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Exodus 5:22-23. Why have you sent me?. Moses alone outside a low Egyptian mudbrick settlement at dusk, questioning in sorrow after the increased oppression. Wide quiet composition with much empty dim sky and a few distant homes; seated on a low stone at frame right, head bowed, long white hair and beard, crimson mantle over cream robe, gnarled staff lowered diagonally beside him and resting against his knee. One hand open in troubled prayer, other rests on the staff. Reference locks elder identity. No burning bush, no other characters, no visible deity or supernatural light. Cool twilight with a last narrow warm horizon; dignified emotional restraint, hand-inked graphic novel. Bronze Age Exodus setting, not first-century staging. One 16:9 single scene. No text or lettering.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

Exodus 5:22-23

Why have you sent me?

Before Pharaoh · Exodus 5

Story guide: Moses brings the people’s suffering back before God.

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22Then Moses returned to Yahweh and said, “Lord, why have you brought harm on this people? Why then did you send me?”

23For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people, and you have certainly not delivered your people.

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