Objects
bush
A bush shelters Ishmael's child in Genesis 21; in Exodus 3 the angel of Yahweh appears in a flame from a bush that blazes yet is not burnt up at Horeb.
Category
Objects
First mention
Genesis 21:15
Tags
3
Genesis 21Exodus 3Theophany
Scripture references
- Genesis 21:15
When the skin of water was finished she abandoned the child under a bush.
- Exodus 3:2
The angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame blazing from the middle of a bush. Moses looked; there was the bush blazing, but the bush was not being burnt up.
- Exodus 3:3
Moses said, 'I must go across and see this strange sight, and why the bush is not being burnt up.'
- Exodus 3:4
When Yahweh saw him going across to look, God called to him from the middle of the bush. 'Moses, Moses!' he said. 'Here I am,' he answered.