Hello everyone, welcome to read this issue of "Little Li Talk Art"! In the last issue we said that the Jews came to live in Egypt under the patronage of Joseph, they left their homeland of Canaan, and since then, the Jews have lived in Egypt for hundreds of years, suffering so much that they are waiting for a great national hero to lead them out of here. This issue tells the story of the great hero Moses.
After the Jews migrated to Egypt, by the time they left Egypt, it took more than four hundred years. They thrived and had a population throughout Egypt. After Joseph's death, the status of the Jews was threatened...
It turned out that the pharaoh joseph was serving at that time belonged to the same people as the Jews, the Semitic. Egypt was occupied by a people from Thexos from Arabia who ruled Egypt for about 300 years, and Joseph came to Egypt as the last Hyksos king. Later, the Egyptians revolted, overthrew the Hyksos, and elected the Egyptian pharaohs, so that the status of the Jews was inevitably affected. At the same time, in the eyes of the Egyptians, the Jews flourished, were good at business, and robbed them of their jobs, and the Jews were still friends of the former invaders, and naturally they would no longer be treated favorably by the rulers. Worse still, the Jews who have lived in the cities for a long time have gradually forgotten their previous nomadic life and have lost the courage to return to their homeland thousands of miles away, so they have never left Egypt.
The pharaohs of Egypt also racked their brains to think of various ways to suppress the Jewish population. For example, when new projects needed to be built, Jews were sent to do the hardest and most tiring work, deliberately embarrassing them, but they did not suffer much damage to the Jewish population. At this time, Pharaoh had a more vicious method, and he issued a decree in Egypt: "All newborn male babies of the Jews must be thrown into the Nile, and only female babies can be left." ”
Reyni, Killing a Toddler, 1611 oil painting
The painting recreates the egyptian pharaoh at the time who ordered the killing of all the baby boys of the Jews. The mother in the painting looks terrified, shields the knife with her body, and faces the executioner in front of her, but they are powerless, and the atmosphere is tragic.
It was in this context that Moses was born...
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" > Moses was born</h1>
After Pharaoh's ban, Moses was born, and he had a sister and an older brother. Moses' parents could not bear to throw their children into the Nile, so they quietly raised them at home for three months. But the child cried too loudly and attracted the attention of the Egyptians. Moses' parents heard that the Egyptian princess had a kind heart and went to the nearby river every day to bathe. So they put the child in a box and deliberately put it in the grass by the river, hoping to be found by the princess. Moses' sister hid in the distance to watch, and sure enough, the kind princess adopted the Jewish child. Moses' sister rushed to her and said, "Good princess, shall I help you find a Jewish mother to be his wet nurse?" The princess agreed, and she hurried home to call her mother, so Moses was raised by his biological mother from an early age. Later, the princess named the child "Moses", which means "the child who was pulled up in the water".
Claude Lauren, Discovery of Moses, 1637-1639 oil painting
Lauren was a classical painter known for his landscape paintings, in which he embellished the story of Moses with the story of discovery in the landscape, showing a fresh effect, and the landscape in the painting later became a model for film, opera, drama and other performances.
Discover Moses
Tipporo, Discovery of Moses, 1730 oil painting
The woman standing on the river in the picture is the Egyptian princess, she found Moses abandoned by the river, the barefoot picture is Moses's mother, the girl in blue on the left is Moses' sister, the painter portrays the scene of Moses being rescued with bright tones and imaginative compositions.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" > Moses into exile</h1>
After Moses became the righteous son of the princess, he lived in the court and lived a comfortable life. His mother-in-law often told him about the history of the Jewish nation and taught him the language of his own. When Moses grew up, his mother told him the whole story, he knew the truth of everything, and he knew that he had Jewish blood flowing in his body. From then on, Moses often visited his fellow citizens, who he saw were living in dire straits under the enslavement of the Egyptians. One day, Moses saw the Egyptian overseer whipping a Jew, and he killed the overseer in a fit of rage, and Moses, fearing that the news would reach Pharaoh, fled Egypt overnight.
Moses came to the desert near the Red Sea, where the Midianites lived, and the Midianites and the Jews had the same ancestry and belonged to the clan, so Moses wanted to go to them. Moses sat down by a well to rest, when the daughters of the local priest, Jetero, came to drink water with their flocks. Suddenly, several shepherds came and drove away the sheep of Thera's daughters and fed them. Moses, seeing this, was very indignant, rushed forward, and taught this group of unreasonable guys a harsh lesson, and several shepherds found that they were not Moses' opponents, and had to flee in a gray way. Moses' courage won the applause of the girls, who invited Moses to his home.
Back at home, the priest Yethro listened to his daughters tell the whole story, and he said that Moses must stay here for a few more days to express their gratitude. Later, Jetero learned from Moses that he was also a Jew and a distant relative of his own. So Jetero married one of his daughters, a girl named Sipola, to Moses. From then on, Moses became a shepherd in this desert, living a simple and happy life.
Mosaic of The Sheep Caressed by Moses
Moses was 40 years old when he married, and he lived here for another 40 years, during which time he had two sons, one named Ge shun and the other named Elijah. In the picture, Moses' hand caresses the lamb, and the lamb slightly tilts its head, showing a gentle posture, and the picture is rich and vivid.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" > Moses' mission</h1>
One day when Moses was eighty years old, he took his flock to the foot of Mount Sinai. Suddenly he noticed a bush of thorns burning, but it was not damaged in the slightest. Just as he was at a loss for words, God cried out his name—"Moses, Moses!" God said, "I am the God of your Jews and the God of your ancestors, and I see that My people are suffering in Egypt, and I now order you to go to Egypt and bring them out and return to the place where your ancestors lived." Moses said to God, "Then how can I convince the Jews that I am God's messenger?" So God gave Moses three miracles: the first was that Moses threw his cane on the ground, and the cane could immediately turn into a snake; the second miracle was to pull his hand out of his arms, and the hand was full of leprosy, and then put his hand into his arms, intact; the third miracle was to take water from the river and fall it to the ground, and it would become blood. So Moses accepted God's mission to Jehovah, bid farewell to his father-in-law, Vitello, and took his wife and children on a journey to Egypt...