Let my people go (Go down Moses)

Tablature/guitar tab :
http://forestent.free.fr/moses.txt

Exode 8:1

L'eternel dit a Moise : va vers Pharaon, et tu lui diras : ainsi parle l'eternel : laisse aller mon peuple, afin qu'il me serve.

Exodus 8.1

"And the lord spoke unto Moses, go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him,
thus saith the lord, let my people go, that they may serve me."

Paroles

When Israel was in Egypt's land,
Let my people go,
Opressed so hard they could not stand,
Let my people go.
Go down, Moses,
Way down in Egypt's Land.
Tell old Pharoah,
Let my people go.

Ce chant traditionnel est habituellement chante en anglais en France.
This traditional gospel is usually sung in english in France.

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[ForestEnt]

@caribbeandiaspora

I can't remember Jesus speaking about slavery. Many among the first christians were slaves. Romans used to mock the "religion of slaves".

Books before gospels mentioned slavery. Slavery was a standard social fact on the whole earth until the 19th century, first time when very few states started to forbid it. I guess that some of these books can be understood as "do not treat slaves too hard", things like "free all slaves every 13 years". But I do not know them well.

[caribbeandiaspora]

@ForestEnt

The bible supported slavery and provides written rules for how a slave should be treated!

[ForestEnt]

@caribbeandiaspora

Everybody was a slaver : christian, jews, muslims, animists, all of us. Unfortunately, many "christians" were slavers. This does not mean Jesus supported them. They will get their judgement.

[caribbeandiaspora]

@ForestEnt

As black people we all are. We all grew up in church screaming 'pharaoh let my people go' & was taught pharaohs & Egyptians were wicked and Egypt was bondage, but we now know why they never want us to have anything to do with Egypt as it lies the hidden truth. Many of our people sympathising with the Jews, believing we have a shared history with them & use the bible in this, not realising their story is false & it was the Jews that enslaved us & ran the transatlantic slave trade too

[ForestEnt]

@caribbeandiaspora

How have you been a victim of the story of Moses ?

[caribbeandiaspora]

@ForestEnt

See, thats the problem. People like yourself may not care about truth from myth, especially when they are not the victim of the lie, and as a result the lies keep repeating itself. Have a nice day.

[ForestEnt]

@caribbeandiaspora

But there is one thing against the idea of Mose's pharoah being hittite : at the alleged time, there were wars between Egyptians and Hittites. That was about the time of the battle of Kadesh that Ramses II claimed to have won, which is very unlikely.

[ForestEnt]

@caribbeandiaspora

I am not a specialist, just an ordinary christian. I do not care if the story of Moses is real or not. I just want to understand what it tells us. And what I understand is that it is wrong to treat badly strangers who come to our country, to make them work hard with less rights, that it takes courage and faith to stand against this, but anyone is called by God to do it.

[ForestEnt]

@caribbeandiaspora

Greeks and turks have little to do with Hittites. :) Turks came from eastern asia thousand years later. There were only 3 powers at the time : Egypt, Hittites and Mesopotamia. The rest was small tribes in between. I understand your theory is Hyksos were Hittites. It is possible. But the question is not about logic or plausibility, it is about archeological proofs. Anyway, I am not erudite enough to have an opinion on that point.

[caribbeandiaspora]

@ForestEnt

Thanks for your reply. Let me enlightened you, we do know where the Hyksos came from and who they are. The Egyptians tell us they came from North of Kemet, Israel and beyond the Euprates and beyond, including Afganistan. The history shows that The Hyksos were a coalition of whats today known as Arabs, Jews, Greeks & Turks(Amorites & Hittites) who had formed an coalition to attack Kemet.