Moses Moments
Moses said “No thanks” to this flaming flora, but God had other plans.
What is the burning bush
This river got a glow-up from water to liquid murder.
What is the Nile
God brought the people to this mountain, where there was thunder, fire, and no Wi-Fi.
What is Mount Sinai
Parallelism in Hebrew poetry is like this: when your verse has a twin.
What is a poetic line that repeats, contrasts, or completes the first
Moses was rescued as a baby from this river. It's not just a place — it's a whole vibe.
What is the Nile
God told Moses to take these off, because he was stepping on divine real estate.
What are his sandals
Egyptians woke up to this amphibian flash mob in their beds.
What are frogs
These stone slabs were God’s first downloadable content.
What are the Ten Commandments
This type of parallelism is like your dramatic friend who says the same thing twice, louder.
What is synonymous parallelism
Before becoming God's right-hand man, Moses had this super chill desert job.
What is a shepherd
Moses' #1 excuse for not leading Israel was this tongue-tied complaint
What is “I don’t speak well” or “I’m slow of speech”
Pharaoh kept saying this phrase like a toxic ex after every plague.
What is “Okay fine, you can go — wait, no you can't”
When Moses came down from Sinai 2.0, his face did this unintentionally terrifying thing.
What is glow like a divine flashlight?
This opposite-day structure is when line 2 comes for line 1's neck.
What is antithetic parallelism
God spoke to Moses through this flaming, but not crispy, object.
What is the burning bush
God gave Moses this object that became a snake, then back again — a real party trick.
What is a staff
This final plague had every Egyptian mom texting "are you okay??" at midnight.
What is the death of the firstborn
God nearly rage-quit the Israelites and offered Moses this solo-reboot plan.
What is “I’ll destroy them and make a nation out of you instead”?
A “stair-step” structure that builds intensity like a messy group chat fight.
What is synthetic parallelism
This family member helped Moses talk to Pharaoh, basically his hype man.
Who is Aaron
This was Moses’ reaction when God got sassy with Pharaoh: "Oh great, now they're making bricks without this stuff."
What is straw
After the Red Sea drama, Pharaoh learned the hard way that Moses didn’t come to play. He came to do this.
What is split the sea and drown your army
While Moses was chatting with God, Aaron was busy making this sparkly mistake.
What is the golden calf?
When you see repeated phrases or patterns in a psalm, the poet is doing this, not just being extra.
What is using poetic structure to develop meaning or emotion
Moses did this to the Red Sea so the Israelites could walk right through it.
What is split it