Compare And Contrast The Paraoh And Adonai's People

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Tyler Allred
Period 6
November 5th
Mrs. Hamilton
The Pharaoh vs. Adonai’s people
Imagine you couldn’t remember the last time you had a day off of work or a time when you had fun, or even being enslaved a place where your religion was being overruled? In the book of Exodus the Pharaoh had enslaved the Israelites to build him magnificent buildings. The Hebrews has had a long hard history and Ancient Egypt is probably their earliest known period of inequity.
First off Pharaoh´s greatest fear was losing his workforce or have them join the enemy in the next war for they outnumbered the Egyptians. The Egyptians were slaves in Egypt for two hundred and fifteen years(some say over four hundred). According to the Book of Exodus; when the Israelites were in Egypt they were enslaved to Pharaoh (who was treated as and believed was a god himself)(Daniel Crane). The Israelites were enslaved in Egypt to build magnificent treasure cities and monuments to the Pharaoh. The Israelites enslaved for many many years were put to work making sandstone bricks and building his glorious temples(Daniel Crane). The Pharaoh was a very cruel man to the slaves, getting himself an infuriated challenger, Adonai.
Pharaoh didn’t quite have all the Israelis working for the temple. Many Israelites …show more content…

For one, Pharaoh puts Egyptian women through hard times when he orders the execution of male babies at the time of Moses’s birth. One of Pharaoh’s advisors tell him that Israel’s savior’s mother is pregnant with him so Pharaoh orders the execution of all male babies (including those of Egyptian women)(Daniel Crane). Pharaoh technically has his people punished for the Israelis. When God sends the 10 plagues Pharaoh does not let up and forces his people to endure through all ten plagues(Daniel Crane). And his people couldn’t even do anything without his permission. Therefore, making Pharaoh`s royal subjects unfairly treated much like his slaves

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