Parashat Va’eira: Who can’t? A careful reading of Pharaoh’s words to Moses and Aaron shows an interesting linguistic oddity. THE SIGN: The staff became a serpent, then returned to being a staff.

Moses is the most famous, influential, and revered figure in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, surpassing King David by the ...

2) The bronze serpent not only is a foreshadowing of Christ on the cross (John 3:14: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up”), but also an ...

Moses the law-giver grasps the tail of a snake and turns it into a straight, inanimate staff, casting the Mosaic code as a kind of cheat sheet that can forewarn us if certain deeds will inevitably ...