Moses and Aaron before the Pharaoh, c.1585 - Johan Wierix, 1549 - 1618, ... “let my people go,” unless it is understood as a paraphrased ‘let my people go on a vacation’.

But then, in the following verse, the Torah teaches us: “And afterward, Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh: Thus says Hashem, Lord of Israel, let My people go that they may celebrate a ...

G-d instructed Moses to command to the Jewish people the laws of freeing slaves. The Talmud is referring to a law recorded later in Exodus: If a Jew sells himself as a slave, the owner must let ...

As his many admirers will anticipate, Spirin's extraordinary art is the raison d'être of this stately looking volume. ... "Now, won't you agree to let my people go?" Moses enquires of the pharaoh.