Capitolo 42
his/her instinct to live a honest man.
I CAPITULATE II.
The interval during which Moses conducted the exodus falls, naturally, in
three parts of uneven length. The first one consists some months that
past among the departure from Ramses and the arrival to Sinai. The
according to he/she understands him halt to Sinai, while the bystander contains the history of
the rest of his/her life, ending with Mountain Nebo.
Its tests immediately started. The March was not really a week old first the
column was in almost-revolt because he had known so little of the country,
what he had conducted the caravan three days through a wild region without water
where they feared to perish from thirst. And the matters firmly grew worse.
To Rephidim, "And the people murmured against Moses, and say, Because
it is this that you hasts revealed us on Egypt, to kill us and our
children and our bovine livestock with thirst?" Not impossibly Moses anchors it is able, to
this stage of its experiences, has believed in him, in the God him
false to serve, and in his/her mission. At least him it pretended an of this way
doing. Indeed, he had. Not to have done you/he/she would have provoked so his
immediate fall. He had to always do so, in every emergency of his/her life.
Some days later him it was at the end of his/her intelligence. He cried to the God, that that
will I do to this people? They is almost ready to take me to blows." In shortly,
you crave before the congregation reached Sinai, and indeed before Moses had
fought against his/her first battle with Amalek, the people you/they had come to doubt in
Moses and also to question if there was such god as him it pretended.
"And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the
scolding some children of Israel, and because they tried the God,
saying, the God È among us, or not?"
"Then it came to Amalek, and it fought with Israel in Rephidim." [The footnote: the exodus
xvii, 7 8.]
Under such conditions it was vital to Moses to show decision and
courage; but it was here that Moseses, on the contrary one he withdrew; as him