• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
    28·
    10 days ago

    While we’re at it, myrrh was a fragrant resin used in all sorts of applications, not just for embalming.

    • fartographer@lemmy.world
      20·
      10 days ago

      I guess I’ll keep it going. Moses means “to pull out from the water,” so he wouldn’t have been “Moses” while placing him in the basket.

      Also, why would the daughter of the dude supposedly killing all of the slave babies be like, “I’m gonna name this baby using the slaves’ language.”

      • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        (because they were just a bronze age tribe in Palestine making up stories about take history in faraway places to big themselves up among the other tribes)