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at the Jewish Passover.
     
    The Pharaoh, of course, has second thoughts and mounts his armies to pursue the escaping Hebrew slaves, only to have them destroyed in one of the Bible’s greatest, single mythically miraculous events: the parting of the Red Sea. Once completely free of the Pharaoh and his armies, Moses leads the Hebrews to the Holy Mountain of God—some say it is Sinai, other writings place it at Jabal Musa in Saudi Arabia. It is here that Moses climbs to the top and meets God face-to-face, and God sends him back down 40 days later with the tablets of the Law inscribed (by God’s own hand) with the Ten Commandments. Upon Moses’ descent, he finds the people worshipping a golden calf and partying like an Egyptian. He breaks the tablets and imposes punishment for the idolatrous worship, then returns to the mountaintop, where God inscribes a new set of stone texts for him.
     
    The Hebrews make their way to the Land of Cana’an, only to have their spies return with reports of giant Nephilim dwelling in the land. In fear, the people tell Moses that they are unwilling to enter Cana’an and conquer it, even though it was promised them by God because it was their ancestral homeland. So Moses leads them back out to the wilderness where they wander as a nomadic tribe for 40 years. In the process of their wilderness sojourn, Moses, in an angry response to the complaints of the people, commits the sinful act of pride by equating himself with God, and is then told by God that for his punishment, he could see the promised land, but not enter it. As the Hebrews march into the land of Cana’an, Moses ascends the slope of Mount Nebo, where he gazes into the land of God’s promise, and dies. His body is never found.
     
    In the entire account of the life and deeds of Moses as written in the Old Testament, we are never given the names of the historical kings of Egypt with whom Moses lived and against whom he stood in conflictin his return to lead the Hebrews out of captivity. They are referred to only as “Pharaoh” or “the king of Egypt.”
     
    Moses had particular reasons for writing these accounts the way he did, the first of which was a demonstration of just how unimportant the names of these great rulers were to the story of the deliverance of his people. Examining the life of Moses and the dating of his exploits will bring a much greater understanding of the texts he authored and subsequently his handling of the topic of the Nephilim in his Book of Genesis.
     
The Making of a Pharaoh-God
     
    It is extremely important to have an understanding of the historical data surrounding these people and events, for without that information we are left to dangle at the end of the rope of mythology and legend. Seeking out and ascribing solid dates and historical facts is nothing short of throwing wide the door of illumination on the dark room of ignorance and speculative conjecture. Of course, there are many who will say that these very facts presented here are nothing but subjective hypothesis, yet out of all the systems and theories set in place to establish the historical life of Moses, this is the one that makes the most sense by the current facts as they exist—at least when one makes an attempt to ensure the facts as presented in the Bible concur as closely as possible to the historical record.
     
    And before you walk away from this chapter wondering what the historical story of Moses has to do with the Sons of God and the Nephilim, consider this: The man who wrote about them in the Book of Genesis experienced an upbringing, education, and lifestyle in the courts of the Egyptian royalty. Being one of the progeny of the Pharaoh, who was considered to be a god, Moses was indeed himself, a literal “son of god” in the eyes of the Egyptian people. Moses’ notions of the creation of the world and the birth of humanity were greatly influenced by the religion of the Egyptian culture that was all around him during his