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Moses Commanding the Waters to Close upon the Egyptian Host,
1858
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<p>Moses calls down destruction upon the pharaoh and his army, who pursued the Israelites as they departed from Egypt. The cloud or pillar that led the Israelites through the parted sea has turned destructive to the Egyptians, who are engulfed in the closing waters. Moses was not fated to see the destination of the Israelites, the Promised Land, except from the summit of Mt. Nebo, as they neared the end of forty years of wandering in the desert. This Biblical story was referred to in Martin Luther King Jr.’s last speech (April 3, 1968), in which he said that he had seen the Promised Land, and although he himself might not reach it, African Americans as a people would. </p> <p>Betsy Rosasco, Research Curator of European Painting and Sculpture</p>
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1858
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