“Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight rom his master and come to you: let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him.” These are the words of the great Moses of the Old Testament. Though his leadership and wisdom is illustrated in this quote, Moses was also a man of immense influence and significance, and his legacy still goes on. Moses’s life was of breathtaking action, and his accomplishments have proven to be important to the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths, as well as those with other or no religions. Moses came into this world sometime from 1391-1392 BCE. Him and his siblings Aaron and Miriam were the children of Levite parents. When her mother could no longer hide him from the …show more content…
First, Moses casted his staff on the Nile and turned it into blood, preventing the Egyptians from drinking it. Next, God sent a wave of frogs to cause chaos in the house of the Pharaoh. These plagues were followed by plagues of gnats, flies, death of livestock, boils, hail, locusts, and even darkness for three days. The Pharaoh remained hard-hearted, forcing God to unleash the final, most brutal plague; the plague on the firstborn. In the middle of the night, all the firstborn Egyptian children would die including the child of the Pharaoh himself. Moses warned the Pharaoh, who did not listen. God told Moses that the houses who put the blood of a lamb on their door will be passed over by God on the night of the killing. They would then eat the lamb with unleavened bread. Seeing his own son die as well as another person in almost every other house in Egypt die, the Pharaoh finally gave in to Moses’ begging and let the Israelites go. Not only did this event allow the Israelites to leave Egypt, it gave them a tradition called “Passover” in which Jews eat a lamb with unleavened bread to remember the night God would “pass over” their houses in the plague of the