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7 unusual facts about The Exodus


Bir Gifgafa Airfield

It was named Rephidim, after the station mentioned in the Biblical account of the Exodus from Egypt.

Matthew 1:4

Amminadab, whom Matthew states is his grandson, is mentioned in Numbers 1:7 in connection with the post Exodus wandering in the desert.

It covers the period when the Jews were of the captivity in Egypt up to near or after the Exodus.

Matthew 1:5

It covers the period after the Exodus to around the founding of the Kingdom of Israel.

Matthew 4

There are several references to the period after the Exodus and this is the section of the scripture Jesus' draws his quotes from.

Matthew 4:1

Rather Gundry supports the popular view that the reference to the wilderness is an allusion to the Israelites after the Exodus and specifically to Moses.

Matthew 4:2

Another important parallel is with the entire nation of Israel that spent forty years in the desert without much food after the Exodus.


Heavy Mental

The album is resplendent with references to Judeo-Christian-Islamic mythology and theology, drawing parallels to the condition of Black people in the United States to that of the Jewish people during Exodus.

Paschal candle

The tall white candle in many ways signifies the Divine pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night that lead the Israelites in their Exodus from slavery in Egypt.

Soncino Press

They accept the Bible as Divine and the Biblical history of the Exodus from Egypt and the giving of the Torah to Moses at Mount Sinai as true, and have been widely regarded as Orthodox.

Zvi Malnovitzer

In this particular work, he alluded to a modern-day exile – a sequel to the Exodus from Egypt, the Babylonian exile, or expulsion from Spain - by portraying an uprooted Jewish settlement from hills of Samaria.


see also

Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright

Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright is a 2010 action film starring Aidan Quinn.

Aviva Cantor

It is a gender- and generation-inclusive Haggadah in non-sexist English containing all the memorable traditional elements of the seder plus poetry and prose about the Exodus, Israel, the Soviet Jewry movement, struggles for justice, the Holocaust and Resistance, and the American union movement.

Beeroth

Be'eroth Bene-Jaakan, also known as Be'eroth, a site mentioned in the biblical story of the Exodus

Dathan

After the Exodus, he leads the Israelites in their worship of the golden calf, and is one of those swallowed up in the crevice that opens up when Moses (Charlton Heston) smashes the tablets of the Ten Commandments in a rage, after discovering the Israelites' idolatry.

Dibutyl phthalate

With the exodus of all domestic producers the nearest supply option for DBP for U.S. customers is Miami Chemical, a company in Plantation, Florida which imports material from manufacturing partners located in South America.

Dizahab

Laban is the land of Laban or Aram in the extreme north of the Seir and Hazeroth is a station of the Exodus between Elat and Kadesh Barnea.

Donovan Courville

Courville lowered the era of the Hyksos to a period after the Exodus and, like Velikovsky and David Rohl, identified them with the biblical Amalekites.

Erotic Heritage Museum

The Exodus Trust also owns and manages the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, California, offering degrees related to human sexuality and sexual health.

Frederick J. Schlink

This act was one that started the exodus of employees to the new Consumers Union, and spelled the end to Consumers Research.

Great Machine

Following the exodus, the inhabiting species eventually died off or left Epsilon III, leaving only one member of their race, a being named Varn (Curt Lowens), to function as the custodian of the Great Machine.

History of Hyderabad, Sindh

Towards the end of the 1970s and the beginning of 1980s, Karachi was a haven for Muslim refugees who fled anti-Muslim violence in India, known merely as Muhajirs, the word having descent from Hijrat, the exodus of early Muslims along with the prophet from Mecca to Medina to escape persecution due to religious beliefs.

La sangre y la semilla

Written by Augusto Roa Bastos, based on a story by Mario Halley Mora, it is a historical film set in 1870 at the end of the Paraguayan War, during the exodus of the last followers of President Francisco Solano López to Cerro Cora (1870).

Michael Checkland

It has been claimed that the exodus to Channel 4 in the early 1990s of dramatists like Dennis Potter and Alan Bleasdale, who had both been responsible for series which caused outrage among Conservatives during the Milne era, had much to do with the relative lack of risk-taking at the BBC under Checkland and his successor John Birt, who was deputy director-general throughout Checkland's reign.

Mount Sin Bishar

Mount Sin Bishar is a mountain located in west-central Sinai, it was proposed to be the biblical Mount Sinai by Menashe Har-El, a biblical geographer at Tel Aviv University, in his book The Sinai Journeys: The Route of the Exodus.

Nitzana

Nitzanei Sinai, a communal settlement also known as Kadesh Barne'a after the Exodus station of that name.

Oral Torah

Belief that the Oral Torah was transmitted orally from God to Moses on Mount Sinai during the Exodus from Egypt is a fundamental tenet of faith of Orthodox and Haredi Judaism, and was recognized as one of the Thirteen Principles of Faith by Maimonides.

Sea Trek

Sea Trek 2001, a 2001 project to commemorate the exodus of Mormon pioneers from Europe during the 19th century

Shimon Sholom Kalish

He was a major driving force behind the exodus of thousands of young men in Mir, Kletsk, Radin, Novhardok, and other yeshivas, via Russia and Japan to Shanghai at the outbreak of World War II.