Answers about Moses

Which man is mentioned most often in the Bible? Jesus, Moses, Abraham or David?

Jesus or Jesus Christ is mentioned approximately 968 times.  Christ (without Jesus) is mentioned an additional 286 times (approx).  Making a total of  approximately 1254 times Moses is mentioned 852 times. Abraham is mentioned 250 times and Abram 62 times making a total of  312 times. David is mentioned 1141 times. So Jesus/Jesus Christ/Christ occurs [...]

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What is the significance of Moses raising the rod?

I assume you are referring to Exodus 17:9: So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.” The events leading up to this event: The people of Israel under Moses, [...]

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How many years passed between Abraham and Moses?

There was approximately 420 years between their births. Abraham was born in about 1946 BC and died in about 1771 BC. Moses was born in about 1526 BC and died in about 1406 BC. Consequently, there was about 245 years between the death of Abraham and the birth of Moses. See “The Times: a chronology [...]

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Where was Moses when God called him and how did God talk to Moses?

The first recorded time that God spoke to Moses is described in Exodus 3:1-6. Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 And the angel of the Lord [...]

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What was the name of the mountain from which Moses looked out onto the promised land?

Deuteronomy 34:1-6 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan, all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea,  the Negeb, [...]

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How old was Moses when God called him?

Acts 7:23 says Moses was forty years old when he left Egypt and Acts 7:30 says that it was forty years later that the angel spoke to Moses through the burning bush. So Moses would have been eighty when God called him.

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Has Moses entered the kingdom of God, or is he at the gate looking in?

Moses has not entered the kingdom of God. He died and will remain dead until the resurrection. Moses is mentioned in Hebrews 11:23-24 in the list of faithful people. At the end of that chapter, we are told And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had [...]

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What happened to the bronze snake Moses used to protect the Israelites?

When the people of Israel were being bitten by a plague of snakes, God told Moses to make a bronze snake as an antidote: The LORD said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.”  So Moses made a bronze snake [...]

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Who were Jethro’s ancestors?

Jethro was the “priest of Midian” and the father-in-law of Moses (Exodus 3:1; 4:18). He was also called “Reuel” (Exodus 2:18) and is described as a Midianite in Numbers 10:29. The original Midianites were probably descendants of Midian, one of Abraham’s sons by Keturah (Genesis 25:1-4). The land where they lived then became known as [...]

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What was Moses’ mother’s name?

According to Exodus 6:20, it was Jochebed (who was also his great aunt): Amram took as his wife Jochebed his father’s sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses.

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