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God is one of the protagonists in The Five Books of Moses. This depiction of him lead to him being the central figure of today´s three major monotheistic strands of religion. His date and place of birth are unknown. He is said to have created the earth and everything that lives on it. Jesus of Nazareth is his only known child, conceived by Holy Mary.

Early life
In his early life, God created the earth in seven days, as follows: Day 1: Creation of Night and Day Day 2: Heaven is created Day 3: Seperation of earth and water Day 4: Creation of celestial bodies and plants Day 5: Birds and marine animals are created Day 6: Creation of terrestrial animals and humans Day 7: God takes a break Adam and Eve were the first two humans God created. Whereas Adam was shaped from his environment, God created Eva from a rib he took from Adam, to give Adam some company. He gave Adam and Eve the garden Eden to dwell, but told them not to eat the apples from the tree of wisdom. After Adam and Eve, persuaded by a cunning snake, had eaten an apple from said tree, despite God´s prohibition, God got angry and threw the two out of the garden Eden. This punishment should not be the last God brought upon the family of Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve had two children, Kain and Abel. After he had slain his brother Abel, God set a mark on Kain which protected Kain from any assaults. God punished Kain in this way, so no one would kill Kain out of revenge for Abel.

Noah and God´s first genocide
In the following part of his life, God made friends with Noah. God found a very good partner in him, as he, in God´s point of view, was not as sinful as the other people who inhabited earth at this time. This passage of God´s life was also a very dark one. This is, because after deciding that Noah and his wife were the only two people who were not sinful, God decided to kill all the other people. Therefore he brought a huge flood upon the earth which drowned everyone and everything with a few exceptions. Fortunately God was able to give Noah directions to build an ark to survive the flood. So they could save Noah, his wife and one pair of all animals in the ark they built. After having committed his first genocide, God felt very bad about it and swore to never commit such a crime again. As a symbol of his remorse, he created the first rainbow.

The Tower of Babel
Although God had sworn to never commit a genocide again, he still didn´t treat the humans well after the flood. As they wanted to build a tower to visit him, namely the Tower of Babel, he invented different languages and made the construction workers speak them, so they could not understand each other.

The covenant with Abram and the case of Sodom and Gomorrah
In the next passage of his life, God made his first covenant with Abram (later to be renamed to Abraham). This covenant between Abram and God contained a promise by God to give the land of Canaan to the descendants of Abram after 400 years of oppression. After the covenant had been established, God renamed Abram and his wife Abraham and Sarah (former Sarai). After this episode, God had yet another outburst of anger. He was planning on destroying the city of Sodom and killing all the inhabitants, because, like the people before the flood, they were too sinful for him. After negotiations with Abraham, God then agreed to spare Sodom if ten righteous people could be found there. As a result of this negotiations, Lot, Abraham´s nephew, and his two daughters were spared, whereas the rest of Sodom was destroyed by God.

God tests Abraham
After the destruction of Sodom, God started to doubt Abraham´s loyalty. Therefore God made a cruel plan. He told Abraham to sacrifice his first born son Isaac to prove his loyalty to God. But this test then turned out to be a trick by God. Thus, as Abraham was about to kill his son, God sent one of his bodyguards, an angel, to stop Abraham from sacrificing Isaac. God was then completely convinced of Abraham´s loyalty.

God meets Moses
As the covenant between Abraham and God had commanded, Abraham went to Egypt, where his descendants were then enslaved for 400 years. One of Abraham´s descendants was Moses. God chose Moses to be the leader of the Israelite revolution in Egypt. Therefore, God made contact with Moses in the shape of a burning bush under the name of YHWH. He commanded Moses, out of the burning bush, to ask Egypt´s Pharao to free his people.

The Pharao´s denial and the ten plagues


File:William de Brailes - The Eighth Plague- Locusts (Exodus 10-12-15) After the Pharao of Egypt had denied Moses´ request, God desided to punish the Egyptians. This was a very cruel operation by God again, as he himself made the Pharao deny Moses´ requests every time Moses asked the Pharao to free his people. As punishment, God brought ten plagues on Egypt. These were as follows: 1. The water of the river Nile was transformed to blood. 2. Frogs were infesting everything in Egypt. 3. Lice infested everything in Egypt. 4. Swarms of flies were all over Egypt. 5. A plague which destroyed all of Egypt´s livestock. 6. Everyone was infected with boils. 7. A storm with fire came upon Egypt. 8. A locust swarm was all over Egypt. 9. There was darkness in all of Egypt. 10. Every firstborn Egypt son was killed.

God´s guidance over the fleeing Hebrews
After God had brought the ten plagues upon Egypt, the Israelites i.e. Abraham´s decendants were freed from Egyptian oppression. Moses then tried to lead them into the land of Canaan which God promised to give Abraham´s descendants in his covenant with him. It was not long before the Egyptian Pharao changed his mind again and followed the Israelites with an army. To help the Israelites flee from the approaching Egyptians, God split a sea into two halves so they could walk through the see. When the Egyptians then tried to take the same way, God, in yet another semblance of cruelty, drowned them by putting back the sea in its normal place. After he had taken care of the Egyptians, God then continued to help the Israelite people on their way to the land promised by him. He provided them with water and manna, a special kind of bread.

God pronounces the Ten Commandments
At one point on their journey to the promised land, the Israelites reached Mt. Sinai, where God first spoke to all of the Israelites. He appeared to them in the form of a cloud and pronounced the Ten Commandments. The Israelites accepted the laws given to them by God and therefore God renewed the covenant which he had established with Abraham, which had promisds the descendants of Abraham i.e. the Israelites the land of Canaan. Whereas the other Israelites were only allowed to see God in his cloud form, Moses was allowed to speak to him directly on Mt. Sinai. In their conversation, God gave Moses a specific set of rules regulating the lives of the Israelites from then on. After Moses had returned to his people to inform them about the rules God had given them, God wanted to meet Moses again and summoned him to Mt. Sinai again. At that time, Moses was allowed to bring his brother Aaron and the elders of Israel with him. They then all dined in God´s presence on Mt. Sinai. Furthermore, God told Moses to command the Israelites to build the Ark of the Covenant and a tabernacle. In a third meeting with Moses, God gave him the Ten Commandments written in stone tablets. During this meeting, the other Israelites created a golden calf as a replacement for God. This made God very angry and he almost committed his second genocide, if Moses had not persuaded him to spare his people. In a final conversation between God and Moses, God dictates the Ten Commandments to Moses again, as he had smashed the first two stone tablets in an outburst of anger about the Israelites´ infidelity to God.