Chapter 3: The Beginning of the Hebrew Suffering

Seeing this scene, both Amon and Adros felt a little interesting. The two of them did not show their divine bodies, and walked into the crowd like two mortals.

They didn't say a word in the crowd, but listened to their discussions, and they got a rough idea of what had happened.

The middle-aged man who escaped was also the adopted son of an Egyptian princess, who was originally a slave, but because he was born, he was found by a princess bathing by the Nile, and because of his cute appearance, he was adopted by the princess.

From then on, the baby, who was named Moses, had a different life from his people.

Speaking of Moses' people, they called themselves Israelites and wandered from other gods, but all the Egyptians called them Hebrews.

For among the Hebrews there was a wise man named Joseph, who helped one of the Egyptian pharaohs of his time to overcome the famine, and allied himself with the pharaohs to send an army to the city of Avalis, and drove out the few Hyksos and freed the Egyptians there from foreign rule.

From that time on, many Egyptian pharaohs, in gratitude for Joseph's contributions, allowed the Hebrews to settle and live on the land of Egypt, just like the Egyptians, and to be indistinguishable from the Egyptians.

From then on, the Hebrews settled in a place called Goshen in the northeastern part of Egypt, where they had lived for three hundred years. During this time, their numbers grew rapidly and filled the land of Goshen. Even in other parts of Egypt, there were Hebrews everywhere.

But the Hebrews, after all, were different from the Egyptians in that they worshipped a mysterious deity, although this mysterious deity never appeared. Their children are circumcised from an early age, which becomes a mark of their authenticity.

Crucially, this people has a magical power that can always make Egyptian women who marry them turn to their gods.

This made the pharaohs of Egypt dissatisfied, and finally a few decades ago, Amenhotep IV unexpectedly ascended the throne and became the head of all the pharaohs.

He changed his name to Akhnatun (meaning "servant of Atun" or "glorious soul of Atun"), touted the previously obscure sun god Akhtatun as the supreme god, forbade the worship of other gods, attacked the priestly power of the god Amun, and moved the capital to Amarna in central Egypt, naming him Ekhtatun (meaning the horizon of Atun).

This Amenhotep IV did not contribute to the affairs of the state, and his change in belief in the gods was revised, and after his death, the kingdom was relocated, and the god Amun regained reverence, and the belief in the god Atun was once again extinguished.

Almost all of the laws made by the pharaoh were abolished, with one exception, the strict rules imposed on the Hebrews, which were retained.

Time has passed, and Joseph's contribution to Egypt has disappeared into history with the dynasty he helped. For Pharaoh today, he is extremely worried about the growing number of Hebrews, fearing that in the event of a future war, the Hebrews will turn their backs on Egypt and unite with their enemies against them.

Amenhotep IV then ordered the Hebrews to do the most difficult slavery work, in order to use suffering to limit their population. Unexpectedly, however, the Hebrews, who were suffering more and more, spread throughout Egypt.

The pharaoh devised another way and ordered two special midwives to deliver the Hebrew woman, and to kill a boy if she was a boy when they gave birth, and to keep her alive if she was a girl.

The two midwives seemed afraid to do the task and did not do as the Egyptian pharaoh commanded, sparing the boy's life. They told Pharaoh that the Hebrew woman was too strong and that she had received the news that she was going to give birth, and that they had already given birth before they arrived.

Finally, Pharaoh could only say to his people, "Throw the boy born of the Hebrews into the river, and keep all the girls."

Moses was born in this context, but fortunately he did not have to bear the hardships that his people had to bear from birth, but instead received the teachings of various learned men in the Egyptian court.

At this time, Egypt, because the door of the divine domain was wide open, all kinds of characters appeared in Egypt, and it can be said that Egypt was in the center of the civilizations of the various divine domains that blended with it.

With the death of the princesses adopted by Amenhotep IV, Moses' status as a prince was naturally not recognized by his successors, but this did not affect Moses in the slightest to become a wise man in the city of Thebes.

However, this wise man was not as popular with the Egyptians as the other wise men, and the Egyptians had more of a heartfelt dislike for him.

This Hebrew, who was taught by the Egyptian court, did not forget his Hebrew roots, and he was busy fighting for his slave people everywhere, and he had lived to be forty years old, but he did not even have a wife and children.

One day he went to see his people and observe their enslavement, for Pharaoh's decree against the Hebrews at the time of Moses' birth had not yet been reversed. When Moses saw an Egyptian bullying a Hebrew, he was so angry that he killed the Egyptian and buried him.

Moses thought that no one knew about this, but when he came to the gate of the temple of Amun to reconcile the dispute between the two Hebrews, the Hebrews pointed out that he was a murderer.

Now all the onlookers of the Egyptians were like a pot exploding, and Moses had gone around to help the Hebrews get better treatment, and although they were not satisfied, they more or less understood what he was doing.

But this time it was different, Moses killed the Egyptians for the sake of the Hebrews, that is, in his heart, the Hebrews had a higher status, and everyone blamed Moses and wanted to send him to Pharaoh's palace so that Pharaoh could judge him.

When Moses saw that the matter was revealed, he knew that if he brought it here again, it would definitely end badly. He hurriedly rushed through the crowd, strode forward, and fled outside.

This time, the Egyptians, who knew the wise Moses, also realized Moses' force, and he escaped under the pursuit of several priests of the god Amun.

Amun listened coldly to the discussion of the people around him, and also watched Moses' escape with cold eyes, and then smiled at Adros next to him: "Some small things even alarmed the Lord of the Stars to come and watch. ”

When the two gods first met, Adros introduced himself as the Lord of the Stars. Amun, the sun god, has no problem with this name, because almost all gods never consider the sun and moon to be one of the stars.

Adros looked at the Hebrews who were still doing coolies in the distance, and asked the god Amun, "What is the origin of these Hebrews?"

Adros could be said to know a lot about the ins and outs of the Hebrews, but he wondered how much Amun, the presiding god of most of Egypt today, knew about that deity.

God Amun hesitated for a moment before he said, "I don't know the specifics, their clan came to Egypt when we fought with the eastern gods, and their origin is not very clear. But these people claim that their ancestors were created by a creator God, but this creator God is all-knowing and all-powerful, and has promised to protect them. However, the last time Atun wanted to test the power of this god, he began to treat this tribe harshly, and the rumored creator did not appear. ”

"Since he is the creator god, doesn't he have his own god's domain? Egypt, Kaos, Babylon, etc., are all places opened up by the creator god, and they have their own gods. ”

"Speaking of this, I also incarnated into their tribe, inquired about everything about this god, and found that this creator god only opened up a kingdom called the Garden of Eden, and there was no divine realm. And after they went down to the Garden of Eden, a place called the land of Canaan that they once lived in did not seem to be the domain of God. Amun God also looked puzzled, and then whispered his guess: "Is it because this so-called creator god only has the ability to open up the kingdom of God and creation, and it is not enough to open up the realm of God?"

Regarding Amon's speculation, Adros was noncommittal, and Adros was not clear about the current strength of that god. But he knew that in a few decades, the gods of Egypt would be able to experience the power of the Creator.

After thinking about it, Adros summoned Sisyphus next to him and instructed him: "Go with the fleeing Hebrew and help him out of danger if he is in danger." In due time, declare to him my name, the stars and the way, the truth and the direction. ”

Sisyphus was ordered to leave, but Adros was relieved to stop him and give him his sword, leaving him fearless. This saber was used by Adros to depict the Star Dou Great Array in the stars, and after years of training, he now has the power of Zeus's thunderbolt spear, Poseidon's trident, and Hades's double-strand fork.

Especially with this long sword in Sisyphus, he can always sense where he is, and if necessary, he can come to his aid.

Seeing Sisyphus leaving at Adros's order, Amun was very strange and said to Adros, "What is the Lord of the Stars going to do, if you want to save the life of that Hebrew, I will give an oracle directly to Pharaoh and the priests." If you want to preach your name among the Hebrews, I can give you all these slaves as slaves, and why do you do that?"

Hearing this, Adros smiled faintly: "These are not what I want at the moment, I just want to see if I can find their mysterious god through this unique Hebrew." ”

"I am afraid that this is difficult, for decades ago, when Atun drove my sacrifice away and ruled over Egypt, he reduced the Hebrews to slavery and slaughtered them, and the god did not show up, let alone now. ”

Adros shook his head and smiled, that's what you don't know, the importance of this prophet. But there is no urgency in this matter, when the time comes, the god will appear, and he will need to see how strong he is, and whether he is a friend or foe. And the god Amun in front of him looks so polite, but who knows what he thinks in his heart?

At the same time, Adros also showed a little interest in the god Atun, who had only ruled Egypt for a few decades and the temple was overthrown, and hurriedly asked Amun. 10