https://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=Moses&feed=atom&action=historyMoses - Revision history2024-03-28T23:45:35ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.30.0https://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=Moses&diff=121050&oldid=prevAngellight 888: revert to original article;2015-02-01T01:43:15Z<p>revert to original article;</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* '''1571 BC''' -- According to Dr. Floyd Nolen Jones, in: ''[http://books.google.ca/books?id=ZkBasQYRy4sC&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=moses+birth+1689bc&source=bl&ots=VuQoAWyKnZ&sig=0gcLQ5MW7LyH2RhGaUf5clvMyGw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-rPST5qRFaSm6gHW-5iAAw&ved=0CFUQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=moses%20birth%201689bc&f=false The Chronology of the Old Testament]'' (1993).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* '''1571 BC''' -- According to Dr. Floyd Nolen Jones, in: ''[http://books.google.ca/books?id=ZkBasQYRy4sC&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=moses+birth+1689bc&source=bl&ots=VuQoAWyKnZ&sig=0gcLQ5MW7LyH2RhGaUf5clvMyGw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-rPST5qRFaSm6gHW-5iAAw&ved=0CFUQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=moses%20birth%201689bc&f=false The Chronology of the Old Testament]'' (1993).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For forty years, Moses lived at the court of the Pharaoh (his Egyptian training); for the next forty years, he lived as a shepherd in [[Apophatic theology|contemplation]] of [[God]] and the world (his exile in Arabia); and for his remaining forty years, he led the people through the wilderness to the [[w:Promised Land|Promised Land]] (his government of the Israelite nation). He beheld the Promised Land, but was not allowed to enter it, for he had once [[Sin|sinned]] against God ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2020:12&version=NKJV Numbers 20:12]). Thus Moses reposed at the age of 120.<ref name=PROLOGUE>[[Nikolai Velimirovic]]. ''[[Prologue from Ohrid|Prologue from Ohrid: Lives of Saints, Hymns, Reflections and Homilies for Every Day of the Year]].''  1928.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For forty years, Moses lived at the court of the Pharaoh (his Egyptian training); for the next forty years, he lived as a shepherd in [[Apophatic theology|contemplation]] of [[God]] and the world (his exile in Arabia); and for his remaining forty years, he led the people through the wilderness to the [[w:Promised Land|Promised Land]] (his government of the Israelite nation). He beheld the Promised Land, but was not allowed to enter it, for he had once [[Sin|sinned]] against God ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2020:12&version=NKJV Numbers 20:12]). Thus Moses reposed at the age of 120.<ref name=PROLOGUE>[[Nikolai Velimirovic]]. ''[[Prologue from Ohrid|Prologue from Ohrid: Lives of Saints, Hymns, Reflections and Homilies for Every Day of the Year]].''  1928.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As a [[Wonderworker|miracle-worker]], he was a prefiguration of [[Christ]], according to St. [[Basil the Great]],<ref name=PROLOGUE/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">> and is looked upon as a precursor to [[Christ]] ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2010:1-4&version=NKJV 1 Corinthians 10:1-4]) and as a witness to him ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201:45&version=NKJV John 1:45]) in the seamless, unified history of God's relationship to and interaction with humanity throughout the ages.<ref name=WHOSWHO>''"Moses".'' In: Who's Who in the Bible: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary. Reader's Digest Association, 1994. pp.300-311.</ref> In Saint [[Augustine of Hippo|Augustine]]'s homily on Psalm 90, which is entitled ''"The prayer of Moses the man of God,"'' he writes that Moses was the ''"Minister of the [[Old Testament|Old]], and the Prophet of the [[New Testament]]"''.<ref>[[Augustine of Hippo]]. ''St Augustine Homily on the Psalms. Psalm XC. 1''.</ref</del>><ref group="note">Saint [[Basil the Great]] comments on Moses' prayer in Deuteronomy 6:4 that the Lord is one (''"Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one."'' - [[w:Shema Yisrael|Shema Yisrael]]), stating that Moses confirms the Godhead of the Son and the lesson of the Gospels, which tell of God and God:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As a [[Wonderworker|miracle-worker]], he was a prefiguration of [[Christ]], according to St. [[Basil the Great]],<ref name=PROLOGUE/><ref group="note">Saint [[Basil the Great]] comments on Moses' prayer in Deuteronomy 6:4 that the Lord is one (''"Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one."'' - [[w:Shema Yisrael|Shema Yisrael]]), stating that Moses confirms the Godhead of the Son and the lesson of the Gospels, which tell of God and God:</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:"...For the Gospels tell us that Moses taught the truth when he proclaimed that God is One; and Moses by his proclamation of One God confirms the lesson of the Gospels, which tell of God and God. Thus we do not contradict our authorities, but base our teaching upon them, proving that the revelation to Israel of the unity of God gives no sanction to the refusal of Divinity to the Son of God; since he who is our authority for asserting that there is One God is our authority also for confessing the Godhead of His Son."  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:"...For the Gospels tell us that Moses taught the truth when he proclaimed that God is One; and Moses by his proclamation of One God confirms the lesson of the Gospels, which tell of God and God. Thus we do not contradict our authorities, but base our teaching upon them, proving that the revelation to Israel of the unity of God gives no sanction to the refusal of Divinity to the Son of God; since he who is our authority for asserting that there is One God is our authority also for confessing the Godhead of His Son."  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::([[Basil the Great]]. ''St Basil the Great on the Trinity. Book V, 1.'')</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::([[Basil the Great]]. ''St Basil the Great on the Trinity. Book V, 1.'')</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The ''Orthodox Study Bible'' has the following commentary on this as well:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The ''Orthodox Study Bible'' has the following commentary on this as well:</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:"By Moses saying 'one Lord', we understand the simple, blessed and incomprehensible essence of God" (AthanG). Moses is not saying the one Lord is one solitary person (HilryP). Rather, he is saying He is one undivided essence or nature. For person and nature are not the same thing (JohnDm). The divine nature exists undividedly in three distinct Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Son is begotten before all time and ages from the essence of the Father, but His begetting does not divide the Father's essence. The Holy Spirit proceeds before all time and ages from the Father, but His procession does not divide the Father's essence. The Persons are distinct or different, but the essence is one and undivided. Therefore, we believe in the Holy Trinity, our one God and Lord.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:"By Moses saying 'one Lord', we understand the simple, blessed and incomprehensible essence of God" (AthanG). Moses is not saying the one Lord is one solitary person (HilryP). Rather, he is saying He is one undivided essence or nature. For person and nature are not the same thing (JohnDm). The divine nature exists undividedly in three distinct Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Son is begotten before all time and ages from the essence of the Father, but His begetting does not divide the Father's essence. The Holy Spirit proceeds before all time and ages from the Father, but His procession does not divide the Father's essence. The Persons are distinct or different, but the essence is one and undivided. Therefore, we believe in the Holy Trinity, our one God and Lord.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::(''The [[Orthodox Study Bible]].'' St. Athanasius Academy of Orthodox Theology. Elk Grove, California, 2008. p.220.)</ref> Moses' influence continues to be felt in the religious life, moral concerns, and social ethics of civilization today.<ref name="BRITTANICA"/>  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::(''The [[Orthodox Study Bible]].'' St. Athanasius Academy of Orthodox Theology. Elk Grove, California, 2008. p.220.)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></ref> and is looked upon as a precursor to [[Christ]] ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2010:1-4&version=NKJV 1 Corinthians 10:1-4]) and as a witness to him ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201:45&version=NKJV John 1:45]) in the seamless, unified history of God's relationship to and interaction with humanity throughout the ages.<ref name=WHOSWHO>''"Moses".'' In: Who's Who in the Bible: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary. Reader's Digest Association, 1994. pp.300-311.</ref> In Saint [[Augustine of Hippo|Augustine]]'s homily on Psalm 90, which is entitled ''"The prayer of Moses the man of God,"'' he writes that Moses was the ''"Minister of the [[Old Testament|Old]], and the Prophet of the [[New Testament]]"''.<ref>[[Augustine of Hippo]]. ''St Augustine Homily on the Psalms. Psalm XC. 1''.</ins></ref> Moses' influence continues to be felt in the religious life, moral concerns, and social ethics of civilization today.<ref name="BRITTANICA"/>  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[Orthodox Church]] commemorates his [[feast day|sacred memory]] annually on [[September 4]]/17,<ref name=SYNAX>Great [[Synaxarium|Synaxaristes]]: {{el icon}} ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/552/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Προφήτης Μωϋσῆς].'' 4 Σεπτεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.</ref><ref name=OCA-LIFE>''[http://oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=1&FSID=102490 Holy Prophet and God-seer Moses - Life].'' OCA - Feasts and Saints.</ref> the day that Moses saw the [[w:Promised Land|Land of Promise]],<ref>"September 4: The Holy God-seer Moses the Prophet and Aaron His Brother". In: ''The Menaion: Volume 1, The Month of September.'' Transl. from the Greek by the [[Holy Transfiguration Monastery (Brookline, Massachusetts)|Holy Transfiguration Monastery]]. Boston, Massachusetts, 2005. pp.67.</ref> as well as on the [[Sunday of the Forefathers]].<ref>Fr. Andrew Anglorus. ''[http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/sermhff.htm THE SUNDAY OF THE HOLY FOREFATHERS].'' St John's Orthodox Church, Colchester, Essex, England.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[Orthodox Church]] commemorates his [[feast day|sacred memory]] annually on [[September 4]]/17,<ref name=SYNAX>Great [[Synaxarium|Synaxaristes]]: {{el icon}} ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/552/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Προφήτης Μωϋσῆς].'' 4 Σεπτεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.</ref><ref name=OCA-LIFE>''[http://oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=1&FSID=102490 Holy Prophet and God-seer Moses - Life].'' OCA - Feasts and Saints.</ref> the day that Moses saw the [[w:Promised Land|Land of Promise]],<ref>"September 4: The Holy God-seer Moses the Prophet and Aaron His Brother". In: ''The Menaion: Volume 1, The Month of September.'' Transl. from the Greek by the [[Holy Transfiguration Monastery (Brookline, Massachusetts)|Holy Transfiguration Monastery]]. Boston, Massachusetts, 2005. pp.67.</ref> as well as on the [[Sunday of the Forefathers]].<ref>Fr. Andrew Anglorus. ''[http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/sermhff.htm THE SUNDAY OF THE HOLY FOREFATHERS].'' St John's Orthodox Church, Colchester, Essex, England.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For forty years, Moses lived at the court of the Pharaoh (his Egyptian training); for the next forty years, he lived as a shepherd in [[Apophatic theology|contemplation]] of [[God]] and the world (his exile in Arabia); and for his remaining forty years, he led the people through the wilderness to the [[w:Promised Land|Promised Land]] (his government of the Israelite nation). He beheld the Promised Land, but was not allowed to enter it, for he had once [[Sin|sinned]] against God ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2020:12&version=NKJV Numbers 20:12]). Thus Moses reposed at the age of 120.<ref name=PROLOGUE>[[Nikolai Velimirovic]]. ''[[Prologue from Ohrid|Prologue from Ohrid: Lives of Saints, Hymns, Reflections and Homilies for Every Day of the Year]].''  1928.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For forty years, Moses lived at the court of the Pharaoh (his Egyptian training); for the next forty years, he lived as a shepherd in [[Apophatic theology|contemplation]] of [[God]] and the world (his exile in Arabia); and for his remaining forty years, he led the people through the wilderness to the [[w:Promised Land|Promised Land]] (his government of the Israelite nation). He beheld the Promised Land, but was not allowed to enter it, for he had once [[Sin|sinned]] against God ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2020:12&version=NKJV Numbers 20:12]). Thus Moses reposed at the age of 120.<ref name=PROLOGUE>[[Nikolai Velimirovic]]. ''[[Prologue from Ohrid|Prologue from Ohrid: Lives of Saints, Hymns, Reflections and Homilies for Every Day of the Year]].''  1928.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As a [[Wonderworker|miracle-worker]], he was a prefiguration of [[Christ]], according to St. [[Basil the Great]],<ref name=PROLOGUE/> and is looked upon as a precursor to [[Christ]] ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2010:1-4&version=NKJV 1 Corinthians 10:1-4]) and as a witness to him ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201:45&version=NKJV John 1:45]) in the seamless, unified history of God's relationship to and interaction with humanity throughout the ages.<ref name=WHOSWHO>''"Moses".'' In: Who's Who in the Bible: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary. Reader's Digest Association, 1994. pp.300-311.</ref> In Saint [[Augustine of Hippo|Augustine]]'s homily on Psalm 90, which is entitled ''"The prayer of Moses the man of God,"'' he writes that Moses was the ''"Minister of the [[Old Testament|Old]], and the Prophet of the [[New Testament]]"''.<ref>[[Augustine of Hippo]]. ''St Augustine Homily on the Psalms. Psalm XC. 1''.</ref> Moses' influence continues to be felt in the religious life, moral concerns, and social ethics of civilization today.<ref name="BRITTANICA"/>  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As a [[Wonderworker|miracle-worker]], he was a prefiguration of [[Christ]], according to St. [[Basil the Great]],<ref name=PROLOGUE/> and is looked upon as a precursor to [[Christ]] ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2010:1-4&version=NKJV 1 Corinthians 10:1-4]) and as a witness to him ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201:45&version=NKJV John 1:45]) in the seamless, unified history of God's relationship to and interaction with humanity throughout the ages.<ref name=WHOSWHO>''"Moses".'' In: Who's Who in the Bible: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary. Reader's Digest Association, 1994. pp.300-311.</ref> In Saint [[Augustine of Hippo|Augustine]]'s homily on Psalm 90, which is entitled ''"The prayer of Moses the man of God,"'' he writes that Moses was the ''"Minister of the [[Old Testament|Old]], and the Prophet of the [[New Testament]]"''.<ref>[[Augustine of Hippo]]. ''St Augustine Homily on the Psalms. Psalm XC. 1''.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></ref><ref group="note">Saint [[Basil the Great]] comments on Moses' prayer in Deuteronomy 6:4 that the Lord is one (''"Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one."'' - [[w:Shema Yisrael|Shema Yisrael]]), stating that Moses confirms the Godhead of the Son and the lesson of the Gospels, which tell of God and God:</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">:"...For the Gospels tell us that Moses taught the truth when he proclaimed that God is One; and Moses by his proclamation of One God confirms the lesson of the Gospels, which tell of God and God. Thus we do not contradict our authorities, but base our teaching upon them, proving that the revelation to Israel of the unity of God gives no sanction to the refusal of Divinity to the Son of God; since he who is our authority for asserting that there is One God is our authority also for confessing the Godhead of His Son." </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">::([[Basil the Great]]. ''St Basil the Great on the Trinity. Book V, 1.'')</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The ''Orthodox Study Bible'' has the following commentary on this as well:</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">:"By Moses saying 'one Lord', we understand the simple, blessed and incomprehensible essence of God" (AthanG). Moses is not saying the one Lord is one solitary person (HilryP). Rather, he is saying He is one undivided essence or nature. For person and nature are not the same thing (JohnDm). The divine nature exists undividedly in three distinct Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Son is begotten before all time and ages from the essence of the Father, but His begetting does not divide the Father's essence. The Holy Spirit proceeds before all time and ages from the Father, but His procession does not divide the Father's essence. The Persons are distinct or different, but the essence is one and undivided. Therefore, we believe in the Holy Trinity, our one God and Lord. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[Orthodox Church]] commemorates his [[feast day|sacred memory]] annually on [[September 4]]/17,<ref name=SYNAX>Great [[Synaxarium|Synaxaristes]]: {{el icon}} ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/552/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Προφήτης Μωϋσῆς].'' 4 Σεπτεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.</ref><ref name=OCA-LIFE>''[http://oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=1&FSID=102490 Holy Prophet and God-seer Moses - Life].'' OCA - Feasts and Saints.</ref> the day that Moses saw the [[w:Promised Land|Land of Promise]],<ref>"September 4: The Holy God-seer Moses the Prophet and Aaron His Brother". In: ''The Menaion: Volume 1, The Month of September.'' Transl. from the Greek by the [[Holy Transfiguration Monastery (Brookline, Massachusetts)|Holy Transfiguration Monastery]]. Boston, Massachusetts, 2005. pp.67.</ref> as well as on the [[Sunday of the Forefathers]].<ref>Fr. Andrew Anglorus. ''[http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/sermhff.htm THE SUNDAY OF THE HOLY FOREFATHERS].'' St John's Orthodox Church, Colchester, Essex, England.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[Orthodox Church]] commemorates his [[feast day|sacred memory]] annually on [[September 4]]/17,<ref name=SYNAX>Great [[Synaxarium|Synaxaristes]]: {{el icon}} ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/552/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Προφήτης Μωϋσῆς].'' 4 Σεπτεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.</ref><ref name=OCA-LIFE>''[http://oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=1&FSID=102490 Holy Prophet and God-seer Moses - Life].'' OCA - Feasts and Saints.</ref> the day that Moses saw the [[w:Promised Land|Land of Promise]],<ref>"September 4: The Holy God-seer Moses the Prophet and Aaron His Brother". In: ''The Menaion: Volume 1, The Month of September.'' Transl. from the Greek by the [[Holy Transfiguration Monastery (Brookline, Massachusetts)|Holy Transfiguration Monastery]]. Boston, Massachusetts, 2005. pp.67.</ref> as well as on the [[Sunday of the Forefathers]].<ref>Fr. Andrew Anglorus. ''[http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/sermhff.htm THE SUNDAY OF THE HOLY FOREFATHERS].'' St John's Orthodox Church, Colchester, Essex, England.</ref></div></td></tr>
</table>Angellight 888https://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=Moses&diff=120938&oldid=prevAngellight 888 at 14:39, January 10, 20152015-01-10T14:39:08Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For forty years, Moses lived at the court of the Pharaoh (his Egyptian training); for the next forty years, he lived as a shepherd in [[Apophatic theology|contemplation]] of [[God]] and the world (his exile in Arabia); and for his remaining forty years, he led the people through the wilderness to the [[w:Promised Land|Promised Land]] (his government of the Israelite nation). He beheld the Promised Land, but was not allowed to enter it, for he had once [[Sin|sinned]] against God ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2020:12&version=NKJV Numbers 20:12]). Thus Moses reposed at the age of 120.<ref name=PROLOGUE>[[Nikolai Velimirovic]]. ''[[Prologue from Ohrid|Prologue from Ohrid: Lives of Saints, Hymns, Reflections and Homilies for Every Day of the Year]].''  1928.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For forty years, Moses lived at the court of the Pharaoh (his Egyptian training); for the next forty years, he lived as a shepherd in [[Apophatic theology|contemplation]] of [[God]] and the world (his exile in Arabia); and for his remaining forty years, he led the people through the wilderness to the [[w:Promised Land|Promised Land]] (his government of the Israelite nation). He beheld the Promised Land, but was not allowed to enter it, for he had once [[Sin|sinned]] against God ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2020:12&version=NKJV Numbers 20:12]). Thus Moses reposed at the age of 120.<ref name=PROLOGUE>[[Nikolai Velimirovic]]. ''[[Prologue from Ohrid|Prologue from Ohrid: Lives of Saints, Hymns, Reflections and Homilies for Every Day of the Year]].''  1928.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As a [[Wonderworker|miracle-worker]], he was a prefiguration of [[Christ]], according to St. [[Basil the Great]],<ref name=PROLOGUE/> and is looked upon as a precursor to [[Christ]] ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2010:1-4&version=NKJV 1 Corinthians 10:1-4]) and as a witness to him ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201:45&version=NKJV John 1:45]) in the seamless, unified history of God's relationship to and interaction with humanity throughout the ages.<ref name=WHOSWHO>''"Moses".'' In: Who's Who in the Bible: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary. Reader's Digest Association, 1994. pp.300-311.</ref> Moses' influence continues to be felt in the religious life, moral concerns, and social ethics of civilization today.<ref name="BRITTANICA"/>  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As a [[Wonderworker|miracle-worker]], he was a prefiguration of [[Christ]], according to St. [[Basil the Great]],<ref name=PROLOGUE/> and is looked upon as a precursor to [[Christ]] ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2010:1-4&version=NKJV 1 Corinthians 10:1-4]) and as a witness to him ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201:45&version=NKJV John 1:45]) in the seamless, unified history of God's relationship to and interaction with humanity throughout the ages.<ref name=WHOSWHO>''"Moses".'' In: Who's Who in the Bible: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary. Reader's Digest Association, 1994. pp.300-311<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</ref> In Saint [[Augustine of Hippo|Augustine]]'s homily on Psalm 90, which is entitled ''"The prayer of Moses the man of God,"'' he writes that Moses was the ''"Minister of the [[Old Testament|Old]], and the Prophet of the [[New Testament]]"''.<ref>[[Augustine of Hippo]]. ''St Augustine Homily on the Psalms. Psalm XC. 1''</ins>.</ref> Moses' influence continues to be felt in the religious life, moral concerns, and social ethics of civilization today.<ref name="BRITTANICA"/>  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[Orthodox Church]] commemorates his [[feast day|sacred memory]] annually on [[September 4]]/17,<ref name=SYNAX>Great [[Synaxarium|Synaxaristes]]: {{el icon}} ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/552/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Προφήτης Μωϋσῆς].'' 4 Σεπτεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.</ref><ref name=OCA-LIFE>''[http://oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=1&FSID=102490 Holy Prophet and God-seer Moses - Life].'' OCA - Feasts and Saints.</ref> the day that Moses saw the [[w:Promised Land|Land of Promise]],<ref>"September 4: The Holy God-seer Moses the Prophet and Aaron His Brother". In: ''The Menaion: Volume 1, The Month of September.'' Transl. from the Greek by the [[Holy Transfiguration Monastery (Brookline, Massachusetts)|Holy Transfiguration Monastery]]. Boston, Massachusetts, 2005. pp.67.</ref> as well as on the [[Sunday of the Forefathers]].<ref>Fr. Andrew Anglorus. ''[http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/sermhff.htm THE SUNDAY OF THE HOLY FOREFATHERS].'' St John's Orthodox Church, Colchester, Essex, England.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[Orthodox Church]] commemorates his [[feast day|sacred memory]] annually on [[September 4]]/17,<ref name=SYNAX>Great [[Synaxarium|Synaxaristes]]: {{el icon}} ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/552/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Προφήτης Μωϋσῆς].'' 4 Σεπτεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.</ref><ref name=OCA-LIFE>''[http://oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=1&FSID=102490 Holy Prophet and God-seer Moses - Life].'' OCA - Feasts and Saints.</ref> the day that Moses saw the [[w:Promised Land|Land of Promise]],<ref>"September 4: The Holy God-seer Moses the Prophet and Aaron His Brother". In: ''The Menaion: Volume 1, The Month of September.'' Transl. from the Greek by the [[Holy Transfiguration Monastery (Brookline, Massachusetts)|Holy Transfiguration Monastery]]. Boston, Massachusetts, 2005. pp.67.</ref> as well as on the [[Sunday of the Forefathers]].<ref>Fr. Andrew Anglorus. ''[http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/sermhff.htm THE SUNDAY OF THE HOLY FOREFATHERS].'' St John's Orthodox Church, Colchester, Essex, England.</ref></div></td></tr>
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</table>Angellight 888https://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=Moses&diff=120936&oldid=prevAngellight 888: /* Wandering in the Wilderness for Forty Years */2015-01-10T13:59:26Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Wandering in the Wilderness for Forty Years</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When the old generation, including Mary, the prophet's sister, was no more, Moses inaugurated the onward march around Edom and Moab to the [[w:Wadi Mujib|Arnon]] (Wadi Mujib),<ref name=NEWADVENT/> from the area of Kadesh towards the Promised Land.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When the old generation, including Mary, the prophet's sister, was no more, Moses inaugurated the onward march around Edom and Moab to the [[w:Wadi Mujib|Arnon]] (Wadi Mujib),<ref name=NEWADVENT/> from the area of Kadesh towards the Promised Land.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Gustav Doré -- The Bronze Serpent.jpg|left|thumb|The Bronze Serpent of [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2021:8&version=NKJV Numbers 21:8].<br>(''Gustav Doré'', 19th c.)]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Gustav Doré -- The Bronze Serpent.jpg|left|thumb|The Bronze Serpent of [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2021:8&version=NKJV Numbers 21:8].<br>(''Gustav Doré'', 19th c.)]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>While the Israelites were making their journey around Edom, they complained about the ''manna'', upon which the Lord sent "fiery serpents" among the people, as a chastisement for renewed murmurings, and many of the people of Israel died. Moses then set up the brazen serpent and set it on a pole, "and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived" ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2021&version=NKJV Numbers 21]).<ref group="note">According to the Biblical Book of Kings this brass serpent remained in existence until the days of King Hezekiah, who destroyed it after persons began treating it as an idol, burning [[incense]] to it, and calling it [[w:Nehushtan|Nehushtan]] ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018:1-4;&version=NKJV 2 Kings 18:1-4]).</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>While the Israelites were making their journey around Edom, they complained about the ''manna'', upon which the Lord sent "fiery serpents" among the people, as a chastisement for renewed murmurings, and many of the people of Israel died. Moses then set up the brazen serpent and set it on a pole, "and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived" ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2021&version=NKJV Numbers 21]).<ref group="note">According to the Biblical Book of Kings this brass serpent remained in existence until the days of King Hezekiah, who destroyed it after persons began treating it as an idol, burning [[incense]] to it, and calling it [[w:Nehushtan|Nehushtan]] ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018:1-4;&version=NKJV 2 Kings 18:1-4]).</ref<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">> Saint [[Basil the Great]] in his ''Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith'' writes that this brazen serpent set up on a pole prefigures the precious [[Cross]]:</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"...The tree of life which was planted by God in Paradise pre-figured this precious Cross. '''For since death was by a tree, it was fitting that life and resurrection should be bestowed by a tree.''' Jacob, when He worshipped the top of Joseph's staff, was the first to image the Cross, and when he blessed his sons with crossed hands he made most clearly the sign of the cross. Likewise also did Moses' rod, when it smote the sea in the figure of the cross and saved Israel, while it overwhelmed Pharaoh in the depths; likewise also the hands stretched out crosswise and routing Amalek; and the bitter water made sweet by a tree, and the rock rent and pouring forth streams of water, and the rod that meant for Aaron the dignity of the high priesthood: and '''the serpent lifted in triumph on a tree as though it were dead''', the tree bringing salvation to those who in faith saw their enemy dead, just as Christ was nailed to the tree in the flesh of sin which yet knew no sin. The mighty Moses cried, You will see your life hanging on the tree before your eyes, and Isaiah likewise, I have spread out my hands all the day unto a faithless and rebellious people. But may we who worship this obtain a part in Christ the crucified. Amen."<ref>St. [[Basil the Great]]. ''An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. Book IV. Chapter IX, 27.''</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Thus after the lapse of thirty-eight years Moses led the people eastward. Having gained friendly permission to do so, they passed through the territory of Esau (where Aaron died, on [[w:Mount Hor|Mount Hor]]; [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2020:22-29&version=NKJV Numbers 20:22-29]), and then, by a similar arrangement, through the land of Moab.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Thus after the lapse of thirty-eight years Moses led the people eastward. Having gained friendly permission to do so, they passed through the territory of Esau (where Aaron died, on [[w:Mount Hor|Mount Hor]]; [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2020:22-29&version=NKJV Numbers 20:22-29]), and then, by a similar arrangement, through the land of Moab.  </div></td></tr>
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</table>Angellight 888https://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=Moses&diff=120935&oldid=prevAngellight 888: /* The Ark of the Covenant and the Tabernacle */2015-01-10T13:39:30Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">The Ark of the Covenant and the Tabernacle</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>According to the [[Exodus|Book of Exodus]], [[God]] instructed Moses on [[Mount Sinai]] during his 40-day stay upon the mountain within the thick cloud and darkness where God was (Exodus 19:20; 24:18) and he was shown the pattern for the [[Tabernacle (biblical)|Tabernacle]] and furnishings of the [[w:Ark of the Covenant|Ark of the Covenant]] to be made of [[w:Shittim Wood|shittim-wood]], to house the [[w:Tablets of Stone|Tablets of Stone]]. Moses instructed [[w:Bezalel|Bezalel]] and [[w:Oholiab|Oholiab]] to construct the Ark ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2031&version=NKJV Exodus 31]).<ref>Fr. Joseph Ponessa (S.S.D.) and Laurie Watson Manhardt (Ph.D.). ''[http://books.google.ca/books?id=1AgtbRbclcIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Moses and The Torah: Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy]''. Come and See: Catholic Bible Study. Emmaus Road Publishing, 2007. pp.85-86. ISBN 9781931018456</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>According to the [[Exodus|Book of Exodus]], [[God]] instructed Moses on [[Mount Sinai]] during his 40-day stay upon the mountain within the thick cloud and darkness where God was (Exodus 19:20; 24:18) and he was shown the pattern for the [[Tabernacle (biblical)|Tabernacle]] and furnishings of the [[w:Ark of the Covenant|Ark of the Covenant]] to be made of [[w:Shittim Wood|shittim-wood]], to house the [[w:Tablets of Stone|Tablets of Stone]]. Moses instructed [[w:Bezalel|Bezalel]] and [[w:Oholiab|Oholiab]] to construct the Ark ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2031&version=NKJV Exodus 31]).<ref>Fr. Joseph Ponessa (S.S.D.) and Laurie Watson Manhardt (Ph.D.). ''[http://books.google.ca/books?id=1AgtbRbclcIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Moses and The Torah: Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy]''. Come and See: Catholic Bible Study. Emmaus Road Publishing, 2007. pp.85-86. ISBN 9781931018456<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></ref> St [[Augustine of Hippo]] Augustine writes that "the Law in the Ark of the Testimony represents holiness in the Lord's body, by whose resurrection is promised to us the future rest; for our receiving of which, love is breathed into us by the Holy Spirit."<ref>St. [[Augustine of Hippo]]. ''St Augustine's Letters: Letter LIII, Chapter XVI, 30''.</ins></ref>  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As a result, the [[Tabernacle (biblical)|Tabernacle]] was constructed according to the last chapters of Exodus, the priestly law was ordained, the plan of encampment was arranged for both the Levites and the non-priestly tribes, and the Tabernacle was [[Consecration of a church|consecrated]].<ref name="JEWISH-ENCYC"/>   </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As a result, the [[Tabernacle (biblical)|Tabernacle]] was constructed according to the last chapters of Exodus, the priestly law was ordained, the plan of encampment was arranged for both the Levites and the non-priestly tribes, and the Tabernacle was [[Consecration of a church|consecrated]].<ref name="JEWISH-ENCYC"/>   </div></td></tr>
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