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Begin Typing VigilStories that have 'character,' that shed light upon the present from the past, and, above all, that possess religious interest, must find a place somewhere. If, then, to reverence for God and kin and country we of this age add reverence for the very past as it was, we owe it to these memorials of an eventful period of the pre-Christian age to sift out those that have more of fancy, to appreciate in them the good that is there instead of reading into them what we think better but which only came later, and to set them, as best we may, in their true order and their right relations.
Many of the stories deal with persons, and of these Moses stands out pre-eminently, the mass and variety of material showing how deep a mark he left on his time, and reducing other figures, Aaron, Miriam, Jethro, Hur, Joshua, Nadab, and Abihu, to relative insignificance. His cradle in the bulrushes (2:1-10) preaches God's care for His own. His early championship of the oppressed (2:11-14) proves his impulsive sympathy. His flight to Midian (2:15) betrays his spiritual ancestry. His courtesy to women wins him (2:16-22) home and wife. And so the list might run on. Other stories deal with Israel, or its component tribes.
The Torah is presented here with the first six books of the Nevi'im. Together they constitute the earliest history of the Abrahamic faith and it peoples.