Jesus and I forgive you. Technically that one is only covered by the "do unto others" clause anyway, and minor transgressions are common with that one. But if you're an evangelical you can just say you were proselytizing and trying to save your neighbors souls, and then it's a wash. 👍 Besides ... making people laugh actually appears in both the secret list of "The Ten Suggestions," and "The Seven Vital Mitzvahs." Funny that two items are repeated on both lists, and both of those represent causing an externally induced involuntary physiological response. (If you know what I mean... and I think that you do... 😏 )
First of all 6:45 Israelite slavery is not in any way progressive and even if you prove to me that it is it’s still slavery which is a disgusting practice only done by moral failures. Second of all 5:53 the sabbath isn’t a day off it’s a day where you’re required not to work which is a bad thing because that means no making fires, no gathering food, (which you even show in this video) and no long journeys, which means you can’t explore for fun and because of the distance bathrooms had too be at no going to the bathroom either. The second one I’m ok with since it’s a joke but actively and openly endorsing slavery is a disgustingly immoral thing to do I know one subscriber doesn’t make a difference but if you’re actually a moral person one comment hopefully should.
Next episode: The Israelites :Are we there yet? Moses:No. The Israelites :Are we there yet?! Moses:No! The Israelites :Are we there yet?! Moses:No!!! 40 years later! The Israelites :Are we there yet? Moses:No. The Israelites :Are we there yet? Moses:Yes, but I won't be. Here you go Joshua, their your responsibility now. Joshua: What?!
I work in IT and I've never related to someone as much as I relate to Moses in this video. Half my work is repeating the same things to people again and again all the while being exasperated by them.
You're noticeably getting better and better with each video, Jake. Superficially, this might still be the same "style" as your first Greek mythology video, but you've come so far since then! I'm seriously impressed by the creative choices in every new upload. God blasting his commandments down from the mountain had me laughing out loud 😆
As a Mexican 32 yo old guy from a small town I can say Jake doesn't get the popularity he deserves. Also I crack up everytime god uses discord functions .. is genius
He is easily one of the most important and influential, as well as enigmatic figures in the old testament, and even the entire Bible. He spoke to God directly, face to face, and gave the Jewish people the laws they would follow for millennia. And his brother Aaron was the original High Priest of Israel, and most of the following priests would descend from his lineage. Like if we were gonna rank overall importance of characters for their role in the story... not counting the father / YHVH? (And Mary is probably an extension of Jesus by necessity lol) Moses would probably get #2, right after Jesus. Even Solomon and King David can't quite say that... (Or Noah, Enoch, Abraham... all the heavy hitters from the early days lol) Hell Noah preserved God's creation and saved us from complete destruction... but Moses talked to God face to face (... or as close as you could get to that, more or less... lol) he led the chosen people out of slavery in Egypt to the place where they would become a kingdom of their own, and gave them the laws they would live by for thousands of years. He's kind of a big deal. lol He also seemingly performed repeated miracles... something very few figures in the Bible are known to do. He is a super interesting dude, and a massively important character to the story, and the religion. Some people have speculated that maybe the historical Moses had a relatively high position in that society, maybe even in pharaoh's court... (Similarly some people have speculated that IRL the biblical character of Joseph might have actually been a Pharaoh! ...there's another really interesting character BTW) There are actually quite a few ties between the ancient Israelites and ancient egyptian society and culture. It's interesting stuff and produced a couple of the more interesting biblical figures... and Egyptian thinking (including on spiritual matters) may have had a very direct influence on early Jewish religion... (Not to mention it's said that Jesus also spent some time in Egypt... so there could be secondary Egyptian influence all the way into the new testament, tbh. Personally I think egypt and India are probably where Jesus did some of his most productive thinking and realizing... but that's a whole other rant. lol) *tl;dr* Totally. Moses was a real mensch.^(lol)
Ankur, how was he cruel. He kept telling people what not to do and they kept doing it. How hard is it not sacrifice your kid by throwing them alive in a fire to other gods. The Ten Commandments are not that hard.
Fun Bible fact: When St. Jerome was translating the part about Moses's face glowing, he saw that the Hebrew word used, qaran, is based on a Hebrew root meaning "horn". So, he chose to translate the word into Latin as corunta, which literally means "horned" but at the time could also mean "glorified". Over time, this context was lost, so we have lots of medieval art showing Moses with horns on his head 😅
I am not sure how serious the horn thing is or if it is just a mistranslation, but if not, it would be interenting to show the people that think any kind of horns is satanic. Ignoring how horns were a symbol of masculinity and power in many cultures
Given that Moses then forms a Secret Police and orders followers to kill their family it seems warranted. Now I have new doubts.... when you say 'horn' do you mean 'cow horn' or 'blowing horn' which make fancy noises which glorify others. Some horrible mistranslated of "how face was glorious like a trumpet horn" or something.
"Mark my words verbatim, what follows shall be the sacred law of your people, if you obey my voice and keep my covenant you will be my treasure among all the peoples of the world, a kingdome of priests and a holy nation.... We shall begin with property law" Holy shot that got me🤣
There is a scene in a children-friendly version of this where after Moses strikes the rock for water, a little girl starts striking another rock saying, “I prefer some milk.”
I was always told that the desert was chosen because "its the best way to build resolve and trust, they would have to rely on each other to secure food and water" but no, the literally had food magically appear 6 days a week and water whenever they need it
They still had to trust God to provide it. Reading the Bible as an adult and understanding what it is trying to say is a afternoon of “what are you doing” God just told not to do that” “ how are you this dumb, just stop”. Then you realize we humans haven’t changed a bit.
@MrSophire I understand trust in God, but I was specifically told that the struggle was the whole reason God even sent them out into the desert, which isn't supported by the text, everytime they struggled as a society, Moses had a conversation with God, and then it was solved. I'm not saying there's no good interpretation and I agree that people really haven't changed at all, just look at the golden calf for that, it's just that I feel like I've been fed an objectively wrong interpretation my whole life
@@ampisbadatthisbeing fair god being nice to us will be the best era of our history pre modern time considering all the suffering we will experience (as a Jewish aka yehudi or judean in Hebrew)
I commented something similar on your previous Exodus video but it bears repeating. You have gotten Moses more accurately than most modern media according to Orthodox Jewish belief. The level of frustration Moses felt at every complaint is so freaking accurate!!! Thank you so much for these!
As a service worker….this is on point… Me: welcome to Starbucks how can I help you Customer(this actually happened): hey do you guys sell coffee? Me: goes to the back and passes the mic to my boss
Hur was not just a guy. He was Moses's nephew thru his sister Miriam by her husband Nachshon, Chieftain of the tribe of Judah. Hur was killed when he yelled at the people for wanting to make the Golden Calf.
I love that you've gotten far enough now that you're now covering more under-discussed areas of the narrative! The Exodus from Egypt narrative itself is great but it's nearly always focused on to the point that what comes after is neglected, so it's great to have a video covering those areas.
Is there any way you'd do Gaelic mythos in a video? I feel like the spear called "gae bolga" that pierces you 30 times with one stab would have some way to make a joke out of it.
Moses: ok everyone. Don't pray to false gods like the Egyptians we just escaped from People: ok Moses we won't Moses:(turns around) People: all hail the gold cow statue Moses:(deep sigh) DEAR GOD WHY? god: because Moses. Because
@@Gront517 bad logic there kid. on your Edge lord phase? You do know when they believe in god they get support and saved. God literally mocked every Egyptian faker gods with the plagues showing they don't exist. If they didn't believe in Moses and god their first Borns would have been taken away. If it was the Greeks he'd have drained the ocean(did that too). Disfigured people (did that too) or slow/speed up time to mock posiden zues and chronos
This is something for the far future, if ever: But I'd love for you to cover Hindu mythology at some point. It's the major religion I struggle learning about the most, just because their canon of stories is so rich and interconnected. I also imagine the multi-armed, multi-colored deities would lend themselves to fun character designs, just like with the egyptians. 🤗
@@luckluca8982 also called the Bhagavadgita. I guess, religious chroniclers love wisdom compilations (Book of Proverbs, Hávamál). If you will, even Mao Dse Dong's Little Red Book falls into this category.
Moses walks in to his psychiatrists office and says’ Doc you got to help me, One night I dream I dreamt I was the Tabernacle and the next night I dreamt I was the tent of Meeting’ The doctor say’s,’ relax, you’re two tents.’
Well considering god would literally be there and it is deadly to anyone but a prophet and the high priest (also known as the Hebrew word cohen, Aharon and his decedent are the cohen family which literally means the priest family) it would be deadly and or maddening experience
Since Moses is 83, I'm going to imagine he and his father in law Jethro have the same age. Age gasps marriages aren't really uncommon, especially in ancient times,
Well jethro is important figure in making the civilian laws of nation so god probably made him live longer (also Druze (a Levantine people group and religion)believe that he is a prophet of god and they are decedent and or reincarnation of his tribe, and god give long life to his prophets)
You are probably the first person I saw to describe Moses as becoming increasingly DONE with the idraelites and I love it. Like- guys, come on, learn your lesson god damn it you are not dumbasses And before anyone says anything, I AM a christian, I know this stuff
@@MrSophiredude, that ain’t what the command meant, it was mainly about using Gods name in something horrendous, like say a genocide, and proclaiming that it was for or God told you to do it. The meaning has been distorted over time by people misinterpreting the text.
This is ridiculously amazing. My mother is a pastor, and I've been a huge theology nerd my whole life, with a special love for the Torah. I cannot tell you how much my family and I cackled while watching this. I have had Catholic school teachers that explain this far less succinctly. It's astounding how much respect Jake puts into this while still making super on-point jokes (the oxen laws and design plans are so REALLL) ❤
Debating with god is a common thing in Judaism. That's why the collective noun for rabbi is "an argument." A further fun fact: the ten commandments aren't actually commandments, strictly speaking. The original Hebrew is actually "the ten utterances of god." Or, to put it another way "the ten things god said that one time."
It's so interesting to read the comments. I grew on these stories and now I see people my age reacting to them, thanks Jake! And congrats for your 420k Subscribers
Jake, your videos have always been awesome, but my dude you have been killing it lately - loving the tweak to the art style. Your voiceover is SO good right now and your writing is super funny!
I love the way you’ve interpreted Moses’s personality. I hope you do the New Testament at some point. Jesus was so fed up with the 12 disciples for most of it and it would be funny to see in this format.
hey! successful theology student here: the golden calf is similar to statues from nearby religions that where believed to have been ridden by gods, so it's possible that the whole thing was essentially the people attempting to force God to come down to them sooner. regardless of if it's an attempt to force God's hand or just straight blasphemy, it's still insulting as hell. the 3000 men as probably not 3000 men. it could have even been as low as 3 families source: i vaguely remember my first year of university
Your video captures my thoughs when i read exodus on a whim once. The hebrews complaining and starting to doubt God not even months after witnessing every single miracle grew tiresome. And then the golden calf happened and i died inside. In many was they are the perfect representation of humanity, doing stupid shit they were explicitly told not to do just because some time passed after being told not to.
You know, I would also be a bit grumpy if I dropped 10 massive plagues on Egypt, split the sea, provided direction as a pillar of smoke and fire, dropped food all the time, and just generally explicitly showed my power and helpfulness, and then had the people I was helping make a golden calf and begin worshipping it.
So some scholarly context on the golden calf: There's some evidence that other near-eastern tribes worshiped a YHWH-like god and associated him with a bull. In this context, the golden calf is less the Israelites turning to a random god when Moses turns his back and rather rejecting God trying to be personally present in their midst in favor of a more comfortable and distant relationship they are used to. Hardly the only reading of this story, but one I like as it's much more understandable on the israelites' side.
"Near-eastern tribes" being Canaanites, and the god you referring to being either El or Moloch. They didn't turn to a "random" god, they turned to a popular god that was worshipped by the local Canaanites (which were also a separate people from the Israelites, but would live in proximity). It'd be akin to a Greek switching from Zeus worship to Ra worship.
N@@koderamerikaner5147 Not canaanites, the worship of Yahweh come from the south of canaan, he wasn't in the canaanite pantheon like El. The midianites were in northwest arabia and it is here Moses learned about Yahweh.
@@coyotte2296 Like I said, the Canaanites and Israelites were a separate people, but the Israelites turned to worshipping Canaanite gods which is the idolatry they committed. Otherwise, it wouldn't be idolatry if they were worshipping the god of their ancestors. YHWH worship comes from Mount Seir and the highlands to the east of Canaan.
Moses as an administrator…🤣🤣🤣 “I told you the way to do it…why…Lord have mercy…why?!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 The instant “we have been forsaken” is hilarious and accurate! 🤣🤣🤣
Moses destroyed the original tablets of God's commandments God: Nah have another two, no biggie God's people worshiping something because they thought it represented the Lord God: Oh hell no
@@halfwaydead3087 Moses was gone for a month and they tried worshiping Yahweh in the way all other gods would be worshipped. They had less than no reason to think god would be so insecure
Great video man! Something you you forgot to mention and a flaw in your telling is about the rock with the water. God told Moses to speak to the rock and ask it to give them the water that is inside it, but moses thought it was stupid, and probably fed up with God's convoluted rituals just to get some water. In my personal interpertation Moses found it humiliating to talk to a rock. Anyway, he hit the rock instead of talking to it, which produced the water but God grumbled on the side over how he didn't follow his rules. And God certainly keeps a grudge, because unlike what he promised Moses, when they eventually reach Israel God forbids Moses to enter, exactly because of the rock incident. So I'd say it's kind of an important plotpoint. Other than that, I didn't notice anything wrong. Though to be precise the tribes Moses split were not random groups. they were grouped up based on their decendancy to the twelve sons of Israel. So each tribe was named directly after the equivilant son. Also you didn't mention the part where Moses meets Joshua for the first time, or how Jushua isn't a Hebrew. But that's fine, guess you cut that for time. It is kind of important though because later on Joshua becomes the leader of the Hebrews when invading Cnaan, despite not being a Hebrew himself.
hello jake! i saw some things that where difrent in your taling of the storys than what i hard, and sence my first languge is hebrew i think i can help you with the hebrew if you want
Nice now we Get to see Moses loses all hope and sanity trying the lead the people God saved from slavery but made the entire journey feel worthless due to their own stupidity and lack of gratefulness…
A lot of respect to Moses for being brave enough to try and succeed in guilt tripping god and that guy that kept saying we’re all going to die kept me laughing till my sides hurt.🤣
Growing up Catholic, I thought Old Testament God was mean, reading the stories as an Adult, I stopped seeing it that way. Still Catholic and wondering why God hasn’t smit us yet. Kinda happy he hasn’t but we are no better the the Israelites.
Worshiping their gods by sculpting them was the #1 most common way of doing it. The Bible never said they worshipped a non- Yahweh god. It’s super easy to interpret it as saying they portrayed Yahweh as the calf but didn’t know he hated statues yet
@@JaxdoesArtSomething I learned recently is that many ancient gods were sometimes represented as a bull, including YHWH. In fact there’s actually an ancient description of an Israelite name that roughly translates to “YHWH is a bull”. (Tangentially related, goddesses were often depicted riding a bull, something that the story of Io was probably referencing.)
Hope he mentions how Aaron was forced to make it and blames the israelites for being terrible people. I laughed reading that, just causual racism against your own people.
Well if you read the actual passages it basically says: remember you were once slaves , also if you take slaves they are basically unpaid workers that you can’t abuse and need to take care for and free in 7 years . Which is : A) better treatment of slaves from anyone at the world at the time B) never been followed by the south in the US chosen instead to follow disconnected random lines which had nothing to do with slavery even though the book have very clear rules about it C) still presented as bad thing to do while basically saying if you still do it be nice as possible about it
@@chimera9818 Those protections ONLY applied to fellow Israelite men who were enslaved If you were a foreigner, or even an Israelite women, you WOULD be enslaved for LIFE, and treated as chattel property like the slaves in the US south. Further, your children would ALSO be slaves
@@PRODEMOCRACYNEWSwell even in the case of non Israelite you still needed to keep them in harmed and care for them (and it was still presented as bad thing to do because you know : Israelite and Jewish (or in the Hebrew word yehudim aka the Hebrew equivalent to judean because we view ourselves as the descendent of the people of the tribe of judea )today need to remember our ancestors were slaves , so it is kinda like saying : it is bad thing to do and you shouldn’t but if you end up slave owners be nicest possible).
“Worse. It’s Dubstep” Fun Fact, when that portion of Moses and Joshua coming down the mountain was taught to me, the Golden Calf Party Music was 90s EDM
Great vid! I love your interpretation of Moses. There is a satirical Israeli show called 'The jews are coming' and they have a similar interpretation of Moses.
Moses- God's first IT worker.
And manager
And advertisminr manager
And hr rep
And Customer support
Moses- have you tried turning it off and on again?
I would now like to apologize to any of my neighbors who heard me screaming the ten commandments at the top of my lungs a couple weeks ago.
Lmao
Jesus and I forgive you.
Technically that one is only covered by the "do unto others" clause anyway, and minor transgressions are common with that one.
But if you're an evangelical you can just say you were proselytizing and trying to save your neighbors souls, and then it's a wash. 👍
Besides ... making people laugh actually appears in both the secret list of "The Ten Suggestions," and "The Seven Vital Mitzvahs."
Funny that two items are repeated on both lists, and both of those represent causing an externally induced involuntary physiological response.
(If you know what I mean... and I think that you do... 😏 )
It's ok jake
You should do the the divine comedy next 🤟
First of all 6:45 Israelite slavery is not in any way progressive and even if you prove to me that it is it’s still slavery which is a disgusting practice only done by moral failures.
Second of all 5:53 the sabbath isn’t a day off it’s a day where you’re required not to work which is a bad thing because that means no making fires, no gathering food, (which you even show in this video) and no long journeys, which means you can’t explore for fun and because of the distance bathrooms had too be at no going to the bathroom either.
The second one I’m ok with since it’s a joke but actively and openly endorsing slavery is a disgustingly immoral thing to do I know one subscriber doesn’t make a difference but if you’re actually a moral person one comment hopefully should.
Next episode:
The Israelites :Are we there yet?
Moses:No.
The Israelites :Are we there yet?!
Moses:No!
The Israelites :Are we there yet?!
Moses:No!!!
40 years later!
The Israelites :Are we there yet?
Moses:No.
The Israelites :Are we there yet?
Moses:Yes, but I won't be. Here you go Joshua, their your responsibility now.
Joshua: What?!
I can see it going on like that
Another day another manga reader spoiling the story for the anime watchers 😠 (jkjk)
@@ReiisinInaba sorry 😜
"IT'S A PROMISED LAND SO WE'LL GET THERE EVENTUALLY...i promise...
...for five minutes...could you stop being yourself...FOR FIVE MINUTES?!"
@@pnguinkillr3091 trust me bro... it does...
I work in IT and I've never related to someone as much as I relate to Moses in this video. Half my work is repeating the same things to people again and again all the while being exasperated by them.
"Remember the first rule of the covenant: RTFM"
- Moses, probably
my teachers with my classmates:
God bless you.
look at the bright side of thing my fellow IT brethren. You already know the answer to their questions, which just makes your work easier.
You're noticeably getting better and better with each video, Jake. Superficially, this might still be the same "style" as your first Greek mythology video, but you've come so far since then! I'm seriously impressed by the creative choices in every new upload. God blasting his commandments down from the mountain had me laughing out loud 😆
Agree agree agree!!
As a Mexican 32 yo old guy from a small town I can say Jake doesn't get the popularity he deserves. Also I crack up everytime god uses discord functions .. is genius
You've made Moses such an interesting character who I had never considered before
He is easily one of the most important and influential, as well as enigmatic figures in the old testament, and even the entire Bible.
He spoke to God directly, face to face, and gave the Jewish people the laws they would follow for millennia.
And his brother Aaron was the original High Priest of Israel, and most of the following priests would descend from his lineage.
Like if we were gonna rank overall importance of characters for their role in the story... not counting the father / YHVH? (And Mary is probably an extension of Jesus by necessity lol)
Moses would probably get #2, right after Jesus. Even Solomon and King David can't quite say that...
(Or Noah, Enoch, Abraham... all the heavy hitters from the early days lol)
Hell Noah preserved God's creation and saved us from complete destruction... but Moses talked to God face to face (... or as close as you could get to that, more or less... lol) he led the chosen people out of slavery in Egypt to the place where they would become a kingdom of their own, and gave them the laws they would live by for thousands of years.
He's kind of a big deal. lol
He also seemingly performed repeated miracles... something very few figures in the Bible are known to do.
He is a super interesting dude, and a massively important character to the story, and the religion.
Some people have speculated that maybe the historical Moses had a relatively high position in that society, maybe even in pharaoh's court...
(Similarly some people have speculated that IRL the biblical character of Joseph might have actually been a Pharaoh! ...there's another really interesting character BTW)
There are actually quite a few ties between the ancient Israelites and ancient egyptian society and culture. It's interesting stuff and produced a couple of the more interesting biblical figures... and Egyptian thinking (including on spiritual matters) may have had a very direct influence on early Jewish religion...
(Not to mention it's said that Jesus also spent some time in Egypt... so there could be secondary Egyptian influence all the way into the new testament, tbh. Personally I think egypt and India are probably where Jesus did some of his most productive thinking and realizing... but that's a whole other rant. lol)
*tl;dr*
Totally. Moses was a real mensch.^(lol)
The story of Moses, the original "I WAS GONE FIVE MINUTES"
To be fair, Old Testament God was quite the embodiment of "OR ELSE !!!"
@@Kaito57 and much of the OT can be summed up as "yall had ONE job"
God in old testament was really cruel I don't how he became a loving father in new testament
@@ankur1533 New Marketing Team lol
Ankur, how was he cruel. He kept telling people what not to do and they kept doing it. How hard is it not sacrifice your kid by throwing them alive in a fire to other gods. The Ten Commandments are not that hard.
Fun Bible fact: When St. Jerome was translating the part about Moses's face glowing, he saw that the Hebrew word used, qaran, is based on a Hebrew root meaning "horn". So, he chose to translate the word into Latin as corunta, which literally means "horned" but at the time could also mean "glorified". Over time, this context was lost, so we have lots of medieval art showing Moses with horns on his head 😅
I am not sure how serious the horn thing is or if it is just a mistranslation, but if not, it would be interenting to show the people that think any kind of horns is satanic. Ignoring how horns were a symbol of masculinity and power in many cultures
thank you for explaining, i had noticed his horns in medieval art and wondered.
Michelangelo's Moses has horns.
Thats the origin for the weird belief that jews have horns lol
Given that Moses then forms a Secret Police and orders followers to kill their family it seems warranted.
Now I have new doubts.... when you say 'horn' do you mean 'cow horn' or 'blowing horn' which make fancy noises which glorify others. Some horrible mistranslated of "how face was glorious like a trumpet horn" or something.
Portraying Moses's sojourn as a road trip with 1 dad & 30,000+ complaining kids was genius
27,000 now on account 3000 of them were slain for their apostasy/unsanctioned orgy.
Are we there yet?
To be fair, that's kind of how it was portrayed in the text lol
"I swear to God, If you don't stop whining, I'm going to turn this people around and bring you back to Egypt!"
-Moses, probably. Something BC
60,000 iirc
I love how realistically pissed Moses gets
I don't blame Moses for becoming a villain.
🤭
"Mark my words verbatim, what follows shall be the sacred law of your people, if you obey my voice and keep my covenant you will be my treasure among all the peoples of the world, a kingdome of priests and a holy nation.... We shall begin with property law"
Holy shot that got me🤣
I feel so bad for moses ngl all throughout exodus to deuteronomy everyone was so annoying to him
worse he didn't even get to go to the promised land
@@justedu42 spoilers!! 🙄
@@justedu42that’s btw because Moses hit the stone , it was meant to be milk but because he hit it, it ended up being water
Right before his death he made sure to tell them that they will fail him again
@@mrparticles8124 The book has been out for 4 thousand years
Hell yeah it's Hur! The best character in the whole series!
There is a scene in a children-friendly version of this where after Moses strikes the rock for water, a little girl starts striking another rock saying, “I prefer some milk.”
It was meant to be milk but because Moses hit the stone water came out
I was always told that the desert was chosen because "its the best way to build resolve and trust, they would have to rely on each other to secure food and water" but no, the literally had food magically appear 6 days a week and water whenever they need it
They still had to trust God to provide it. Reading the Bible as an adult and understanding what it is trying to say is a afternoon of “what are you doing” God just told not to do that” “ how are you this dumb, just stop”. Then you realize we humans haven’t changed a bit.
@MrSophire I understand trust in God, but I was specifically told that the struggle was the whole reason God even sent them out into the desert, which isn't supported by the text, everytime they struggled as a society, Moses had a conversation with God, and then it was solved.
I'm not saying there's no good interpretation and I agree that people really haven't changed at all, just look at the golden calf for that, it's just that I feel like I've been fed an objectively wrong interpretation my whole life
because its en route from egypt to the holy land + their disobedience during the journey got them punished by getting lost in the desert for 40 years
@@bestuan Hilariously in circles, given the real travel time through said desert.
@@ampisbadatthisbeing fair god being nice to us will be the best era of our history pre modern time considering all the suffering we will experience (as a Jewish aka yehudi or judean in Hebrew)
I grew up Anglican and read/heard the passage about God announcing the commandments. Now I have the perfect representation to go along with it.
I commented something similar on your previous Exodus video but it bears repeating. You have gotten Moses more accurately than most modern media according to Orthodox Jewish belief. The level of frustration Moses felt at every complaint is so freaking accurate!!!
Thank you so much for these!
Wait. Is there something in the Talmud and/or a midrash that says so?
As a service worker….this is on point…
Me: welcome to Starbucks how can I help you
Customer(this actually happened): hey do you guys sell coffee?
Me: goes to the back and passes the mic to my boss
Hur was not just a guy. He was Moses's nephew thru his sister Miriam by her husband Nachshon, Chieftain of the tribe of Judah.
Hur was killed when he yelled at the people for wanting to make the Golden Calf.
Moses: "Can't you all just not be yoursevles.... FOR FIVE MINUTES"
I love that you've gotten far enough now that you're now covering more under-discussed areas of the narrative! The Exodus from Egypt narrative itself is great but it's nearly always focused on to the point that what comes after is neglected, so it's great to have a video covering those areas.
You wouldn't BELIEVE how hard it is to follow simple instructions.
I wouldn't even have survived 30 minutes with those people
They didn’t have the instructions yet
That’s why Christians completely thrown out all of god instructions and act like Jews doing it before they known is so terrible
Is there any way you'd do Gaelic mythos in a video? I feel like the spear called "gae bolga" that pierces you 30 times with one stab would have some way to make a joke out of it.
isn't that just like. a rake.
@@juanjuri6127 what the fuck kind of rakes do you have
Excuse you, it's a VERY SHARP rake!
Wasn't it more of a spear that ripped your inside apart?
30 STAB WOUNDS! You didn't wanna leave him a chance, hih?!
Moses: ok everyone. Don't pray to false gods like the Egyptians we just escaped from
People: ok Moses we won't
Moses:(turns around)
People: all hail the gold cow statue
Moses:(deep sigh) DEAR GOD WHY?
god: because Moses. Because
They are a stiff necked people
@@Gront517their god is the reason they’re out of slavery
Are you sure about that? Because as far as I know, saving the chosen people from slavery is enough tl be worshipped.@@Gront517
@@Gront517 bad logic there kid. on your Edge lord phase?
You do know when they believe in god they get support and saved. God literally mocked every Egyptian faker gods with the plagues showing they don't exist. If they didn't believe in Moses and god their first Borns would have been taken away.
If it was the Greeks he'd have drained the ocean(did that too). Disfigured people (did that too) or slow/speed up time to mock posiden zues and chronos
they don't have faith and patience
I love this take on Moses as an exasperated manager who's just so done with it all.
When you read this part of the Bible, you can fee this sentiment oozing from the page.
This is something for the far future, if ever: But I'd love for you to cover Hindu mythology at some point. It's the major religion I struggle learning about the most, just because their canon of stories is so rich and interconnected. I also imagine the multi-armed, multi-colored deities would lend themselves to fun character designs, just like with the egyptians. 🤗
The 10 parter of Krishna's and Arjuna's pre-war chat...
If it's the Mahabharata he's gonna take 10 episodes before even getting to Bhishma 😭
@@luckluca8982 also called the Bhagavadgita. I guess, religious chroniclers love wisdom compilations (Book of Proverbs, Hávamál). If you will, even Mao Dse Dong's Little Red Book falls into this category.
Never in my life did I think Yahweh reading the 10 commandments would make me laugh but here we are
“Oh, I bet they *always* followed god’s directions.”
*”OHOHO, YOU’D THINK SO WOULDN’T CHA?”*
Moses walks in to his psychiatrists office and says’ Doc you got to help me, One night I dream I dreamt I was the Tabernacle and the next night I dreamt I was the tent of Meeting’ The doctor say’s,’ relax, you’re two tents.’
_Badum-tish_
Well considering god would literally be there and it is deadly to anyone but a prophet and the high priest (also known as the Hebrew word cohen, Aharon and his decedent are the cohen family which literally means the priest family) it would be deadly and or maddening experience
10 hours? But I want it now.
It is now
Has this ever happened to you?!
@@TheRealRehman stinky
@@Parkercurr but first, tell the audience have we ever met before?
Me
The Bronze Age Collapse seems like a really unfun time to be alive.
Welp, it soon became very fun.
"You're all on thin ice!"
"What's ice, LORD?"
Since Moses is 83, I'm going to imagine he and his father in law Jethro have the same age. Age gasps marriages aren't really uncommon, especially in ancient times,
Well jethro is important figure in making the civilian laws of nation so god probably made him live longer (also Druze (a Levantine people group and religion)believe that he is a prophet of god and they are decedent and or reincarnation of his tribe, and god give long life to his prophets)
He lived to be 120.
@@videogollumer Jethro?
@@tonycorona8501 No, Moses.
You are probably the first person I saw to describe Moses as becoming increasingly DONE with the idraelites and I love it. Like- guys, come on, learn your lesson god damn it you are not dumbasses
And before anyone says anything, I AM a christian, I know this stuff
Ha ha you blaspheme in a comment about people not listening to God.
@@MrSophire what
G- d-- it, is using the lords name in vain thus blasphemy 😀
We learned it that’s why we are still here (the Hebrew word for Jewish literally is yehudi or man from the tribe of judea)
@@MrSophiredude, that ain’t what the command meant, it was mainly about using Gods name in something horrendous, like say a genocide, and proclaiming that it was for or God told you to do it.
The meaning has been distorted over time by people misinterpreting the text.
I love how Joshua was wounded in the battle and then after had a scar where the wound was. That was a great touch!
"...We shall begin with property law." Now I have to clean the coffee I sprayed on my screen.
Your delivery is pure genius.
This is ridiculously amazing. My mother is a pastor, and I've been a huge theology nerd my whole life, with a special love for the Torah. I cannot tell you how much my family and I cackled while watching this. I have had Catholic school teachers that explain this far less succinctly. It's astounding how much respect Jake puts into this while still making super on-point jokes (the oxen laws and design plans are so REALLL) ❤
Debating with god is a common thing in Judaism. That's why the collective noun for rabbi is "an argument."
A further fun fact: the ten commandments aren't actually commandments, strictly speaking. The original Hebrew is actually "the ten utterances of god." Or, to put it another way "the ten things god said that one time."
613 Commandments we have, according to Maimonides
@@cratorcic9362 613 mitzvot is universal jewish denominations the rambam is stating the obvious.
@@cratorcic9362the number existed before him he just made the clear list of it
@@chimera9818 Correct.
You uploaded on my wedding day!! Now it’s truly perfect
Congratulations! Hope you both have a long and happy marriage. 😀
It's so interesting to read the comments.
I grew on these stories and now I see people my age reacting to them, thanks Jake!
And congrats for your 420k Subscribers
Reminds me of that Family Guy bit where Peter as Moses says: Commandment number 1: Shut the hell up.
5:14 This made my afternoon
"My blasphemy senses are tingling"
When he said that imagined of Warhammer imperium imediately sprung in my mind
Can't wait for Joshua to get his own video! He is an underrated prophet!
Jake, your videos have always been awesome, but my dude you have been killing it lately - loving the tweak to the art style. Your voiceover is SO good right now and your writing is super funny!
0:11 does he say “Mara”, very clever
Hwat
@@knoobiez Mara means bitter in Hebrew
@@lifeisagame3156 actually just mar in this case but yes
*Marah
@@videogollumer there is no correct way to write it in English
I love the way you’ve interpreted Moses’s personality. I hope you do the New Testament at some point. Jesus was so fed up with the 12 disciples for most of it and it would be funny to see in this format.
I absolutely love the character designs of these, the art style is amazing and I especially like the accuracy of Aaron’s getup near the end
hey! successful theology student here:
the golden calf is similar to statues from nearby religions that where believed to have been ridden by gods, so it's possible that the whole thing was essentially the people attempting to force God to come down to them sooner. regardless of if it's an attempt to force God's hand or just straight blasphemy, it's still insulting as hell.
the 3000 men as probably not 3000 men. it could have even been as low as 3 families
source: i vaguely remember my first year of university
also sometimes the glowing of moses's face is mistranslated as being horned, which is why in some art moses has horns
Cool
😂
Lol I'm Jewish and I love your videos on the Torah! Very good summary 😊 I can't wait to see more of these videos!
I'm Christian and I also love his videos on the Pentateuch!
I HELPED JAKE (a little) ON THIS ONE WEE-HAW
Your video captures my thoughs when i read exodus on a whim once. The hebrews complaining and starting to doubt God not even months after witnessing every single miracle grew tiresome. And then the golden calf happened and i died inside.
In many was they are the perfect representation of humanity, doing stupid shit they were explicitly told not to do just because some time passed after being told not to.
That’s the point. When reading the Bible, you realize we humans are so over due for a Smiting. Kinda grateful for that.
@@MrSophire you can always trust that in mythology if you think gods are bad, then you haven't seen humans they have to deal with
@@rainbowmothraleo I don't buy that because the Greek Gods were jerks, the humans were jerks because of their Gods
@@MrSophire You realize that God is an evil monster who makes imperfect people and blames them for being imperfect
The bible is my favourite comedy
A DIVINE comedy if you will
Wait till you get to Elijah
It's just so DIVINE 😂😂
its funny because we are the joke and the punchline
You know, I would also be a bit grumpy if I dropped 10 massive plagues on Egypt, split the sea, provided direction as a pillar of smoke and fire, dropped food all the time, and just generally explicitly showed my power and helpfulness, and then had the people I was helping make a golden calf and begin worshipping it.
Exactly and people say that God in the OT is cruel when in reality he's quite merciful
So some scholarly context on the golden calf: There's some evidence that other near-eastern tribes worshiped a YHWH-like god and associated him with a bull. In this context, the golden calf is less the Israelites turning to a random god when Moses turns his back and rather rejecting God trying to be personally present in their midst in favor of a more comfortable and distant relationship they are used to.
Hardly the only reading of this story, but one I like as it's much more understandable on the israelites' side.
"Near-eastern tribes" being Canaanites, and the god you referring to being either El or Moloch.
They didn't turn to a "random" god, they turned to a popular god that was worshipped by the local Canaanites (which were also a separate people from the Israelites, but would live in proximity). It'd be akin to a Greek switching from Zeus worship to Ra worship.
@@koderamerikaner5147 Moloch probably in the Hebrew Bible refers to any deity that requires child-sacrifice
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Not canaanites, the worship of Yahweh come from the south of canaan, he wasn't in the canaanite pantheon like El.
The midianites were in northwest arabia and it is here Moses learned about Yahweh.
@@coyotte2296 Like I said, the Canaanites and Israelites were a separate people, but the Israelites turned to worshipping Canaanite gods which is the idolatry they committed. Otherwise, it wouldn't be idolatry if they were worshipping the god of their ancestors.
YHWH worship comes from Mount Seir and the highlands to the east of Canaan.
5:15 LAUGHED MY DEPRESSION OFF 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Moses as an administrator…🤣🤣🤣 “I told you the way to do it…why…Lord have mercy…why?!”
🤣🤣🤣🤣
The instant “we have been forsaken” is hilarious and accurate! 🤣🤣🤣
The "one ___ later" cards friggin slew me
These just keep getting better. Keep it up Mr. Doubleyoo!
God screaming with the horns absolutely killed me that's hilarous.
7:49 The 746th pokemon?
This is literally the best animated Bible series ever.
It's weird to see common things like mysterious wonders
Bible is really book about volcanology.
6:45 - love the "hmm"
Jethro is DA GOAT of all Father In Laws
The best depiction of Moses since Mel Brooks
5:19 Not the spongebob's alarm sound😭😭
Moses, the dad of 3000 annoying kids 😂
*Eldest brother, though not literally.
God is the real father.
@@videogollumer That is more accurate 😂 or even funnier to think 😂
Moses destroyed the original tablets of God's commandments
God: Nah have another two, no biggie
God's people worshiping something because they thought it represented the Lord
God: Oh hell no
Kinda like when he had Saul raze Amalek for a crime they were 400 years removed from
Well they did break his first commandment
@@halfwaydead3087 before they knew it was a commandment
@@JaxdoesArt in hindsight they should have been more patient and....well it's the isrealites they weren't the most obedient
@@halfwaydead3087 Moses was gone for a month and they tried worshiping Yahweh in the way all other gods would be worshipped. They had less than no reason to think god would be so insecure
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11:30 40 years later....
Moses disappearing for 40 days and then having to wear a veil sounds a lot like Moses dying and Aaron having to find some dude to pretend to be Moses.
1:59 lol I laughed so hard the first time I saw this!
Can't wait to see Joshua and the Promised Land
these videos have no business being so good
I love how you put way too much detail in the most minor of things like making Moses's eye twitch while being angry at Arron at 10:00
Bro, thank you so much for this. This was the best video explaining the Bible I’ve seen. Very very thankful God bless.
Joshua looks very accurate in this video
Yay! More videos! Love the slight Archer-esque facial movements that the characters have when looking in a certain direction
Great video man!
Something you you forgot to mention and a flaw in your telling is about the rock with the water.
God told Moses to speak to the rock and ask it to give them the water that is inside it, but moses thought it was stupid, and probably fed up with God's convoluted rituals just to get some water. In my personal interpertation Moses found it humiliating to talk to a rock.
Anyway, he hit the rock instead of talking to it, which produced the water but God grumbled on the side over how he didn't follow his rules. And God certainly keeps a grudge, because unlike what he promised Moses, when they eventually reach Israel God forbids Moses to enter, exactly because of the rock incident.
So I'd say it's kind of an important plotpoint.
Other than that, I didn't notice anything wrong. Though to be precise the tribes Moses split were not random groups. they were grouped up based on their decendancy to the twelve sons of Israel. So each tribe was named directly after the equivilant son. Also you didn't mention the part where Moses meets Joshua for the first time, or how Jushua isn't a Hebrew. But that's fine, guess you cut that for time. It is kind of important though because later on Joshua becomes the leader of the Hebrews when invading Cnaan, despite not being a Hebrew himself.
That's later in Numbers.
hello jake! i saw some things that where difrent in your taling of the storys than what i hard, and sence my first languge is hebrew i think i can help you with the hebrew if you want
Fucking legend
True it is a legend. It's all it is, seeing how none of it ever happened.
@@DragongodZenosdo we have proof of anything happening from the beginning of time to now who care let people believe what they wank
@@DragongodZenos rent free
Never Stop Clowning! You’re the GOAT!
Nice now we Get to see Moses loses all hope and sanity trying the lead the people God saved from slavery but made the entire journey feel worthless due to their own stupidity and lack of gratefulness…
1:13 “man” “uh” OMG I just got the joke.
Guys, does anyone want to build golden idols with me while the prophet is away?
I’ll do it if Moses doesn’t yell at me..
Can we have a Rave too?, I want to dance with golden glow sticks.
Glad to see the animation getting better Jake, keep it up :]
I think the Israelites just had the memory of a gold fish.
is very good I'm addicted to this channel👍
You should continue this series, cuz there’s a lot to make fun of in Numbers & Deuteronomy
Honestly my favorite Sabbath activity is checking these out before church. Great stuff.
A lot of respect to Moses for being brave enough to try and succeed in guilt tripping god and that guy that kept saying we’re all going to die kept me laughing till my sides hurt.🤣
Oh how quickly we forget the provision of the Lord and how he has delivered us
Indeed...
Imagine having the literal god of everything save you and your first reaction is complaining and worshiping a golden calf
Thats the fallen nature of humans for you..
Growing up Catholic, I thought Old Testament God was mean, reading the stories as an Adult, I stopped seeing it that way. Still Catholic and wondering why God hasn’t smit us yet. Kinda happy he hasn’t but we are no better the the Israelites.
@@MrSophire exactly brother🙏
Worshiping their gods by sculpting them was the #1 most common way of doing it. The Bible never said they worshipped a non- Yahweh god. It’s super easy to interpret it as saying they portrayed Yahweh as the calf but didn’t know he hated statues yet
@@JaxdoesArtSomething I learned recently is that many ancient gods were sometimes represented as a bull, including YHWH. In fact there’s actually an ancient description of an Israelite name that roughly translates to “YHWH is a bull”.
(Tangentially related, goddesses were often depicted riding a bull, something that the story of Io was probably referencing.)
Dude this channel progressed so much. i'm not only talking animation but also voice acting and script writing!
Hope he mentions how Aaron was forced to make it and blames the israelites for being terrible people. I laughed reading that, just causual racism against your own people.
(and then a casual 3000 dead right afterward)
It's like when you do bad something but blame your brother when your parents come because he "forced you to do it".
Jews are just that terrible apparently
What's even funnier is he says that the gold was just put into the fire and it turned into a calf itself. Like, okay Aaron whatever you say...
@@wannabe_scholar82 "It was a miracle of the Lord our God!!!!!"
Moses spent 40 days making tablets just to destroy them as soon as he gets back 😂
"The slave parts are so progressive..." as any bible apologist knows.
Well if you read the actual passages it basically says: remember you were once slaves , also if you take slaves they are basically unpaid workers that you can’t abuse and need to take care for and free in 7 years .
Which is :
A) better treatment of slaves from anyone at the world at the time
B) never been followed by the south in the US chosen instead to follow disconnected random lines which had nothing to do with slavery even though the book have very clear rules about it
C) still presented as bad thing to do while basically saying if you still do it be nice as possible about it
@@chimera9818 Those protections ONLY applied to fellow Israelite men who were enslaved
If you were a foreigner, or even an Israelite women, you WOULD be enslaved for LIFE, and treated as chattel property like the slaves in the US south. Further, your children would ALSO be slaves
@@PRODEMOCRACYNEWSwell even in the case of non Israelite you still needed to keep them in harmed and care for them (and it was still presented as bad thing to do because you know : Israelite and Jewish (or in the Hebrew word yehudim aka the Hebrew equivalent to judean because we view ourselves as the descendent of the people of the tribe of judea )today need to remember our ancestors were slaves , so it is kinda like saying : it is bad thing to do and you shouldn’t but if you end up slave owners be nicest possible).
That line had a very sarcastic undertone in the video, and rightly
3:55 even right now, there’s no doubt they still deviate what the Lord forbad.
Thank the internet for that.
“Worse. It’s Dubstep”
Fun Fact, when that portion of Moses and Joshua coming down the mountain was taught to me, the Golden Calf Party Music was 90s EDM
Great vid! I love your interpretation of Moses. There is a satirical Israeli show called 'The jews are coming' and they have a similar interpretation of Moses.