Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
From the Imperial War Museums collection, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Ten British POWs in German-occupied Poland decide to help a young Jewish woman escape the SS and a death march to the sea.
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© Tommy, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
After more than a month in the wilderness of the Sinai Peninsula, Moses finds that the Israelites are growing rebellious.
© Derek Harper, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Moses comes down from Mount Sinai with a constitution for a holy nation, to find it already broken.
© Berthold-Werner, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
Since the Israelites could not bear seeing Moses go to the mountain, the God upon the mountain came down to the Israelites.
© noa hen, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Spies are sent out to scout the Promised Land, but their report shows that Israel is not yet ready to inherit it.
© Roman Haselsberger, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
Moses is allowed to look upon the Promised Land for the first and last time.