Reference to the Hebrew phrase in a TV series shows how widespread it has become
By Simon Rocker
“When Moses grew up he went out to his people and witnessed their burdens. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people” Exodus 2:11
By Rabbi Dr Michael Marmur
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“The time approached for Israel to die, so he called for his son, Joseph, and said to him… please do not bury me in Egypt. And I will lie down with my fathers, and you shall transport me out of Egypt and bury me in their grave. Genesis 47:29-30)
By Joanne Greenaway
“Judah stepped forward” Genesis 44:18
By Rabbi Alex Israel
“And he turned away from them, and he wept” Genesis 42:24
By Rabbi Hannah Kingston
“Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, when my sheaf rose and stood upright; and your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf” Genesis 37:7
By Rabbi Dr Yoni Birnbaum
“Jacob was greatly frightened; in his anxiety, he divided the people with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps” Genesis 32:8
“She conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my disgrace’” Genesis 30:23
“He ate, he drank, he rose, he left. Esau spurned the birthright” Genesis 25:29-34
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