96:4.2 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] had heard of the teachings of [[Machiventa]] [[Melchizedek]] from both his [[father]] and his [[mother]], their commonness of [[religious]] [[belief]] being the [[explanation]] for the unusual [[union]] between a [[woman]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_family royal blood] and a [[man]] from a captive [[race]]. Moses' father-in-law was a [[Kenite]] [[worshiper]] of [[El Elyon]], but the emancipator's [[parents]] were believers in [[El Shaddai]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] thus was [[educated]] an [[El Shaddai]]st; through the [[influence]] of his father-in-law he became an [[El Elyon]]ist; and by the time of the [[Hebrew]] encampment about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sinai Mount Sinai] after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus flight from Egypt], he had formulated a new and enlarged [[concept]] of [[Deity]] (derived from all his former [[beliefs]]), which he wisely [[decided]] to [[proclaim]] to his people as an expanded [[concept]] of their olden [[tribal]] god, [[Yahweh]]. | 96:4.2 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] had heard of the teachings of [[Machiventa]] [[Melchizedek]] from both his [[father]] and his [[mother]], their commonness of [[religious]] [[belief]] being the [[explanation]] for the unusual [[union]] between a [[woman]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_family royal blood] and a [[man]] from a captive [[race]]. Moses' father-in-law was a [[Kenite]] [[worshiper]] of [[El Elyon]], but the emancipator's [[parents]] were believers in [[El Shaddai]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] thus was [[educated]] an [[El Shaddai]]st; through the [[influence]] of his father-in-law he became an [[El Elyon]]ist; and by the time of the [[Hebrew]] encampment about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sinai Mount Sinai] after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus flight from Egypt], he had formulated a new and enlarged [[concept]] of [[Deity]] (derived from all his former [[beliefs]]), which he wisely [[decided]] to [[proclaim]] to his people as an expanded [[concept]] of their olden [[tribal]] god, [[Yahweh]]. |