Just as an aside, the Promised Land was from the Nile to the Euphrates( Exodus 23:31) which was given to them and their descendants once they were out of Egypt. Now oddly enough, the Hebrews and their descendants never once controlled the Promised Land – they only controlled a small rather grubby section of it well removed from both fertile rivers which spawned magnificent civilizations lasting far longer than any Israeli( Northern) or Judean( Southern) Kingdom did. So from all logical perspectives, the Promised Land is still promised and remains to be delivered 7.
So after a bit of storyline where Moses, an Egyptian Prince, whose early history is a close copy of that of Sargon the Great 8, finds out that he is not Egyptian after all but really Hebrew, has some adventures and ends up working for YHWH, the Hebrew god. YHWH sends Moses to the Pharaoh of Egypt to demand the release of his chosen people, the Hebrews. It’ s odd that for something this important to a people’ s cultural identity that they didn’ t remember his actual name – Pharaoh is an epithet meaning“ great house” as a reference to the King’ s palace, which was frequently one of the titles of the Kings of Egypt 9. It’ s also funny how all that time spent living in a superior culture like the Egyptian never allowed the Hebrews to learn the local language. You would think that writing would be a good skill to pick up after the many generations that they supposedly lived in Egypt. When they first start writing, supposedly hundreds of years later 10, they are using a Canaanite language. Which in itself is strange since Abraham supposed came from the Chaldean culture of Ur, but Hebrew is not related to those language groups nor did the Hebrews use the Chaldean form of writing. I suppose the Hebrews read up on Canaanite languages before going there?
The Plagues
But when Moses gets to see the“ unnamed King”( makes him sound like something out of H. P. Lovecraft, doesn’ t it?), after some neat magic tricks by both Moses and the unnamed King’ s magicians, Moses asks for the Hebrew’ s freedom but YHWH“ hardens” the heart of the unnamed King who
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