I will give you payment.» The woman took the baby and fed him. (If this is not a trick, then what is a trick, the mother gets paid for feeding her own son. If the basket with the child was not exposed, the mother would feed her son for free).
10 And the child grew up, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he was with her instead of a son, and she called his name Moses, because, she said, I took him out of the water. (Pharaoh’s daughter actually became the guardian of a Jewish boy, the name goes back to the Hebrew verb «maschah» – «to pull out», «to pull out of the water», that is, it is formed from Hebrew words. An international group of scientists from Germany, Canada and the USA, led by Stefan Kreplin from the Institute of Prehistoric Geology of the University of Cologne, as a result of research, found out that the Sahara turned into the most extensive and hot desert of our planet about 2,700 years ago as a result of very slow climate evolution. Previously, it was believed that climate change was very abrupt and occurred in a relatively short period of time. According to research results, 6 thousand years ago the Sahara was green, trees grew there and there were many lakes. This huge area was also populated. The scientists managed to draw their conclusions based on the study of geological deposits raised from the depths of one of the largest reservoirs of the Sahel zone, Lake Yoa, located in northern Chad. The success of the scientific expedition was accompanied by a thorough study of these deposits, numerous geochemical analyses and the study of pollen of trees and plants before the onset of the desert, as well as the study of the remains of aquatic plant and animal microorganisms. This work of scientists from Germany, Canada and the USA on the restoration of the last 6 thousand years of the existence of the Sahara refutes the existing theory about the transformation of this part of Africa into a desert 5,500 years ago and the fact that the process of desertification took only a few centuries, thereby putting an end to the period of humid tropical climate. Lake Yoa, 26 meters deep, continues to be fed from underground sources in the same way as it was during the wet period of the Sahara, which began 15 thousand years ago. These sources are able to compensate for the 6-meter layer of water evaporating annually in the lake. The rock art of the Sahara is a series of prehistoric drawings carved or painted on natural rocks in the central part of the Sahara Desert. There are about 3,000 such monuments in total, from the Tibesti massif to the Akhaggar Mountains).
11 After a long time, when Moses was grown up, it happened that he went out to his brothers [the children of Israel] and saw their hard work; and he saw that an Egyptian was beating one of his brothers, a Jew. (Moses’ sympathy for the Jews).
12 When he looked here and there and saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. (The murder of an Egyptian).
13 And he went out the next day, and behold, two Jews were quarreling; and he said to the offending one, Why do you strike your neighbor? (Aliens are fighting).
14 And he said, Who made you a ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian? Moses was afraid and said, «It is true that they have found out about this matter. (They found out about the murder).
15 And Pharaoh heard of this matter, and wanted to kill Moses; but Moses fled from Pharaoh, and stayed in the land of Midian, and sat down by a well. (This is a territory in the south-east of the Sinai Peninsula, there is an opinion that the name Sinai comes from the name of the Babylonian moon god Sin).
16 The priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew [water] and filled the troughs to water their father’s sheep. (There lived a priest with 7 daughters).
17 And the shepherds came and drove them away. Then Moses arose and protected them, and watered their sheep. (Moses protects the priest’s sheep).
18 And they came to Raguel their father, and he said, Why have you come so soon today? (Daughters complain to their father).
19 They said, «An Egyptian protected us from the shepherds, and even drew water for us and watered the sheep.» (Moses looked like an Egyptian, most likely because of his clothes).
20 He said to his daughters, «Where is he?» why did you leave it? call him and let him eat bread. (The call to Moses, the use of bread as food, means agriculture is developing).
21 It pleased Moses to live with this man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses. (The marriage of Moses to Zipporah).
22 She bore a son, and [Moses] called his name Gershom, because, he said, I have become a stranger in a strange land. (The appearance of the son).
23 After a long time, the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel groaned from their work and cried out, and their cry from their work went up to God.
24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. (Warning that «higher powers» will «lead» the people of Israel).
25 And God saw the children of Israel, and God saw them. («The chosen people», in fact, is a description after the fact of future «miraculous» events).
Chapter 3
1 Moses tended the sheep of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. One day he led the flock far into the desert and came to the mountain of God, Horeb. (However, the father of the daughters was called Raguel (g.2, p.18), mountains often appear in the legends of various peoples as the abode of the gods or places where the gods descend from heaven to meet people. The explanation is as follows – people settled on the hills and mountains to protect themselves from attacks by other tribes, as well as to build settlements that are not flooded with water during floods. people escaped from floods on their peaks, developed irrigation systems (after the melting of ice and snow, streams and rivers flowed from the tops of the mountains, that is, natural irrigation systems were formed), subsequently the construction of pyramids meant mountains as a symbol of power, since the first civilizations were created on the tops of the mountains, it was better to observe the surrounding situation, possible enemies. The best higher places on the mountains were reserved for the nobility, priests).
2 And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a thorn bush. And he saw that the thorn bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not burning. (The Angel of the Lord is a priest, possibly dressed in wings (birds, along with other animals, were the oldest totems, and their priests imitated them), perhaps it is a glider. A thorn bush burns with fire, but does not burn (burning bush in Slavic) – spontaneous heating and burning of an insufficiently dried bush. Gorenje First, enzymatic (mainly oxidative) processes develop in the bush, then the rapid development of microorganisms begins, which play a leading role in the formation of heat. The process is intensified at high ambient temperature and wind, that is, with increased oxygen access. Anyone could speak, hiding behind a bush or somewhere else, and pursuing certain goals, in particular, establishing control over the «holy land» – Palestine, an important strategic place where the paths from Africa, Arabia, Asia Minor, Europe intersect. In addition, a burning bush is called a real plant, which is quite common, and in ancient times was deified, since people could not explain some of the properties of this plant. Botanists call it star anise, or, in another way, ash bushy. The pedicels of this perennial plant are densely dotted with thin black hairs-glands, from the microscopic holes of which ether is constantly and abundantly released, causing headaches and even loss of consciousness in humans. From touching the ether-bearing glands, the human skin becomes blistered more than from nettles. If you put a match to a blooming bucket on a warm, windless night, a blue-blue flame instantly flares up, which does not harm the plant).
3 Moses said, «I will go and see this great
