Miriam the prophetess
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.-Exodus 15:20-21***Anna the prophetess was an Israelite from the tribe of Asher, descended from Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob (Israel) and Zilpah, and Jacob and Zilpah's 2nd born son Asher. Zilpah was the maidservant of Leah, Jacob's 1st wife. Leah's younger sister Rachel was Jacob's 2nd wife. In Padan Aram, Haran, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and daughter Dinah were born to Jacob and Leah. Dan and Naphtali were born to Jacob and Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant. Asher and Gad were born to Jacob and Zilpah. Joseph was the 1st son born to Jacob and Rachel, and Rachel and Joseph were Jacob's favorites. During Jacob's 20th year in Haran, he began journeying home to Canaan with his family, servants, animals, and possessions. Near Bethlehem, Benjamin was born to Jacob and Rachel, and Rachel died. Joseph was 17 years old when his brothers sold him to merchants traveling to Egypt and led Jacob to believe that Joseph was killed by a wild beast. The merchants sold Joseph to Potiphar, an Egyptian official. Potiphar's wife made a false accusation, and Potiphar put Joseph in prison. At least 2 years after Joseph explained the meaning of a dream to the imprisoned cupbearer who served Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and explained the meaning of a dream to Pharaoh's imprisoned baker, 30-year-old Joseph explained the meaning of a dream to Pharaoh, and Pharaoh proclaimed Joseph second-in-command. After the 2nd time that Joseph's brothers were in Egypt during a famine to buy corn (grain), Joseph identified himself to them and told his brothers to move with their families, including Jacob, to Egypt. Pharaoh heard about the reunion and expressed his generosity and hospitality. In Beersheba, Jacob offered sacrifices to the Lord God, and the Lord God spoke to 130-year-old Jacob. In Egypt, Jacob proclaimed Manasseh and Ephraim, the sons born to Joseph and his wife Asenath, to be his own sons, and the tribe of Joseph became the tribe of Manasseh and the tribe of Ephraim. Sometime after 147-year-old Jacob died in Egypt, and Jacob's family buried his body in Canaan, and 110-year-old Joseph and his siblings were dead, the Israelties were enslaved in Egypt. Miriam and her younger brother Aaron and their new baby brother were born into the tribe of Levi to Amram and Jochebed. Amram and Jochbed hid their new baby to keep him safe from the murderous intentions of Pharaoh. When the baby was 3 months old, Jochbed placed him in a specially prepared ark and put the ark amid the vegetation by the river. Miriam watched Pharaoh's daughter send a maidservant to get the ark, and Miriam spoke with Pharaoh's daughter, and arrangements were made for Jochebed to be hired as the wet nurse for the baby. After the child was weaned, Jochebed took him to Pharaoh's daughter, and Pharaoh's daughter named the child Moses, and Moses lived as her son. When Moses was 40 years old, he killed an Egyptian and hid the body, and the murder was mentioned to Moses, and Pharaoh wanted to kill Moses, and Moses bolted from Egypt and began living in Midian, and was married to Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro (Reuel), a Midianite descended from Abraham and his 2nd wife Keturah and their son Midian. Gershom and Eliezer were born to Moses and Zipporah. Moses was 80 years old and herding Jethro's sheep amid the region of Mount Horeb (Sinai), the mountain of God, when he saw a fiery sight and heard the Lord God call his name. The Lord God gave Moses a command, and the Lord God and Moses spoke with each other, and the Lord God sent Moses and 83-year-old Aaron to speak to the Israelite elders and Pharaoh. The elders believed the words of the Lord God spoken by Aaron. Pharaoh did not believe, and he made work for the Israelites more difficult. 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 worship the Lord God. Moreover, Pharaoh told Moses and Aaron to bless him, and the Egyptians wanted the Israelites to hurry and leave. Before Moses and Aaron led the Israelites, and those with them, away from Egypt, the Israelites asked for and were given an abundance of valuable goods, fulfilling the words that the Lord God spoke to Abraham. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that the Lord God went before the Israelites in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. Pharaoh and his army, with their chariots, horses, and horsemen started pursuing the Israelites. At the Red Sea, the Israelites saw the Egyptians and were afraid and cried out to the Lord God and questioned Moses. Moses spoke to the Israelites, and the Lord God spoke to Moses, and the Angel of God went behind the Israelites, the pillar of cloud stood behind the Israelites, giving light to the Israelites and being a cloud and darkness to the Egyptians. Moses obeyed the commands of the Lord God, and the Lord God caused the sea to go back, and the Red Sea was divided. The Israelites walked across on the dry ground, and the Lord God troubled the Egyptian army. As Moses obeyed the commands of the Lord God, the Red Sea returned to its full depth, and the Lord God overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the Red Sea. The Israelites saw the dead bodies of the Egyptians, and had seen all that the Lord God had done in Egypt, and the Israelites revered the Lord God, and believed the Lord God, and believed Moses. Moses and his fellow Israelites sang a song to the Lord God, and Miriam and other women responded. Over 1,400 years after the Israelites entered the desert wilderness of Shur, and the desert wilderness of Sin, and the desert wilderness of Sinai on a 40-year journey to Canaan, the Promised Land, John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, were born. John the Baptist was born into the tribe of Levi to Zechariah (Zacharias) the priest and his wife Elizabeth (Elisabeth). Jesus the Christ was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Elizabeth's relative Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born in Bethlehem into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. On the 8th day after John the Baptist was born, he was circumcised, and on the 8th day after Jesus the Christ was born, Jesus was circumcised, according to the covenant of circumcision that the Lord God gave Abraham. When the days of Mary's purification were fulfilled, Joseph and Mary brought Jesus to Jerusalem, approximately 6 miles from Bethlehem, to present Jesus to the Lord God and offer the appropriate sacrifice, according to the laws that the Lord God gave Moses for the Israelites. In Jerusalem, at the temple of the Lord, righteous and devout Simeon received Jesus into his arms, and blessed the Lord God and blessed the family, and Anna the prophetess saw Jesus and thanked the Lord God and spoke of Jesus to everyone waiting for the anticipated redemption.-Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus 12:1-8, Numbers 13:1-14:45, 20:1-29, 26:1-27:23, Deuteronomy 31:1-34:12, Joshua 1:1-5:15, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra 1:1-11, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
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