The Discovery of Genesis (83 page)

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7.
When Moses met with God on Mount Sinai, he become “a mirror of His glory,” for upon returning to speak to the Israelites, they could not bear to look upon the glory of his face. “And when he descended he did not know that
the skin of his face shone
because he had been speaking with the Lord. … Whenever the skin of Moses’ face shone in the sight of the Israelites, he would put the veil back over his face until he went in again to speak with the Lord” (Exodus 34:29, 35, NEB).

8.
, where is a
man
and
is a
garden
. A second figure,
, represents a
person, alone
, by
(right half of
). Often figures are elongated to enclose the lower radical in the ancient forms.

9.
. In some ancient forms is clearly a
house or roof
or
. Also the one
becomes
two persons
, in
and
(see p. 52).