In most of OT it doesn't seem like Israelites were monotheist the way Christians are nowadays. They acknowledged that other gods exist - just Jahwe was their God (and the best one). As such pharanon's sorcerers obviously had an access to divine. They could do miracles for the same reasons Israelites could. The issue is that their gods were inferior
Zeus, seeing the Egyptian Gods struggle to overpower a single god: Sucks to be them. I'll cheat on my wife in their honor... Who am I kidding? I was planning on doing that anyway!
@@mr.outlaw231lmao. I like to believe that Zeus’s actual main contribution was convincing the Mesopotamian gods to stay out of the Trojan War. Case point: Aphrodite is based on Ishtar. And there’s that whole scene where Zeus tells her that war isn’t for dainty girls like her, even though Aphrodite is a patron of the Trojans in the war due to Paris and Aeneis. That scene always struck me as a “Well, this was probably told differently in the places where Aphrodite was a war goddess like Sparta, Carthage, and Babylon…”
@@mra4521 i also imagine its more of a case of "i rather he be on them then us cause i aint facing him down" and everyone agreeing cause its funny as fuck to imagine God just being this looming being who sometimes just gives out random advice
@@mra4521we Astarte is also technically god wife (if you go with el being the original god that god originated from) so Aphrodite probably was with her husband in Egypt
@@erdood3235 It's actually Greek for "the road out" ("ex" = out of, and "hodos" = road). The actual Hebrew name of the book is "שְׁמוֹת Šəmōṯ," meaning "names". Genesis ("beginnings") and Deuteronomy ("second law") are also Greek names.
I love your Easter egg about how, in the original Biblical Hebrew, the sea that was crossed was called Yam Suph ("Sea of Reeds"). While Yam Suph has traditionally been interpreted as referring to the Red Sea, some modern scholars dispute this.
They think it was actually a Marsh ~40 miles north of the Red Sea that had a phenomena where the water drained to one side of the marsh under certain wind conditions. Sadly it was destroyed when they built the Suez Canal
Wait, what other sea do they think it could be? The only two major bodies of water between Egypt and Canaan are the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, the latter of which not leading to any desert except the ones already within the land of Canaan. It can't be the Dead Sea or the Sea of Galilee, as they later cross the Jordan River, which connects those two so it would make no sense, and the Great Bitter Lakes weren't filled with water until the 20th century so definitely not those.
@@orbracha25 The most common alternative I have heard from Biblical scholars is the Gulf of Aqaba, which, to be fair, is still a part of the Red Sea. Other alternatives I've encountered include Lake Timash or Lake Bardawil.
@@zachjaeger6401 The Nile river? But it was mentioned under the name Yeor in this very story. Plus it's not on the way out of Egypt, it is the very center of Egypt in every way
Imagine being that one Egyptian who took a vacation to Cyprus or something just before Moses returned to Egypt. You come back and the economy is in shambles, the firstborn are dead, and a good chunk of the slaves are gone
2:17 "And the Horus puts it in the salad" One of my favorite bits of Egyptian myth. This is a vital part of Horus defeating his uncle, which makes it even more hilarious that it's something that feels out of a bad 2000s comedy. Did Jake do a video on Set's lettuce?
Me when the local water supply turns into a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells:
when I was younger, I was uncomfortable that every time the Pharoah was on the verge of releasing the Israelites God would harden his heart. But it wasn't until much later, and especially this video, that it occurred to me that the Plauges weren't meant to just torment the Egyptians but also send a message to both the Israelites and the people of the desert, which...unfortunately, didn't pan out so well...
Actually this is not quite correct, since earlier in the bible pharaoh hardened his heart and God wasn't mentioned. It's not magic that hardened Pharaoh's heart but God's actions, essentially every time God told pharaoh what to do pharaoh did that thing kids do when you tell them to tidy their rooms: "well I'm not doing it now"
So God "hardening" Pharaoh's heart isn't meant to be seen as the active hand of God making Pharaoh say no, but more that Pharaoh became hardened at the power of the Lord due to his own pride. God hardened Pharaoh's heart the same way that sunlight hardens clay, it's moreso the clays natural response to sunlight than the active decision of the sunlight to make the clay harder.
@@crispybacon9917"earlier in the bible pharaoh hardened his heart and God wasn't mentioned" This doesn't make any sense as an argument. Why should God be unable to harden the Pharaoh's heart because the Pharaoh can harden his own heart? The text explicitly says Yahweh hardens the Pharaohs heart over and over. (Exodus 4:21, 7:3, 9:12, 10:1, 10:20, 10:27, 11:10) Indeed, it seems to make a point of emphasizing that without this action, the plagues would have changed the Pharaoh's mind. Or at the very least that the plagues actually are making Pharaoh lean toward relenting, not the opposite as you say. (Exodus 7:21-22, Exodus 8:15, 9:7, 9:34) With all this, you might wonder why Yahweh is doing this. The text answers this several times. (Exodus 7:3-5, Exodus 10:1-2, Exodus 11:9) "I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials in order that I may show these signs of mine among them" In other words, it's a divine show of power. It's true that some other sections seem to imply that the Pharaoh's heart was not hardened by Yahweh and/or that the plagues were actually intended to convince Pharaoh. ("Indeed by a mighty hand he will let them go", Exodus 6:1) It seems that there are multiple traditions with different understandings of this in the text. Possibly, since Yahweh hardens the Pharaoh's heart more explicitly toward the end, the escalating plagues would have eventually convinced Pharaoh before the firstborn deaths, but Yahweh hardened his heart to allow his demonstration of power to reach its climax. I suspect this may be the perspective of the final editors who of course combined the traditions we have into a more or less cohesive whole.
Humans are made in the image of God. So,what happens when humans get powerful? They show off,it goes to our heads and corrupts us. If you read the Bible with the knowledge that this is God’s word and therefore inherently bias,it actually paints the picture that God is just as prideful and power-hungry as humans. The difference being that he has supreme power. My guy can see the future and still fucks things up constantly (Eden being a major example. “Oh,yeah,I’ll throw two gullible idiots,a manipulative snake who wants evil to prevail and a tree that will ruin everything in the same garden. What could go wrong?”). You can only manage that if you’re so prideful that you just think you know better.
Never realized how much Moses's brother Aaron did in this story. It's oddly endearing how Moses actively tries to get his big brother Aaron to be involved in his prophet shenanigans.
In popular media Moses is always this charismatic leader when in reality (or the story) he was far away from it. It's shame that Hollywood tends to oversymplify stories this way. Just like they always use tall people as action heroes while a short guy being able to defeat dudes bigger than him is more exciting
If memory serves me well, I remember that this specific part of the Bible was ancient propaganda to depict the Egyptians as evil slave keepers (which they were). But that was coming from people who they themselves WERE slave owners.
Hell, it's the whole reason why the ancient Mediterranean stereotype of Jews worshiping a donkey god was even made in the first place. It was (Hellenic-ruled) Egypt's response to a story that they considered offensive in their eyes, especially when it came from a people whose homeland was, at the time, considered a backwater piece of shit.
The Difference between how Israel had slaves and Egypt were night and day jews slaves were part of the family and could marry into the family of their owners and had to be treated with human rights if they were wrongfully beaten or killed the owner would be killed or beaten
And you can't also call it propaganda since Genesis depicts the first pharaoh as kind hearted and the people accommodating to the Israelites the change came with new management
@@orpheemulemo8053 of note is that there is apparently no surviving records of hebrew slaves, so either it was lost to time or egyptians genuinely did respect the hebrew people's right to worship, and just left them alone Of course there is option three of me not doing enough research, but if you go down that route i would like to know what your source is, so i can check it myself
1:10 Just as an aside, it's interesting how every film adaptation of this forgets that Aaron also got to do miracles. The movies always have Moses do everything. Aaron kinda gets done dirty.
it doesn't make for a good story to have somebody who's gonna do all the important stuff instead of your main character yet your main character will have all the credit. Also, you don't really need both of them since they fill the same narrative role, so why not cut the character you can remove without any affect on the story? It's just practical
@@orpheemulemo8053 Joseph wasn’t a historical figure. There’s no evidence that a seven year famine ever existed in Egypt or that a random outsider ever helped them survive it. You can watch another video by this very TH-camr explaining that Joseph’s story is obviously two separate stories spliced together. Also, I was making a joke because there’s also absolutely no evidence that the Hebrews were ever enslaved en masse in Egypt, which means that there wasn’t actually an exodus.
@@SleepyPotterFan Joseph not being a historical figure is something highly impossible since in Egypt there are litteral stone slabs with the name of the people of Israel meaning at some point jews and Egyptians were in contact Not only that Egypt is famously known to edit there loses because they had big egos or try to eras entire kings because they did not agree to them and had multiple different dynastys Joseph story takes place when Egypt was still young and he went by a different name Not only that there is a dark period in Egyptian and Canaanites history in which the jews suddenly appeared as the dominant force of the region Giving profe for theories that jews were. once canaanites
Coming back to say I really, really appreciate the seriousness and emotion Jake took with his respect of Passover. Like the entire video is just up up up up up with comedy and amazing edits, and this impending sense of doom because of Moses, but Jake’s tonal change make me emotional and really sold the gravity of the situation. For a lot of us, Passover is never seen from the perspective of those who weren’t passed over. Even “Prince of Egypt” sells the pain of it, but its still hard to feel bad for Pharaoh in POE, because it’s seen as a “serves you right for being arrogant, tee hee”. The Pharaoh is more angry than his despairing at the loss of his son. Even as a kid, the image of him hunched over his son’s body scowling terrified me. But Jake is the first historian/youtuber I’ve ever heard (Catholic school kid w/hyperreligious Christian-Baptist Black family, so it’s not like I don’t know my scripture) who stressed that God literally manipulated Pharaoh into literally being stubborn and losing his son. I feel significantly worse for both Moses and Pharaoh in Jake’s depiction of this than POE. Like you really feel his sorrow. My heart broke when Moses walked, broken, like off like “Don’t worry…”. Even now, it’s making me emotional. Amazing work!
Something that might help is the fact that all of this was done by God, not a murder by human hands. Since He created everything that ever exists, He is the only being with the right to take it away. So in a way, one way or another the child would have been taken by God anyway no matter what they do. Such is the nature of death. At least the child died in his sleep, not murdered in war or died because of pestilence. It is simply an acceleration of the inevitable.
Didn’t make them like almost immediately they went back to slavery when they found the promised land Read Joshua they signed a pact with sone people then when they came to the town abd weerd told that was the town they forged the contract with they just enslaved the lot because they couldn’t brutally murder them The Bronze Age was pointlessly barbaric
Don't forget the pharaoh had his free will removed when god hardened his heart the entire time of the plagues until the very end. He was going to let Moses's people go free until Yahweh did that to him just to show off a fraction of his power and might to the egyptians who promptly forgot if it actually happened which it didn't... so... yeah...
My theory is that the Lord wanted to humiliate the egyptian gods since they're false idols and needed any excuse possible. His main goal was to show the Egyptians that he alone is the true god of everything which is why he kept sending plagues that targeted the gods of egypt (as if saying: I slayed your gods and made them bleed)
The conceptions behind Exodus were so fascinating in my opinion. These texts were written and orally told during the Henotheistic period of the Israelites. Many other gods are mentioned and attributed to in the OT. We see an example in this video. Miracles, not enacted by God, are performed by the Egyptians. The god of the Israelites was meant to be their supreme god. Only he was worthy of worship in their eyes, but the existence of other gods wasn't denied or disbelieved. This eventually did change though, the faith, not long after, switched to proper monotheism. It's always fascinating to read into it all.
Idk if i said it already but I was taught (as well as other people in other schools) that moses was stuttering and that kinda made moses someone i can relate to as someone that stutters
I'm Jewish, religiously so. So hearing Moses scream out "what do you mean by that" to God of all entities is one of the most biblically accurate things I have ever heard.
I’m a Christian and these videos are beyond amazing and accurate 😅 Including the uncomfortable parts that we struggle to understand Thank you for this!!!
That's Jake charms for me he don't try to adapt the story but to showcase how originally crazy they are ( in an educational way regarding interpretation )
After having to hear these stories over and over in my childhood, it’s really fun seeing them in a new perspective. Especially with the humor being so funny.
“Well that raises some questions about free will I don’t feel like getting into right now” Yep. To be fair,this is what I do in the Sims when I want a villain character though. “Oh,you’re apologising? No,you aren’t”. Just more proof that reality is a game of the Sims and God is the player
Wow I kinda love the idea of Moses, a famous prophet actually taking issue with God's ten plagues idea, trying his best to stop the worst from happening even if he knows it's futile in the end.
@@JakeDoubleyoo 1st: I can't believe you answered! Nice! 2nd: indeed, He Is what He Is. 3rd: my particular opinion about god is not the greatest. Mainly because things like the pharaoh stone-turned heart
@@umdemuitos2005Well , No one around that time was good , even the israeliates who we're supposed to be God's chosen people were so broken that God had to take small steps to unharden their hearts , Pharaoh absolutely enjoyed all the bad things he did and never actually cared for the egyptians Pharaoh was really like that kid who does WORSE when you scold him for his own BAD DOINGS I can't even imagine God thought when he allowed slavery just because the israeliates couldn't live with the idea of not having them , at least they had set out rules to not be absolute torture for them , even Jesus scolded the israelites as God made incomplete laws because their heart was hard
I think it would be cool if later on there was a video made about prophet jeremiah and his prophecies about jerusalems fall to babylon or on the book of revelation in detail. But so far these are good videos, nice job!!
huh, with the parting of the re(e)d sea, i was always taught that one old man had to wade into the water all the way up to his head before the lord parted the sea, not that moses just did some jazz hands and it opened
@@assymezzo Egypt messed with Israel; God promised that those who bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse Israel will be cursed. God keeps his promises; DON'T MESS WITH HIS CHILDREN!
As a christian, I love how you did this man. This in no way felt disrespectful to my faith, probably strengthened it somewhat! Hope you keep doing bible videos, and if by a rare happenstance you find this comment, have a blessed day! May the Lord be with you.
I've always been confused regarding the Nile turning to blood. Was it the entire river or just the part in Egypt? I think it's amusing to picture giraffes thousands of kilometers away freaking out because the river is now all red
Come to think of it, the Nile flows into the Mediterrean, which connects to the Atlantic, which connects to the rest of the world's oceans. Did all of the planet's water turn to blood? If so, that's hilarious and terrifying
For conveniences sake, let's imagine that it was just the part of the Nile as crosses through Aigyptos that was transfigured. Even though the Book of Exodus specifies that all of the water in Egypt was made blood, brother the Nile ALONE turning into blood would irreversibly *d e s t r o y* Egypt, all of the river life, the fish and others, would wash up the riverbank with their rotting corpses pilled up there as the _unimaginably horrid_ stink would set in; all of Egypt would be absent the ability to bathe and disease would run rampant; starvation sets in as the kingdom *_doesn't have a tangible harvest anymore._*
Then it would’ve made that clear. It literally states “The Lord hardened his heart”. It doesn’t say that the Pharaohs heart hardened (with no mention of God) or at least due to Pharaohs hatred for the Lord his heart hardened
@@BIGTHANKSHEESH it’s an interpretation Otherwise, God can control our free will, which is what Satan wanted to do before being cast out of heaven. God will not affect our free will, as it destroys the meaning of life.
Jake nice job on giving the characters some advanced expressions! this is really incredible nice work man! 👌🏿😤 you deserve a 1million views on these videos you rightfully deserve that man. 👍🏿
I think that Exodus is a nice window into the past, during the time when priests wanted to encourage Israelites to worship only one God. You can feel the frustration. "He is the most powerful God, why can't you see it!". From the story telling perspective it doesn't make sense that Israelites would ever go against their God in any way. They know what he is capable of. Meanwhile they seem to only moan and seek other gods. It makes more sense if you interpret the whole story as a message for its reader. "Other gods might look cool but remember - ours is the best so stop cheating on Jahwe"
Amazing. I love both the references to the Kemetic (Ancient Egyptian) mythology and the historical giggles about Re(e)d Sea, not to mention making fun of the nonsensical, cruel and inhuman parts of the bible never gets old (can't wait for all these stories in Judges or much sooner, when we go to Joshua and his conquests of Jericho, Ai et cetera). Great work! I hope you enjoy making this series and it shall continue until properly finished! ^^
Horribly socially anxious Moses is my new favorite depiction of him
It is basically the Biblical account, lol
that's the canon Moses hahaha
It's mostly biblical too, it never says he was anxious but he does say he isn't a good public speaker
@@crispybacon9917some sources say he had a lisp also
Well he had severe case of stuttering to the point Aharon was the one giving all the speech’s
"Oh, my Ra, no way!" *UNDERRATED LINE!*
Cleo DeNile: "I'm glad you think so. I am the one who coined the phrase."
2:20 Here is the timing for anyone you want
I love how the fact that Pharaoh has actual sorcerers who do real magic is treated as such a mundane thing 😂
Well it was stated they were able to do for the first two plagues same stuff just to lesser level in the Tanakh
Yeah it was pretty normal in Egyptian society
@@kodabear2856Right alongside card games.
In most of OT it doesn't seem like Israelites were monotheist the way Christians are nowadays. They acknowledged that other gods exist - just Jahwe was their God (and the best one). As such pharanon's sorcerers obviously had an access to divine. They could do miracles for the same reasons Israelites could. The issue is that their gods were inferior
It's implied in the OT that other gods exist just that they're not supposed to be worshipped.
It’s fun to imagine this happening at the same time as the Trojan War.
Zeus, seeing the Egyptian Gods struggle to overpower a single god: Sucks to be them. I'll cheat on my wife in their honor...
Who am I kidding? I was planning on doing that anyway!
@@mr.outlaw231lmao.
I like to believe that Zeus’s actual main contribution was convincing the Mesopotamian gods to stay out of the Trojan War.
Case point: Aphrodite is based on Ishtar. And there’s that whole scene where Zeus tells her that war isn’t for dainty girls like her, even though Aphrodite is a patron of the Trojans in the war due to Paris and Aeneis.
That scene always struck me as a “Well, this was probably told differently in the places where Aphrodite was a war goddess like Sparta, Carthage, and Babylon…”
@@mra4521 i also imagine its more of a case of "i rather he be on them then us cause i aint facing him down" and everyone agreeing cause its funny as fuck to imagine God just being this looming being who sometimes just gives out random advice
@@mr.outlaw231being fair according to Ancient Greece the Egyptian and Greek gods were the same
@@mra4521we Astarte is also technically god wife (if you go with el being the original god that god originated from) so Aphrodite probably was with her husband in Egypt
The sorcerers just being ancient Team Rocket is hilarious
"What do you mean!" Said Moses calmly.
Dumbledore moment
"Did you have to put us on the desert?!" Said Moses while shaking Him as close friend.
My favorite part of about the frog plague is that the torah uses the singular. Frog covered the land of egypt. One giant kaiju frog.
The frog, touches sand, dies of dehydration and intoxication (the poor things are very sensitive)
"it's time for you to exit us" is top level punny.
Technically, that IS what Exodus is named after, Exodus meaning a large group of people leaving.
In Hebrew it's literally exit of Egypt.
Title drop.
@@erdood3235 It's actually Greek for "the road out" ("ex" = out of, and "hodos" = road). The actual Hebrew name of the book is "שְׁמוֹת Šəmōṯ," meaning "names". Genesis ("beginnings") and Deuteronomy ("second law") are also Greek names.
@@thomasrinschler6783 I'm from Israel.
I meant that the name of the *event* known in English as exodus is in Hebrew "Egypt exist"
I love your Easter egg about how, in the original Biblical Hebrew, the sea that was crossed was called Yam Suph ("Sea of Reeds"). While Yam Suph has traditionally been interpreted as referring to the Red Sea, some modern scholars dispute this.
They think it was actually a Marsh ~40 miles north of the Red Sea that had a phenomena where the water drained to one side of the marsh under certain wind conditions. Sadly it was destroyed when they built the Suez Canal
Wait, what other sea do they think it could be? The only two major bodies of water between Egypt and Canaan are the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, the latter of which not leading to any desert except the ones already within the land of Canaan. It can't be the Dead Sea or the Sea of Galilee, as they later cross the Jordan River, which connects those two so it would make no sense, and the Great Bitter Lakes weren't filled with water until the 20th century so definitely not those.
@@orbracha25 The most common alternative I have heard from Biblical scholars is the Gulf of Aqaba, which, to be fair, is still a part of the Red Sea. Other alternatives I've encountered include Lake Timash or Lake Bardawil.
@@RobertGrif I've also herd the nile river suggested.
@@zachjaeger6401 The Nile river? But it was mentioned under the name Yeor in this very story. Plus it's not on the way out of Egypt, it is the very center of Egypt in every way
Imagine being that one Egyptian who took a vacation to Cyprus or something just before Moses returned to Egypt. You come back and the economy is in shambles, the firstborn are dead, and a good chunk of the slaves are gone
3:01 Looks like the Egyptian priests figured out how to reverse the blood plague
oops teehee
@@JakeDoubleyoo i thought that was a pond and not the nile
right moses
Must be the algae.
Moses looks ready to die on that thumbnail.
Edit: Oh, my Ra! Thanks for all these likes!
Or angry
Melissa?
Death is sometimes a mercy.
2:17 "And the Horus puts it in the salad" One of my favorite bits of Egyptian myth. This is a vital part of Horus defeating his uncle, which makes it even more hilarious that it's something that feels out of a bad 2000s comedy.
Did Jake do a video on Set's lettuce?
No but he referenced it before
For people who dont know horus poured milk on then lettuce to make it icky yicky
@@CircusClownCarnival just say semen, like make it flashy so people have a reason to look it up XD
@@gabrielrussell5531 horus is also inbred squared
And set got his revenge for that this video iykyk
It's genuinely an event whenever you upload :D The Pharao's magicians had a lot of personality! Great job!
michael jackson as moses
I expect some high level visuals of a old guy walking between 2 walls of water
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I have played Pokémon for many years, and I can say with certainty that the move swallow is much cooler in its effect here than in the actual games.
As someone else who has played pokemon for years I can confirm, swallow is way more cool here
Moses really had a “WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?” moment with the Pharaoh.
I love the designs of the Magicians you made
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And Your channel entertain me the most in year of 2022
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@@JakeDoubleyooI'm already sub to his channel
Me when the local water supply turns into a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells:
"Advance political strategy called lying"😂
that sounds familiar. I can think of a certain pesron who feels that way.
@@Dungeon_Dunce2011 Perhaps Big D from Hunter: The Parenting
Big D from Hunter: The Parenting?
@@ego8330 yes
when I was younger, I was uncomfortable that every time the Pharoah was on the verge of releasing the Israelites God would harden his heart. But it wasn't until much later, and especially this video, that it occurred to me that the Plauges weren't meant to just torment the Egyptians but also send a message to both the Israelites and the people of the desert, which...unfortunately, didn't pan out so well...
Actually this is not quite correct, since earlier in the bible pharaoh hardened his heart and God wasn't mentioned. It's not magic that hardened Pharaoh's heart but God's actions, essentially every time God told pharaoh what to do pharaoh did that thing kids do when you tell them to tidy their rooms: "well I'm not doing it now"
So God "hardening" Pharaoh's heart isn't meant to be seen as the active hand of God making Pharaoh say no, but more that Pharaoh became hardened at the power of the Lord due to his own pride. God hardened Pharaoh's heart the same way that sunlight hardens clay, it's moreso the clays natural response to sunlight than the active decision of the sunlight to make the clay harder.
@@crispybacon9917"earlier in the bible pharaoh hardened his heart and God wasn't mentioned"
This doesn't make any sense as an argument. Why should God be unable to harden the Pharaoh's heart because the Pharaoh can harden his own heart?
The text explicitly says Yahweh hardens the Pharaohs heart over and over. (Exodus 4:21, 7:3, 9:12, 10:1, 10:20, 10:27, 11:10)
Indeed, it seems to make a point of emphasizing that without this action, the plagues would have changed the Pharaoh's mind. Or at the very least that the plagues actually are making Pharaoh lean toward relenting, not the opposite as you say. (Exodus 7:21-22, Exodus 8:15, 9:7, 9:34)
With all this, you might wonder why Yahweh is doing this. The text answers this several times. (Exodus 7:3-5, Exodus 10:1-2, Exodus 11:9)
"I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials in order that I may show these signs of mine among them"
In other words, it's a divine show of power.
It's true that some other sections seem to imply that the Pharaoh's heart was not hardened by Yahweh and/or that the plagues were actually intended to convince Pharaoh. ("Indeed by a mighty hand he will let them go", Exodus 6:1)
It seems that there are multiple traditions with different understandings of this in the text. Possibly, since Yahweh hardens the Pharaoh's heart more explicitly toward the end, the escalating plagues would have eventually convinced Pharaoh before the firstborn deaths, but Yahweh hardened his heart to allow his demonstration of power to reach its climax. I suspect this may be the perspective of the final editors who of course combined the traditions we have into a more or less cohesive whole.
Humans are made in the image of God. So,what happens when humans get powerful? They show off,it goes to our heads and corrupts us. If you read the Bible with the knowledge that this is God’s word and therefore inherently bias,it actually paints the picture that God is just as prideful and power-hungry as humans. The difference being that he has supreme power. My guy can see the future and still fucks things up constantly (Eden being a major example. “Oh,yeah,I’ll throw two gullible idiots,a manipulative snake who wants evil to prevail and a tree that will ruin everything in the same garden. What could go wrong?”). You can only manage that if you’re so prideful that you just think you know better.
Yeah it means that God let Pharaoh to his own heart
Never realized how much Moses's brother Aaron did in this story. It's oddly endearing how Moses actively tries to get his big brother Aaron to be involved in his prophet shenanigans.
In popular media Moses is always this charismatic leader when in reality (or the story) he was far away from it. It's shame that Hollywood tends to oversymplify stories this way. Just like they always use tall people as action heroes while a short guy being able to defeat dudes bigger than him is more exciting
Can confirm moses being reluctant is 100% historically accurate
The Sea of Reeds joke is so good
If memory serves me well, I remember that this specific part of the Bible was ancient propaganda to depict the Egyptians as evil slave keepers (which they were). But that was coming from people who they themselves WERE slave owners.
Hell, it's the whole reason why the ancient Mediterranean stereotype of Jews worshiping a donkey god was even made in the first place. It was (Hellenic-ruled) Egypt's response to a story that they considered offensive in their eyes, especially when it came from a people whose homeland was, at the time, considered a backwater piece of shit.
Dude everyone owned slaves back then
The Difference between how Israel had slaves and Egypt were night and day jews slaves were part of the family and could marry into the family of their owners and had to be treated with human rights if they were wrongfully beaten or killed the owner would be killed or beaten
And you can't also call it propaganda since Genesis depicts the first pharaoh as kind hearted and the people accommodating to the Israelites the change came with new management
@@orpheemulemo8053 of note is that there is apparently no surviving records of hebrew slaves, so either it was lost to time or egyptians genuinely did respect the hebrew people's right to worship, and just left them alone
Of course there is option three of me not doing enough research, but if you go down that route i would like to know what your source is, so i can check it myself
1:10 Just as an aside, it's interesting how every film adaptation of this forgets that Aaron also got to do miracles. The movies always have Moses do everything. Aaron kinda gets done dirty.
it doesn't make for a good story to have somebody who's gonna do all the important stuff instead of your main character yet your main character will have all the credit. Also, you don't really need both of them since they fill the same narrative role, so why not cut the character you can remove without any affect on the story? It's just practical
This is genuinely some of of the best use of a running joke I've ever seen, now you're probably thinking *WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?!?*
As a european, im ready to wait half a day to watch this (Its 4:00 am, send help)
Oof.
Prayers (literal not metaphorical) go with you.
As a Brit, this premiers at 15:00 for me (or 17:00, I have a VPN on).
Edit: 17:00
12 am in the Philippines
LOL, you nonliberated British. What was 2 days ago? 4th of July🗽🌎🦅🇺🇸 (This is a joke)
Y does it say 13 hrs ago despite it only being out for 19 mins
Me casually belting the lyrics to ever prince of egypt song throughout this series
“My god has blotted out the sun for three days!”
“…my Gods have let me own your people for 400 years.”
My God saved your people from a seven year famon that would erase you from history
And remember most of those 400 years the Israelites weren't slaves because of Joseph but until knew management arrived
@@orpheemulemo8053 Joseph wasn’t a historical figure. There’s no evidence that a seven year famine ever existed in Egypt or that a random outsider ever helped them survive it. You can watch another video by this very TH-camr explaining that Joseph’s story is obviously two separate stories spliced together.
Also, I was making a joke because there’s also absolutely no evidence that the Hebrews were ever enslaved en masse in Egypt, which means that there wasn’t actually an exodus.
@@SleepyPotterFan let's take it in joke format then I'm just saying according to the Bible which you took your source from that Egypt was saved
@@SleepyPotterFan Joseph not being a historical figure is something highly impossible since in Egypt there are litteral stone slabs with the name of the people of Israel meaning at some point jews and Egyptians were in contact
Not only that Egypt is famously known to edit there loses because they had big egos or try to eras entire kings because they did not agree to them and had multiple different dynastys
Joseph story takes place when Egypt was still young and he went by a different name
Not only that there is a dark period in Egyptian and Canaanites history in which the jews suddenly appeared as the dominant force of the region
Giving profe for theories that jews were. once canaanites
Coming back to say I really, really appreciate the seriousness and emotion Jake took with his respect of Passover. Like the entire video is just up up up up up with comedy and amazing edits, and this impending sense of doom because of Moses, but Jake’s tonal change make me emotional and really sold the gravity of the situation.
For a lot of us, Passover is never seen from the perspective of those who weren’t passed over.
Even “Prince of Egypt” sells the pain of it, but its still hard to feel bad for Pharaoh in POE, because it’s seen as a “serves you right for being arrogant, tee hee”. The Pharaoh is more angry than his despairing at the loss of his son. Even as a kid, the image of him hunched over his son’s body scowling terrified me.
But Jake is the first historian/youtuber I’ve ever heard (Catholic school kid w/hyperreligious Christian-Baptist Black family, so it’s not like I don’t know my scripture) who stressed that God literally manipulated Pharaoh into literally being stubborn and losing his son.
I feel significantly worse for both Moses and Pharaoh in Jake’s depiction of this than POE. Like you really feel his sorrow.
My heart broke when Moses walked, broken, like off like “Don’t worry…”. Even now, it’s making me emotional.
Amazing work!
Something that might help is the fact that all of this was done by God, not a murder by human hands. Since He created everything that ever exists, He is the only being with the right to take it away. So in a way, one way or another the child would have been taken by God anyway no matter what they do. Such is the nature of death. At least the child died in his sleep, not murdered in war or died because of pestilence. It is simply an acceleration of the inevitable.
you would think this would be enough to make people realize slavery is bad
bro this didn't even make the Israelites realize slavery is bad.
I’m pretty sure the pope banned slavery in Europe pretty early on but that didn’t extend to non Christians
No y'see. This was to make people realize enslaving the Israelites is bad. The Israelites enslaving Non-israelites is A-okay because God said so. 😊
Didn’t make them like almost immediately they went back to slavery when they found the promised land
Read Joshua they signed a pact with sone people then when they came to the town abd weerd told that was the town they forged the contract with they just enslaved the lot because they couldn’t brutally murder them
The Bronze Age was pointlessly barbaric
@@Abyzz_Knight where did you get that?
I have been waiting all night for this one, right off the back of a Prince Of Egypt analysis so I can laugh doubly hard at Jake’s take 😂
I love how Jake portrayed the story in a funny way but respected the original message and didnt ruin the hidden message
I love the amount of humor applied in this summary
Yay! Suffering!
( -probably my favorite part of Moses' story- )
I know yay pain!
Don't forget the pharaoh had his free will removed when god hardened his heart the entire time of the plagues until the very end. He was going to let Moses's people go free until Yahweh did that to him just to show off a fraction of his power and might to the egyptians who promptly forgot if it actually happened which it didn't... so... yeah...
2:17 Why on Ra’s green earth did you feel the need to reference THAT myth?!
Moses just being along for the ride while YWH goes on a powertrip is an underrated take.
God hardening Pharoah's heart was a dick move
It also says Pharaoh hardened his own heart. This is more than mind control,
You're just as blind as the Pharaoh
It is explained in the Bible that God gives people to their own desires when they don't listen
And also Pharoah is the same guy who ordered the murder of babies this was as much of a payback as it was a Exodus
My theory is that the Lord wanted to humiliate the egyptian gods since they're false idols and needed any excuse possible.
His main goal was to show the Egyptians that he alone is the true god of everything which is why he kept sending plagues that targeted the gods of egypt (as if saying: I slayed your gods and made them bleed)
I love your videos. You're such a great story teller and artist. 😊
Fact I find his Ad libs are crack up
@@mindripperful His ad libs are my favorite part. 😂
Cant wait to see your take on leviticus, numbers and deuteronomy, those books made me feel so bad for moses
these bible videos are so great, educational, entertaining and a teensy bit upsetting
Like the Bible!
"It's time for you to exit us." Bro what
Exit us--exodus it's a terrible pun
11:38 all those fish looked so done
The conceptions behind Exodus were so fascinating in my opinion.
These texts were written and orally told during the Henotheistic period of the Israelites. Many other gods are mentioned and attributed to in the OT. We see an example in this video. Miracles, not enacted by God, are performed by the Egyptians.
The god of the Israelites was meant to be their supreme god. Only he was worthy of worship in their eyes, but the existence of other gods wasn't denied or disbelieved.
This eventually did change though, the faith, not long after, switched to proper monotheism.
It's always fascinating to read into it all.
Idk if i said it already but I was taught (as well as other people in other schools) that moses was stuttering and that kinda made moses someone i can relate to as someone that stutters
Each time you upload about Moses it just makes me want to rewatch The Prince of Egypt. AGAIN.
I'm Jewish, religiously so. So hearing Moses scream out "what do you mean by that" to God of all entities is one of the most biblically accurate things I have ever heard.
moses is so pathetic in this i love him
I’m a Christian and these videos are beyond amazing and accurate 😅
Including the uncomfortable parts that we struggle to understand
Thank you for this!!!
That's Jake charms for me he don't try to adapt the story but to showcase how originally crazy they are ( in an educational way regarding interpretation )
12:17 in theory....40 years later
Damn, Jake's content is always nice to see pop up in my feed.
WELP! That raises some questions about "freewill" that I don't feel like grappling with right now😂😂😂😂😂😂
After having to hear these stories over and over in my childhood, it’s really fun seeing them in a new perspective. Especially with the humor being so funny.
"GET OUT OF MY HOUSE, exodus"- Hank Hill
“Well that raises some questions about free will I don’t feel like getting into right now”
Yep. To be fair,this is what I do in the Sims when I want a villain character though. “Oh,you’re apologising? No,you aren’t”. Just more proof that reality is a game of the Sims and God is the player
Top tier "Exodus" joke😂
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Well in Hebrew it is less epic name: shemot (names , because it name some of the most major figures in Judaism in this book)
now THIS is quality comedy, voice acting, story telling, art, visual comedy, and all other things i may praise for
Commenting to keep Jake on the algorithm’s good side
Wow I kinda love the idea of Moses, a famous prophet actually taking issue with God's ten plagues idea, trying his best to stop the worst from happening even if he knows it's futile in the end.
Have you heard of the Prince of Egypt? It does a good job at expanding on that
@@anikayap6777 I haven't watched it yet but I'll give it a watch!
"God is all-good"
God is Exodus: Am I?
He is what he is 🤷
@@JakeDoubleyoo 1st: I can't believe you answered! Nice! 2nd: indeed, He Is what He Is. 3rd: my particular opinion about god is not the greatest. Mainly because things like the pharaoh stone-turned heart
@@umdemuitos2005 these statements are bound in a caricature of god he is all good but he aint a pacifist
@@durrangodsgrief6503 So basically, the ends justify the means?
@@umdemuitos2005Well , No one around that time was good , even the israeliates who we're supposed to be God's chosen people were so broken that God had to take small steps to unharden their hearts , Pharaoh absolutely enjoyed all the bad things he did and never actually cared for the egyptians
Pharaoh was really like that kid who does WORSE when you scold him for his own BAD DOINGS
I can't even imagine God thought when he allowed slavery just because the israeliates couldn't live with the idea of not having them , at least they had set out rules to not be absolute torture for them , even Jesus scolded the israelites as God made incomplete laws because their heart was hard
And then Moses looks at the screen and says, "This truly was an Exodus"
Oh hey i remember that tho i also remember the pharoh saying we will bath in wine instead as a no
"And we're watchin, and we're waitin. Do, da, do, da, dooooo...."
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I think it would be cool if later on there was a video made about prophet jeremiah and his prophecies about jerusalems fall to babylon or on the book of revelation in detail. But so far these are good videos, nice job!!
The fact Moses acts a lot like me without my anxiety medication in a huge crowd makes me so happy
Bro is tickling our bawlz with this one
Moses' eye twitching and about to blow was hilarious.
One of your best videos yet, and with this good of a channel I didn't know it is even possible!
Great video as always.
So many golden nuggets throughout this entire video. Well done. Standing ovation, bravo.
2:44 A Thorthorer sounds like a wizard that just shoots clones of Thor from his fingers.
huh, with the parting of the re(e)d sea, i was always taught that one old man had to wade into the water all the way up to his head before the lord parted the sea, not that moses just did some jazz hands and it opened
"But the LORD hardened the Pharaoh's heart" makes me question how anyone could see the LORD as a good being.
Yahweh did that to triumph over Egypt with these plagues
@noelleosullivan3309
And I get that but he already triumphed the first or even the second time didn't he?
@@assymezzo Egypt messed with Israel; God promised that those who bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse Israel will be cursed. God keeps his promises; DON'T MESS WITH HIS CHILDREN!
The guys reaction to the locusts killed me lol
As a christian, I love how you did this man. This in no way felt disrespectful to my faith, probably strengthened it somewhat!
Hope you keep doing bible videos, and if by a rare happenstance you find this comment, have a blessed day! May the Lord be with you.
You know it's a banger when jake drops a video
I've always been confused regarding the Nile turning to blood. Was it the entire river or just the part in Egypt? I think it's amusing to picture giraffes thousands of kilometers away freaking out because the river is now all red
Come to think of it, the Nile flows into the Mediterrean, which connects to the Atlantic, which connects to the rest of the world's oceans. Did all of the planet's water turn to blood? If so, that's hilarious and terrifying
For conveniences sake, let's imagine that it was just the part of the Nile as crosses through Aigyptos that was transfigured.
Even though the Book of Exodus specifies that all of the water in Egypt was made blood, brother the Nile ALONE turning into blood would irreversibly *d e s t r o y* Egypt, all of the river life, the fish and others, would wash up the riverbank with their rotting corpses pilled up there as the _unimaginably horrid_ stink would set in; all of Egypt would be absent the ability to bathe and disease would run rampant; starvation sets in as the kingdom *_doesn't have a tangible harvest anymore._*
@@Boss_Isaac Plus it is God's doing, which explains the oddness of the miracles
I love how comedic and Biblically accurate this is.
swallow being an attack that can somehow be supef effective hurts my competitive pokémon bones
THIS IS SO GOOD!! the execution was legitimately beautiful! And the story was portrayed so well!!!!!! Keep up the amazing work ^_^
"So kids, can you guess WHO'S the villain of this story ? Carefull, it's tricky !"
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Amazing content. Great animation, wonderful storytelling and the most precise interpretation of the facts I've seen.
the lil detail of the boils appearing lighter or darker depending on the skin tone of the character>>>
the Apocalypse is coming but the only thing the Pharaoh care about is the economy thes Comedy Gold jake You are a genius
5:18 I’m pretty sure this line means that pharaohs heart was hardened because of his personal hate for God, not his free will being affected
If you want to check for yourself go to exodus 10
Then it would’ve made that clear. It literally states “The Lord hardened his heart”. It doesn’t say that the Pharaohs heart hardened (with no mention of God) or at least due to Pharaohs hatred for the Lord his heart hardened
@@BIGTHANKSHEESH it’s an interpretation
Otherwise, God can control our free will, which is what Satan wanted to do before being cast out of heaven. God will not affect our free will, as it destroys the meaning of life.
@@duckduel5820 define free will for me. FULLY
@@duckduel5820 explain free will in full real quick
I just wanted to say, it’s wild to see how your art and animation has evolved over time, absolutely stellar work
6:08 bro opened his mouth-
I love how the take away from this story is "god is a fkn dickhead"
How is this dude not famous yet? This is too good
Moses : so it’ll take us a couple weeks to reach the promise land right ?
*40 years later
Jake nice job on giving the characters some advanced expressions! this is really incredible nice work man! 👌🏿😤 you deserve a 1million views on these videos you rightfully deserve that man. 👍🏿
I think that Exodus is a nice window into the past, during the time when priests wanted to encourage Israelites to worship only one God. You can feel the frustration. "He is the most powerful God, why can't you see it!". From the story telling perspective it doesn't make sense that Israelites would ever go against their God in any way. They know what he is capable of. Meanwhile they seem to only moan and seek other gods. It makes more sense if you interpret the whole story as a message for its reader. "Other gods might look cool but remember - ours is the best so stop cheating on Jahwe"
Been waiting excitedly for a new episode
I like how he thanks "my mom" (his mom) in the patron list. My mom helps me out too! ❤️
The quality of Jake's work has been steadily increasing, wow!
Amazing. I love both the references to the Kemetic (Ancient Egyptian) mythology and the historical giggles about Re(e)d Sea, not to mention making fun of the nonsensical, cruel and inhuman parts of the bible never gets old (can't wait for all these stories in Judges or much sooner, when we go to Joshua and his conquests of Jericho, Ai et cetera).
Great work! I hope you enjoy making this series and it shall continue until properly finished! ^^
You left us waiting for over a month
yea
@@JakeDoubleyoo bro just responded "yea" no more context needed im staying subbed
@@JakeDoubleyoo "yea" jake Doubleyoo -july 6th 2024
This is why i am subscribed@@JakeDoubleyoo
@@JakeDoubleyoothis is what I wait for 10/10
Just got recommended this video and wow, amazing creativity, great art style, and funny jokes. I'm gonna have to watch all your videos now.
I felt so bad for that poor accountant