Lesson video

Hello, and welcome back.

I'm Mr. Hutchinson.

And this is RE, it's Religious Education.

We're learning all about religion and we're learning about the fascinating religion of Judaism, the religion of Jews.

I love learning all about this.

If you haven't already watched the first lesson about Judaism, then you can go back onto the website and you can watch that first lesson.

Because for the rest of us, we've learned all about Abraham, the father of Judaism, the first person to make a covenant or a promise with God.

And we learn all about how Abraham with his wife, Sarah, left Ur in Mesopotamia and walked all the way to that new land of Canaan.

Very, very important person Abraham and you know all about him.

So well done.

There are thousands of children around the country who have learned all about Abraham.

And we're about to learn with me today, all About another very important man.

A very special man.

He's a very special man in lots of religions, and his name is, Moses.

And we're going to be learning about a story today of when Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt.

Moses, so the word Israelites here, by the way, the word Israelites, it means Jews or it means sometimes, so there are different words used for followers of Judaism.

When we're talking about 3000 years ago, 4000 years ago, the first people to follow this religion like Abraham and Moses, they're sometimes called Hebrews, or they're sometimes called Israelites.

Whereas today, we tend to call them Jews, but it means the same thing.

So Moses had to go to Egypt and Moses had to lead the Israelites, the people of Abraham's religion out of Egypt.

Why did he have to do that? Well, let's find out what today's lesson looks like.

This is what our lesson looks like today, we're going to be learning about the Prince of Egypt.

That's Moses.

He was a prince, he was a prince in Egypt, how did he become a prince? We're going to be learning about how we got a call from God, just like Abraham, God spoke to Moses.

We're going to be learning about how Moses went to the Pharaoh and said, ♪Let my people go ♪ he didn't actually sing it.

But that's what he said to the Pharaoh.

He said, "Let my people go," so he could lead them out of Egypt.

We're going to be learning all about how Moses got the 10 commandments from God.

And we'll finish with our quiz.

So all of these are things that Jews believe and other people believe this as well other religions because Moses is important other religions as well.

In this lesson, make sure you're organised, you should have already done the quiz, you will need your pencil or pen, you will need a coloured pen if you've got one.

And of course you need something to write on because there are some sentences to write today.

Let's get started.

"The Prince of Egypt." We learnt in the last lesson all about Abraham, didn't we? We learn about Abraham who travelled from Ur all the way to Canaan and set up that country.

He had a child, what was his child's name? Can you remember his son's name? Can you remember it? Say it? Well done if you remembered Isaac.

He had a son called Isaac.

And when Isaac grew up, Isaac had a wife and Isaac had a child as well.

An Isaac's child was called Jacob.

Now God said to Jacob, you actually are going to be known as, we're going to give you another name.

You're going to be called Jacob but also Israel.

He gave me another name that was Israel.

And so that's why we call the country in Canaan, Israel.

That's where that area is now called Israel because that was Jacob's name.

He had 12 Sons, and one of them was called Levi.

And Levi had a daughter, and her name was Jochebed.

And Jochebed had a son and guess what, her son's name was? Moses, who we're learning about today.

So you can see that Moses is related to Abraham.

He's a descendant of Abraham.

Abraham is his great, great, great grandfather.

Is that right? Great, great, great grandfather.

Yes, maybe that's right.

So Abraham and Moses are related in the same area, but something, something happened in the area that meant that the Israelites that meant that those people the descendants of Abraham had to leave Canaan, they had to leave the area, and that's because there was a great drought.

So if we go back to our map, we know that the area that we're looking at is that green area that the Middle East the Levant, so that put bring up this map for you.

And Abraham set up his new nation that God promised him in that red area there, the Levant.

But you can see near to the Levant, there is this area, Egypt and it's got the river Nile running through it.

Point to the river Nile trace your finger up here.

Now because the river Nile is there, this area you can grow lots of crops around it all the time.

But this area there was a big drought.

There's a big drought about the same time that Jacob was alive.

And that meant that they all of the people that were living there, all of the Israelites had to leave Caanan, and leave Israel and go to Egypt.

And they started to do really well in Egypt.

They're all living in Egypt and the Israelites were doing really well and they were doing too well.

So the Egyptians became jealous.

And the Egyptians became so jealous that the Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, said, "I want all of the babies of the Israelites to be killed.

All the baby boys, I want them to be killed." He sent his guards out to kill all the babies.

Now Jochebed, Moses's mother did not want Moses to be killed by the guards.

So she had a clever plan.

I'm going to tell you the story now of how Moses avoided being killed as a baby and became a prince.

Because Moses' mother hid Moses in a basket in the river.

You can see there that there are some bullrushes that's another name for like kind of grass.

So there are bullrushes, and Moses is in this basket.

Hey, can you see look closely? Can you see it's like a kind of Chest or an Ark.

And that's where Moses is.

And Moses mother, there she is.

She's put Moses in the river so that he will not be killed by the guards.

And she knew the palace was nearby.

And her plan worked because Moses floated down the river to the palace.

And he was discovered by a princess.

And the princess found Moses and she adopted him as her son.

And because she was a princess that made Moses a prince, a prince in Egypt.

Moses grew up in the palace as a prince.

And one day he was walking around and he saw a guard, here's a guard.

And he saw a guard beating an Israelite, the Israelites had been enslaved by the Pharaoh, because he was jealous of how well they were doing.

So he turned them into slaves.

And Moses saw that they've been enslaved.

And he saw this guard being so horribly cruel.

And what did Moses do? Can you see what he's got in his hand there? He's got a dagger, and he killed that cruel guard.

Moses murdered the cruel guard.

Because he murdered him, He hid his body, but because he murdered him, he had to run away.

And so Moses ran away and became a shepherd.

You can see here, he's got a sheep, he's got his stuff.

He run into the desert and he became a shepherd.

That's the story of Moses as a prince in Egypt, his early life before he went on to become a shepherd.

Now I'd like to see if you can remember that.

So I'm going to give you a task now to see if you can remember the story of Moses.

So I'm going to put the pictures back up for you.

You can see we've got, Moses being put in the basket in the river by his mother.

Then we've got him being discovered by the princess.

Moses murdering that cruel guard.

And then Moses having to run away and become a shepherd.

So here's your task, I would like you to write a sentence for each part of the story, you need to write one, two, three, four sentences to tell the story of Moses.

And if you write those sentences, then it will help to stick the story in your head cause you'll have taken time to write all out and you know the story of Moses.

So pause the video now and write one sentence for each picture.

Great, well done.

So Moses is in the desert, he's a shepherd.

And something then happens, it's going to change his life forever.

Moses gets a call from God, just like Abraham got a call from God, Moses gets a call from God.

And let's get back to this picture here of Moses in the desert.

Let's take a closer look at it.

Because you might have noticed something.

I'm going to make it bigger for you so you can have a closer look.

You might have noticed that over here, there's like flames coming up.

There's a fire, and the fire is coming from this bush.

There's a burning bush.

And this is a very famous story in the Tanakh.

Remember the holy book for Jews the Tanakh, this Holy Scripture which written down all about their religion.

Let's read some of the Tanakh.

Now I know you're really really clever.

So you can read Tanakh with me.

I'm going to put the words of Tanakh up so that we can read all about when God spoke to Moses.

"Moses, Moses," and Moses said, "Here I am," the voices coming from the bush, "Do not come any closer." God said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham." We know about Abraham, "The God of Isaac," we know about Isaac, "And the God of Jacob," we know about Jacob.

At this, Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

You can see him hiding his face here.

It's like the it's so bright and so brilliant that he's trying to shield his face from that burning bush.

The Lord said, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt.

I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.

So God is saying to Moses, I know that the Israelites are now slaves in Egypt and I'm worried about them, I'm concerned about them.

So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the home of the Canaanites, and now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.

So now go, I'm sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt." That is why Moses has to take the Israelites out of Egypt, God tells him to.

He says, these are my people, that Abraham's people, they're my people, and they're being punished by the Pharaoh and they're being treated as slaves.

So you need to go and you need to lead them out Egypt, that's your mission.

That's what God told Moses to do.

Let's have a little question to see if you can remember the important facts from that.

Why did God send Moses back to Egypt? He'd fled.

Why did he send him back? Did he send him back so that Moses could overthrow the Pharaoh and become the new leader in Egypt? Did he want him to lead the Israelites out of Egypt and back to Canaan.

Did he want Moses to help to build the pyramids.

Or did he want Moses to go and ask the Egyptians if they'd like to come and live in Canaan.

Point to the answer that you think is correct.

Purple, green, blue, pink, which one's correct.

Well done if you said that Moses his mission from God was to lead the Israelites out of Egypt and take them back to the land of Canaan.

And he said it would flow with milk and honey.

They will been no drought anymore, they will be able to live there.

So that's what Moses had to do.

He had to go to Pharaoh and say, "Let my people go." And he went to Pharaoh.

And he told Pharaoh, God has told me that my people need to leave Egypt.

And Pharaoh said, I don't believe you.

I don't believe that God said that.

So, Moses took his stuff, and he threw it on the floor and it turned into a snake.

But Pharaohs still didn't believe him, and he still wouldn't give the people up.

So Moses spoke to God.

And God said, "That's okay.

I've got a plan." He said, I will send 10 plagues.

And so 10 plagues struck Egypt.

There were all sorts of different plagues and the river turned into blood, a plague of locusts that ate all of the plants.

A plague of frogs came down 10 awful plagues.

But the pharaoh still wouldn't let the Israelites go until the last plague came.

And in the last plague, God sent an angel of death.

This is what Jews believe.

God sent an angel of death, and that Angel killed all of the children of the Egyptians.

Now, you might be thinking, hold on didn't that Angel of Death also killed the children of the Israelites? If it was just going around killing children? How did it know to not kill the Israelites children? Well, that's because God gave a special message to Moses and he said, I want you to take a lamb and sacrifice it.

Take the blood from the lamb, and paint the blood on your doors.

Mark your doors with the lambs blood, and that will tell the Angel of Death to pass over the door.

And so Jews still celebrate a festival which we'll learn about in a later lesson called Passover.

And it's called Passover because the angel of death passed over their doors and didn't kill the children in those homes, because it was God's people, the Israelites.

So, once the angel of death had come, then the Pharaoh said, Okay, I don't want any more of this to happen.

You can have your people you can have the Israelites you can go.

Then Pharaoh changed his mind.

So Moses had begun leading his people out of Egypt.

And Pharaoh changed his mind and sent his army after Moses.

And Moses had reached the Red Sea.

He reached the sea, and his people couldn't get across the sea, its too deep, and he could see in the distance, Pharaoh's army coming.

So Moses took his stuff, put it in the Red Sea, and then Jews believe something amazing happened.

The Red Sea parted.

The Red Sea parted into two huge columns so that the Israelites can walk across.

So they walked across.

And that army of the pharaoh came when they came, the waters came back together and crushed together, drowning all of the soldiers of the Pharaoh, so that Moses and the Israelites could have escaped.

That's the story of Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt.

Now, once they're out of Egypt, they were wandering around the desert, and they wandered around the desert for a long, long time.

While they were there, Moses continued to speak to God.

And one of the most important things that happened is God gave Moses the 10 commandments.

Moses went up to a mountain called Mount Sinai, he walked up to speak to God and God said, right, my people are back now.

You've got my People back we're in the desert.

Before we go back to Canaan, there are some rules, okay, it's a new covenant, there are some rules that you need to follow.

I'm going to give you 10 rules you need to follow.

And these are my 10 commandments.

So before we look at what God said, his 10 commandments I'm interested in what would your 10 commandments be.

If you are giving 10 rules that all people had to follow your 10 rules, they have to follow those rules.

What would they be? So I've got to like stone tablets here because that's what the 10 commandments of Moses were put on.

Onto this question.

If you had to make 10 rules or commandments that everyone had to follow all of the time, what would they be? Write down your 10 commandments now? Great.

Please ask your parent or carer to take a photo of your 10 commandments and tweet them so that I can see them @OakNational #ONAYear2, and I'll be able to read your 10 commandments I'm very very interested in what your 10 commandments would be.

Let's find out what the 10 commandments that God gave to Moses were.

There's a lovely picture here of both by a famous artist called Rembrandt.

And you can see that Moses and he's got his two stone tablets that he brought down from Mount Sinai from God saying, "These are my 10 commandments." And these were God's 10 commandments.

Four of them were about him he said, "Do not worship any other Gods." just like he said to Abraham.

"There's only one God, Me.

So don't worship any other gods." "Do not make any idols." An idol is something that you worship that isn't God.

So it could be a little like statue.

God said, don't make any of those, you should only worship me.

"Don't misuse my name." Don't say my name in vain.

"Keep the Sabbath holy." Have one day, where all you're doing is worshipping me, that's called the Sabbath.

And then there are some other rules.

He said, Everybody should honour their mother and father, they should respect their mother and father.

So do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not lie, and do not covet.

If you covet something is when you're jealous of something that somebody else has.

They were Moses's these 10 commandments, I wonder if they were different or similar to yours.

What do you think of those commandments? So that's the story of Moses.

Okay, that's the story of Moses.

Now, we know about that story from the Tanakh.

And Jews believe that that story is true.

They believe that all of these events really happened or most Jews believe that.

Some other people say there's just a story, it didn't really happen like that.

And that's really the interesting thing about religion.

People believe different things and what's really important is that we respect other peoples beliefs.

We're really tolerant of other people's beliefs.

And what I find really interesting is just learning about what other people believe, and finding out what's really important to them.

And so that's why we're learning about Judaism.

I would love to see your work from today.

So please do send it through.

You can do that by asking your parents or carers to tweet @OakNational, and #ONAYear2 if they take a photo, and if they put that on Twitter, then I will be able to see it and read it.

Do not forget to do your final quiz.

It's so important that you quiz and I'm going to see you next time and we're going to have another lesson on Judaism.

We're going to learn more about the beliefs and the holy texts and the places of worship, got loads more to learn.

You did an awesome job today.

So well done.

Don't forget to tune in for the next lesson so that you can complete your learning on Judaism and I look forward to seeing you there.

Bye bye.