God In The Burning Bush In Night By Elie Wiesel

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By the time the reader gets to Exodus 3:1-3:17, they have already seen Moses get saved in the Nile river by the princess of Egypt, kill a Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew and flee Egypt, and finally get married. In this section of the text, Moses is confronted by God in the form of a burning bush. God asks Moses to go back to Egypt and save his people, the Israelites but Moses is hesitant. There are many different interpretations of this text that all have their own merits. Philo of Alexandria believed that the burning bush was in fact not God, Kugel interprets the God in the burning bush to be the "God of Old", and finally the Kaminsky and Lohr understand God to be "a personality who can be affected by humans" (Kaminsky, p.67).
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When Moses is asked by God to go and save his people in Egypt he comes up with a series of excuses in order to try and get God to pick another human to do this job. This makes sense because to the reader because Moses was born a Israelite but raised and Egyptian. He knows that the treachery that is happening in his birthplace is wrong because he killed an Egyptian to save an Israelite. The reader could assume that one of the main reasons he does not want to go back to Egypt is because they know who he is and want to kill him. But after reading from Jewish Study Bible's footnotes, Moses reluctance is similar to all of the other prophets who have been chosen by God. God states that he will be with them and says "That shall be your sign". The Jewish Study Bible states, "It is unclear whether the sign is God's presence with Moses, the fact He sent him, or the future return to Horeb and worship there" (p. 103). In my interpretation of the reading, the sign that God is with Moses is seen in the later chapters of Exodus when Moses performs the various miracles such as turning his rod into a snake and so on. In order to perform these miracles God had to be there in order to help Moses perform those miracles as Moses is only

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