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Diana Kim

Miss Akers

Honors English 9

10/20/2017

Moses is a biblical figure who leads the Hebrews out of Egypt and sends them on the

path to the Promised Land. He atones for his peoples sins by writing the Ten Commandments

on two tablets stones, because the Hebrews created a golden calf to worship instead of God.

Moses ensures the belief in God into the Hebrews by assisting them to escape the Egyptians.

Although Moses didnt personally escort the Hebrews to the Promised Land since he died,

Moses started the mission to ensure faith in God.

When Moses and the Hebrews arrived at Sinai, God called out to Moses after the

Hebrews decided to camp in the wilderness. God conversed through Moses and presented the

Ten Commandments. One day, Moses went up the mountain to talk to God. The Hebrew people

grew to be impatient with Moses and thought that they were left to die in the wilderness alone.

And the whole congregation of the people of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the

wilderness, and said to them, Would that we when we sat by the fleshpots and ate bread to the

full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

Moses had to endure the doubt the Hebrews gave him about God. Even in the beginning, Moses

had doubted his own ability to assist the Hebrews to escape Egypt. Moses does not doubt his

faith in God but suffers the most unfortunate type of doubt; doubting himself. Moses does not

have faith in himself to succeed aiding the Hebrews to the Promised Land.

Moses also struggled through pain when Hebrews begin to be suspicious of Moses. They become

suspicious of him when he is delayed to come down from the mountain (135). Aaron gathers
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the suspicious Hebrews and orders them to gather up all of the gold. He creates a golden calf to

worship. These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt! When

Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation and said, Tomorrow

shall be a feast to the Lord. And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt

offerings (135). The Hebrews commenced a grand feast and offered burnt offerings upon the

golden calf. God notices the Hebrews actions and informs Moses that the Hebrews had been

unfaithful. And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses

anger burned hot, and he threw the tables out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the

mountain. This reveals how betrayed Moses feels when he witnesses the Hebrews doubting his

word about God. Moses is portrayed to be outraged by the Hebrews actions but Moses also feels

contempt because of the disrespect the Hebrews showed him and the Lord.

To pay for the Hebrews sins, God told Moses to write down the Ten Commandments.

So, Moses stayed up in Mountain Sinai carving the Ten Commandments on two stones And he

was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And he

wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments (137). This reveals

Moses loyalty to God and how much he suffered to atone for the Hebrews. Moses repents for

his people by suffering for forty days without food or water. He is starved because of the

Hebrews insecure behavior. By repenting of their sins, the Hebrews faith was restored in God.

Because Moses repented, the Ten Commandments were taken seriously by the Hebrews and the

faith in God did not waver.

In conclusion, Moses had to endure the pain of his peoples faith-uncertainty and had to

bear undernourished conditions for the Hebrew people. Moses bears the food-deprived

conditions to repent for his peoples mistakes and managed to set the belief in God. Moses did
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this to aide the Hebrew people out of the hands of the malicious Egyptians and helped secure the

faith and loyalty in God.