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The Israelites ( / ˈɪzrəlaɪts, - riə -/; [1] [2] Hebrew: בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, Bənēy Yīsrāʾēl, transl. 'Children of Israel ') were a group of Semitic-speaking tribes in the ancient Near East who, during the Iron Age, inhabited a part of Canaan. [3] [4] They were also an ethnoreligious group.
Stations of the Exodus. The Stations of the Exodus are the locations visited by the Israelites following their exodus from Egypt, according to the Hebrew Bible. In the itinerary given in Numbers 33, forty-two stations are listed, [1] although this list differs slightly from the narrative account of the journey found in Exodus and Deuteronomy .
The Hebrew Bible, especially the Books of Genesis and Exodus, describes a long period during which the children of Israel, also called Israelites, lived in the Nile Delta of ancient Egypt. According to Shaye J. D. Cohen , "Most Israelites were actually of Canaanite stock; their ancestors did not participate in an Exodus from Egypt; Israelites ...
The Exodus ( Hebrew: יציאת מצרים, Yəṣīʾat Mīṣrayīm: lit. 'Departure from Egypt' [a]) is the founding myth [b] of the Israelites whose narrative is spread over four of the five books of the Pentateuch (specifically, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy ). The consensus of modern scholars is that the Pentateuch does not ...
Joseph ( / ˈdʒoʊzəf, - səf /; Hebrew: יוֹסֵף, romanized : Yōsēp̄, lit. 'He shall add') [2] [a] is an important Hebrew figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis and in the Quran. He was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's twelfth named child and eleventh son). He is the founder of the Tribe of Joseph among the ...
In the Jewish narrative, Pharaoh's daughter first appears in the Book of Exodus, in Exodus 2:5–10. The passage describes her discovery of the Hebrew child, Moses, in the rushes of the Nile River and her willful defiance of her father's orders that all male Hebrew children be drowned in the "Yeor" (Hebrew: יְאוֹר) (Nile), instead taking the child, whom she knows to be a Hebrew, and ...
Moses [note 1] was a Hebrew teacher and leader [2] considered the most important prophet in Judaism [3] [4] and one of the most important prophets in Christianity, Islam, the Baháʼí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. According to both the Bible and the Quran, [5] Moses was the leader of the Israelites and lawgiver to whom the prophetic ...
Israel's bombardment and ground offensives have killed more than 34,800 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which doesn't distinguish between civilians ...