Moses speaks to his fellow Israelites:
And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, be no more stiffnecked. For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thin eyes have seen. Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.-Deuteronomy 10:12-22***Amram, Jochebed, and their children Miriam, Aaron and Moses were Israelites from the tribe of Levi, descended from Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob (Israel) and his 1st wife Leah, and Jacob and Leah's 3rd born son Levi. Before Moses was born, Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, commanded the Egyptians to throw into the river every newborn Israelite boy. Amram and Jochebed safely hid Moses. When Moses was 3 months old, Jochebed placed Moses inside a specially prepared ark and set the ark amid the vegetation by the river. Pharaoh's daughter saw the ark and told her maidservant to get the ark. Afterwards, Miriam arranged with Pharaoh's daughter to allow Jochebed to nurse Moses. When Moses was weaned, Moses began living in the palace as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. When Moses was 40 years old, he murdered an Egyptian, left Egypt, began living in Midian, and became the husband of Zipporah, a Midianite woman. When Moses was 80 years old and shepherding his father-in-law's sheep, the Lord God spoke to Moses and sent 80-year-old Moses and 83-year-old Aaron to speak to the Israelite elders and Pharaoh. The elders believed the message spoken. Pharaoh refused to believe. After the Lord God brought the 10th and final plague upon Pharaoh and Egypt, Pharaoh told Moses and Aaron to get the Israelites and their animals and go serve the Lord God. Thus, Moses and Aaron led the Israelites, and those with them, away from Egypt, across the divinely parted Red Sea, and into the desert wilderness of Shur. During the 40-year journey to Canaan, the Promised Land, Miriam died and was buried in Kadesh, in the desert wilderness of Zin. Upon Mount Hor, 123-year-old Aaron died and was buried. Shortly thereafter, Moses began proclaiming his last words to the Israelites, wrote the words of the law in a book, wrote a song and taught the song to the Israelites, blessed the Israelites, and went upon Mount Nebo. The Lord God showed Moses the Promised Land, and 120-year-old Moses died and was divinely buried. Joshua, Moses' successor, was from the tribe of Ephraim, descended from Jacob and his 2nd wife Rachel, their firstborn son Joseph and his wife Asenath, and Joseph and Asenath's 2nd born son Ephraim. However, Jacob proclaimed Ephraim and his older brother Manasseh to be his own sons. Joshua led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, and Isaac, and to Jacob, and their descendants. Reuben was the 1st son born to Jacob and Leah, and Gad was the 1st son born to Jacob and maidservant Zilpah. Israelites in the tribe of Reuben, and the tribe of Gad, and 1/2 the tribe of Manasseh identified the Lord God to be the Lord God of gods, the Mighty One. The divinely inspired writer of Psalm 136 revealed the Lord God to be God of gods and Lord of lords. Over 1,300 years after 110-year-old Joshua died and was buried in his tribe's portion of the Promised Land, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Jacob and Leah's 4th born son Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. Less than 33 1/2 years after Jesus was born to Joseph and Mary, Jesus was betrayed by Judas Iscariot, the disciple and apostle. Jesus was arrested, crucified, buried in a tomb, resurrected, and returned to heaven. Paul (Saul) was an Israelite from the tribe of Jacob and Rachel's 2nd and last son Benjamin. Paul did not believe Jesus to be the Christ. Throughout Jerusalem, Paul persecuted and imprisoned Israelites who believed Jesus to be the Christ of God. During a journey to the synagogues in Damascus, Syria, to find, bind and take to Jerusalem any Israelite believers he found, Paul and those with him saw a light from heaven flash around them. Paul heard the voice of Jesus speaking to him, and Paul spoke to Jesus, and obeyed Jesus. In Damascus, Paul was baptized. From thenceforward, Paul the apostle journeyed and wrote divinely inspired letters, teaching Israelites and Gentiles, people not born into the Israelite tribes, the good news of Jesus the Christ and everlasting life. In a letter to Timothy (Timotheus), Paul identified the Lord God as the King of kings and Lord of lords, the King of those being kings and the Lord of those being lords. A multitude of Scriptures in the Holy Bible reveal that other gods are man-made, not gods at all. Moreover, the Lord God proclaimed, through Isaiah the prophet, that no god existed before the Lord God and none will ever exist.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 7:20-29, 8:1-40, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles, Psalm 136, Isaiah 36:1-37:38, 43:1-28, 45:1-46:13, Jeremiah 16:1-21, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26, 6:1-8:4, 9:1-31, 11:19-28:31, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon