A painting depicting Moses, 1638, by Jusepe de Ribera

Moses (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה, Standard Moshe Tiberian Mōšeh; Greek Mωυσής in both the Septuagint and the New Testament; Arabic: موسىٰ, Mūsa; Ge'ez: ሙሴ Musse; Bulgarian Мойсей) was a 13th century BCE^[1] Biblical Hebrew religious leader, lawgiver, prophet, and military leader, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed. He is also an important prophet in Judaism,^[2] Christianity,^[2] Islam,^[3] the Bahá'í Faith,^[3] Mormonism,^[2] Rastafari,^[2] Raëlism,^[4][5][6] Chrislam^[3][2] and many other faiths. According to the book of Exodus, Moses was born to a Hebrew mother who hid him when a Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew boys to be killed, and ended up being adopted into the Egyptian royal family. After killing an Egyptian slave master, he fled and became a shepherd, and was later commanded by God to deliver the Hebrews from slavery. After the Ten Plagues were unleashed on Egypt, he led the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt, through the Red Sea, and they wandered in the desert for 40 years. Despite living to 120, he did not enter the Land of Israel, as he disobeyed God when God instructed him on how to bring forth water from a rock in the desert.