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THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME III BIBLE TIMES AND
CHARACTERS FROM THE EXODUS TO THE DEATH OF MOSES
BY LOUIS GINZBERG

TRANSLATED PROM THE GERMAN MANUSCRIPT BY PAUL
RADIN
REVISER AND PROOF-READER OF VOLUME III, DOCTOR
ISAAC HUSIK

To MY MOTHER ON THE OCCASION OF HER SEVENTIETH
BIRTHDAY
PREFACE
"When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a People of
strange language, Jacob was His sanctuary and Israel His dominion.
Jewish legend attempts to describe how God's sanctuary, the religion of
Israel and His dominion, the beginnings of Israel as a nation, arose in
the time between the Exodus from Egypt and the entrance into the Holy
Land.
Moses is regarded not only as the greatest religious guide of Israel, but
also as its first national leader; he is "the wisest (If the wise, the father
of the prophets," as well as " king in Jeshiurun, when the heads of the
people and the tribes of Israel gathered together." hence his unique
position in Jewish legend, neither Abraham, the friend of God, nor
Solomon, the wisest of all men, nor Elijah, the helper in time of need.
can lay claim to such a position.
Great religious and national institutions like the Sabbath, the sanctuary,
and many other " commandments of God revealed to Moses " stand in a
special relation to his life and work. The sanctification of the Sabbath
became quite a living thing to him through the miracle of the Manna,
and the first sanctuary was actually erected by Moses. The life of
Moses ceased, therefore, to be a thing of the past and became closely

interwoven with the every-day life of the nation.
The most natural way for the popular mind to connect existing
conditions with the past is the symbolic method. The present volume
contains, therefore, a number of symbolic explanations of certain laws,
as, for