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Forced to flee . This spirit of God said "I am your father's God, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob." Ashamed and afraid Moses would not look upon the bush or the spirit of God. The spirit of God told him to remove his sandals because he was standing in the presence of His Holiness. The spirit of God then compelled Moses to go the Pharaoh to demand the release of the Israelite s, who had been treated harshly as slaves. Moses was afraid to go for fear of his own life. The spirit of God told him that he would be with him. Moses asked if I go, they will ask who has sent me. The spirit of God told him to tell them "I am that I am, tell them I am sent you." Essentially, this meant that God is transcendeant and beyond all "materialistic" things, thus God can take on any Earthly form, appearing everywhere within everything--His word, His spirit, and His being. Moses was still fearful of undertaking this task. God grew impatient. The spirit of God transformed Moses' staff into a snake and then back into a staff, riddled his hand leporarcy and then made that too transform back into its original state, and told him that if he took water from the Nile it would turn into blood. This was how Moses was to gain his credibility with the Egyptians, who did not believe his word. Eventually, Moses decided that he was stuck on this mission, but because he was still weary God entrusted Aaron to do the speaking for Moses, and relegated Moses to performing the miracles. In Byzantine times, Saint Katherine's Monastery was built on a traditional site of the biblical event. What was thought to be the original burning bush is now dead, but a bush claimed to be its descendant is on view today. A stylised depiction of the burning bush is today the symbol of the Church Of Scotland . Burning bush is also a common name applied to several different, unrelated plants:
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