Promised Land
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In Abrahamic religions, the "Promised Land" is an area in the Levant that God chose to bestow, via a series of covenants, upon the family and descendants of Abraham.
Imagined painting by Frans Pourbus the Elder (c. 1565–1580) depicting the Israelite's God showing Moses the Promised Land
The Exodus
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The Exodus is the founding myth of the Israelites whose narrative is spread over four of the five books of the Pentateuch. The narrative describes a history of Egyptian bondage of the Israelites follo
Promised Land
…Jerusalem. According to the biblical account, the Promised Land was not inherited until the Israelite conquest of Canaan, which took place shortly after the Exodus. These promises were given to Abram, later called Abraham, before the birth of his sons. Abraham's family tree includes both the Ishmaelite tribes, the…
The Departure of the Israelites (David Roberts, 1829)
Israel in Egypt (Edward Poynter, 1867)
Lamentations over the Death of the First-Born of Egypt by Charles Sprague Pearce (1877)
Moses parts the Red Sea (1907 print)