he still might just have in his arms he might still see the once young hatshepsut hiding beneath the very old one these were the thoughts that most consumed moses while on the road back to egypt he had considered taking zipporah and the two boys gershom and eliezer young men now actually with him he decided not to because their presence day and night would crush his spirit he could only abide them in his normal daily life because he spent his days alone shepherding jethro s sheep who he found far more congenial as company than zipporah gershom or eliezer when travelling on foot and living off the land by catching snakes and lizards for food and squeezing out cacti for drinking water as moses was doing the last thing he wanted was a bickering and complaining family with him in any case he wanted to make this journey alone because he simply liked being alone moses saw the world much differently from anyone else regardless of who that anyone else was his was a brain that saw the whole rather than the whole s particulars whereas others seemed to him always to see just the particulars rather than the whole moses therefore had much difficulty seeing their points of view he was good though at pretending to see their points of view but only for the sake of harmony with them hence he could never be truly himself unless alone people bored him they drained him of his emotional energy until he felt like a carcass he could hardly wait to escape people so he could re fill the only exception for moses had been hatshepsut he would never completely recover from her loss something else was weighing on moses spirit he d discovered he didn t like god he d fought against this feeling for what could be more sinful than not liking god try as he might he just couldn t manage to feel otherwise moses experienced god as authoritarian cruel capricious thin skinned self obsessed the very opposite of the loving god his birth mother jochebed had told him about when he was a little boy before being taken to egypt to grow up there the now old moses continued on the road back to egypt source exodus 4 19 20 posted in exodus 4 tagged bible egypt exodus hatshepsut literature moses mythology religion 7 comments silver tonguely posted on february 25 2018 by christopher is there anything else you wish to speak of before i send you on your way to egypt said god to moses i still don t think i m the man for this undertaking said moses for one thing i m slow and hesitant of speech the miracles you ve empowered me to perform aside i m going to need to have a silver and glib tongue if i m to make my case successfully on your behalf to the hebrews and pharaoh i detect no slowness or hesitancy in your speech when you speak to me said god what you ve just said about your alleged slowness and hesitance of speech is as glib and as silver tongued as anything i ve heard from humans and why shouldn t this be i ll remind you that you had the very best of educations when you grew up in the egyptian royal household this included public speaking i ll remind you also that you rose to become a general in the egyptian army and led men in battle with the nubians and others of egypt s enemies if there s any man best able silver tonguely to persuade the hebrews and pharaoh into my point of view it s you yes but please have the courtesy not to interrupt it s just possible you are minutely less silver tongued than when you were young the last forty years you ve spent communing mainly with sheep could have something to do with it but the effect is marginal it doesn t feel that way to me i m the best judge said god the truth is you just don t want to undertake the task i ve set you you ve become too comfortable too complacent this plus that you re now eighty has made you more risk averse than once you were on the other hand your years with the sheep and your age have bestowed on you a wisdom and maturity you didn t have before this will help inestimably when you are crossing swords metaphorically of course with the hebrews and pharaoh well er yes er i suppose so i m glad you re beginning to see this my way said god now i m going to do something i think you ll like i m going to get your older brother aaron to help you i know you still fondly remember him even though you were just a little boy when you last saw him i m going to tell aaron to be at your side at all times when you re in egypt so that he ll bear some of the burden of the vicissitudes and hardships you may encounter there s nothing like having a big brother around right moses you and aaron will make the perfect team well er yes er i suppose so said moses source exodus 4 10 17 posted in exodus 4 tagged bible egypt exodus god literature moses mythology religion leave a comment trust posted on february 24 2018 by christopher what will i do said moses if i go to egypt as you want me to and i tell the hebrews there and the pharaoh too all that you ve told me i mean were i any one of them i wouldn t stop laughing god said from the burning bush that stick you re holding throw it on the ground and see what happens the stick on striking the ground changed into a snake a full length spitting cobra that didn t appear at all pleased its tranquil life as a stick was being so rudely upended moses made as if to run don t said god just pick it up by the tail it won t bite you moses did so tremblingly whereupon the snake changed back to a stick you must be a magician said moses that s one way of putting it said god but i d rather you regarded me as who i am the god of abraham of isaac and of jacob i ve told you this before unless you look on me as such things won t go at all well with you you ve told me this before said moses put your hand inside your cloak said god see what happens moses did so nothing seemed to happen now take your hand out moses hand when he took it out looked as white as death and diseased like leprosy put your hand back then out again when moses did this he saw his hand was altogether healed crikey should this still not be enough to stop the hebrews and pharaoh laughing at you fetch some water from the nile pour it on the ground and it ll turn into blood seeing as the nile ...