These weekly and annual feasts and celebrations are rich, sensorial, and experiential practices that are to be God's means of grace to nurture the children so that they do not forget God and live in reverence of him who is involved in their lives (
Exod. 16:23-29; 20:8-11; 23:19; 34:26; Lev.
Known in Hebrew as Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks), it originated as the wheat harvest festival (see
Exod. 34:22), occurring seven weeks after the barley harvest festival, Pesach (Passover).
The biblical authors employ the same approach, for both Bezalel (fashioner of the Tabernacle) and Hiram (architect of the Temple) are endowed with [phrase omitted] 'wisdom', [phrase omitted] 'understanding', and [phrase omitted] 'knowledge' relevant to artisanry and craftsmanship (see
Exod. 31:3, 35:13, for the former; 1 Kings 7:14 for the latter).
In the time of Moses, God took the lives of Egyptians' first-born sons ( 11) and destroyed the Egyptian army in the Red Sea (
Exod. 14).
It also conjures up Heinlein's own allusion to the passage from Exodus in which Moses gives the name Gershom (meaning "foreigner") to the son born to him in the land of the Midians, declaring: "I have been a stranger in a strange land" (
Exod. 2.22).
He concentrates on four biblical musical episodes and genres: the Song of the Sea (
Exod. 15), King Saul and David's lyre (1 Sam.
(
Exod. 2:23-25) (28) Chapter 3 then narrates God's first intercession with Moses.
In Wittgenstein's intellectual safari, he tried to compensate the unpopulated and uncultivated emptiness of what he felt to be a desert with a good place to think in isolation-a landscape of "milk and honey" (
Exod. 3:17).
Her manifestations of perceptibility include motive clauses and the use of emotive language (such as the aswn of
Exod. 21:22-23), both found already in the Book of the Covenant but greatly magnified in Deuteronomy (e.g., in the use of toevah, p.
If we find that the Basterds live by the Biblical preaching of "an eye for an eye" (
Exod. 21:23-27) as retributive justice, then their actions, no matter how horrific, still may not have been enough to equal the Nazi atrocities.
Indeed, God's care for the alien and the oppressed becomes a lesson to the Israelites later, as they are called to live and love as faithful improvisers of God's patient love (
Exod. 22:21).