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Moses
Moses Title Card
Snoop Dogg as Moses
Character information
Birth name מֹשֶׁה (pronounced Moshe)
Nickname(s) Moses
מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּינוּ (pronounced Moshe Rabbeinu) (translated as "Moshe our Teacher")
ܡܘܫܐ (pronounced Mushe) (Syriac name)
موسى (pronounced Musa) (Arabic name)
Mωϋσῆς (pronounced Moyses) (Greek name)
Born 1391 BC (biblical account)
Goshen, Lower Egypt
Died 1271 BC (biblical account; aged 120)
Mount Nebo, Moab (present-day Jordan)
Physical description
Hair Black
Eyes Brown
Based on
Moses Based On
Rap battle information
Appeared in Moses vs Santa Claus
Vs Santa Claus
The elves
Release date December 10, 2012
Official vote(s) 74% (Old poll from ERB Website)
Location(s) The Red Sea
I'll split your ass in half, like I did the Red Sea.
— Moses

Moses battled Santa Claus and his elves in Moses vs Santa Claus. He was portrayed by Snoop Dogg

Information on the rapper

Moses is a well-known figure from the Jewish Torah, Samaritan Pentateuch, Christian Bible, and Muslim Quran. He is considered by Jews and Samaritans as their most important prophet and is highly revered in Christianity and Islam. First appearing in the Book of Exodus, his story follows the progression of the Israelite people from oppressed slaves in Egypt to a God-fearing people in the Land of Canaan.

After he was born, Moses is said to have been placed in a reed basket that was left on the banks of the Nile by his mother Jochebed. He was found and reared by Egyptian nursemaids in the court of Pharaoh Ramesses II. He grew up in the Pharaoh's court but in adulthood, fled to Midian after he killed an Egyptian to save a Hebrew from being beaten. In Midian, Moses married a woman named Zipporah and had children with her. While tending his sheep in Midian, Moses saw a burning bush and had a spiritual experience whereby God spoke to him, revealing his name to be YHWH and telling him to return to Egypt and free the Israelites from their bondage to the Pharaoh. God also imbued Moses's staff with special powers. Moses initially refused God's call, claiming he was not well-spoken. God would not let this pass, and also recruited Moses' brother, Aaron, as a fellow prophet and interpreter of divine law.

Moses himself pled to the great pharaoh in order to set the Israelites free, but the pharaoh was rendered "hard of heart" by God's command, and thus he refused to release them.  Through Moses and the staff, God summoned ten plagues upon Egypt, the last of which (the deaths of the firstborns) is regarded as the origin of the Jewish holiday Passover. The Pharaoh eventually freed the Israelites, and Moses led them out of Egypt during the night. However, almost as soon as the Israelites were gone, the Pharaoh wanted them back and pursued them with his army. When the Israelites reached the shores of The Red Sea, Moses, at God's command, raised his arms and God parted the waters of The Red Sea parted to allow the Israelites to cross. Once the Israelites reached the other side, dawn broke and the waters of The Red Sea came back in and drowned the Pharaoh and his army.

After crossing The Red Sea and defeating the Amalekites at Rephidim, Moses was called to meet God on Mount Sinai, where God revealed the Torah to him and wrote in stone the Ten Commandments for the Jewish people. However, because of the people's lack of faith in God and refusal to listen to the testimonies of the twelve spies, they, along with Moses, were forced to wander in the wilderness for forty years so that the unfaithful generation would die off and only the new generation would be able to inherit the land. Moses continued to lead the Israelites until his death on Mount Nebo, after which the people entered Canaan under his successor Joshua.

Scholars generally consider Moses to be a legendary figure and the Exodus as a foundation myth rather than a historically accurate account of the Israelites' origins. There is virtually no archaeological evidence for the existence of Moses or the historicity of the Exodus as described in the Bible and archaeological studies firmly root the origins of the Israelites within Canaan itself. Furthermore, the Exodus narrative is generally considered to have reached its final form in the 5th century BCE. It also contains multiple mythological embellishments and uses common themes from Ancient Near Eastern literature in order to promote certain beliefs and practices. Despite this, there is still the possibility of Moses or a Moses-like figure existing sometime in the Late Bronze Age who the Biblical Moses was based on. Similarly, despite the numerous mythological embellishments in the Exodus narrative, the story may still contain a kernel of truth, probably representing a cultural memory of the escape of a small group of West Semitic slaves from Egypt to Canaan in the Late Bronze Age.

ERBoH Bio

My name… is Moses. I'm a religious leader, lawgiver and a prophet and I've got a hot new book out called the Old Testament. It's about how I led the Hebrew people out of Egypt and took them all the way to the land of Milk and Honey. It wasn't easy convincing the Egyptian Pharaoh to "let my people go" – it took a few plagues. Frogs, Locusts. Blood. That kind of thing. We also made a short (forty-year) side-journey where we wandered the wilderness and I received God's law for his chosen people, the Ten Commandments. Yeah, my good friend God made a habit of appearing to me as a burning bush.

Lyrics

Verse 1:

When I was high up on the mountain, God revealed the truths of the earth,

But He never mentioned a fat-ass Papa Smurf.

It takes nine reindeers to haul your fat ass.

You took the Christ out of Christmas and just added more mass.

You need to stop breakin' into houses and creepin'

And peepin' on naughty kids while they sleepin'

And keep your hands off my stocking.

Don't you Ho-Ho me!

I'll split your ass in half, like I did the Red Sea.

You ain't a saint, you a slaver, like a pharaoh in the snow.

Stop with the unpaid labor and let my little people go.

Verse 2:

So much drama in the Israe-L B.C.,

It's kinda hard talking directly to the G-O-single-D.

Hand me my chisel. I got a new Commandizzle for y'all.

Thou shalt not let children sit on a grown man's lap at the mall.

I'll beat you ten times before the bread can rise, you dummy,

And walk off into the land of my milk and honeys.

Trivia

  • Moses is the first biblical figure to rap in the series, followed by Adam and Eve.
  • He is the first rapper to be portrayed by a real-life celebrity instead of a famous YouTuber (although Snoop Dogg does make YouTube videos, he is better known as a critically acclaimed rapper).
  • Both Moses and his actor, Snoop Dogg, are mentioned in rap battles preceding Moses vs Santa Claus: Moses is mentioned by Marilyn Monroe in Cleopatra vs Marilyn Monroe, and Stephen Hawking refers to himself as "the Snoop Dogg of science" in Albert Einstein vs Stephen Hawking.
    • This makes Moses the third rapper to appear after being mentioned in a previous battle.
  • On Santa Claus' Naughty List, his sin is labeled as "Killed Egyptian Dude, Buried him in sand". This was also one of Santa's lyrics.
  • If you look closely at Moses' tablet, it says ERB on the fourth row to the bottom.
  • ERB took Moses' line, "So much drama in the Israe-L B.C., it's kinda hard talking directly to G-O-single-D" from "Gin and Juice" by Snoop Dogg.[1]
  • Throughout the battle, it can be seen that he is wearing socks and sweatpants underneath his robes.
  • His lyrics were written by his own actor, Snoop Dogg.
  • During the last few seconds of an ERB2 video, "ERB Christmas Compilation 2018", a video link appeared for a split-second. The link leads to an unlisted video of Snoop Dogg as Moses rapping in front of a green screen.[2]

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