Bible: Exodus

Glossary

• Aaron Moses’ brother and Israel’s first high priest
• Abraham … Isaac … Jacob: the Old Testament patriarchs who preceded Moses
• Midian: a place possibly in northwestern Arabia on the east shore of the Gulf of Aqaba and the northern Red Sea
• Moses: in Hebrew, Moshe, a member of the Levite tribe and the leader of the Exodus
• Pharaoh: the hereditary ruler of Egypt whose throne name is never given (possibly Ramses II)