lift up (one's hand) = to swear

Ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates in southern Mesopotamia. Abraham's birthplace, called 'Ur of the Chalde…

Israel's escape from slavery in Egypt under Moses, the giving of the Law at Sinai, and the building of the tab…

Forty years of wandering in the wilderness between Sinai and Canaan. Two generations: the one that came out of…

Moses's farewell sermons on the plains of Moab, restating the Law for the generation about to cross the Jordan…

Son of Nun of the tribe of Ephraim, attendant to Moses and commander at Rephidim (Exo.17). After Moses he led …

A priest and scribe "skilled in the Law of Moses," Ezra led the second return of exiles in 458 BC and devoted …