Kebra Nagast

Concerning the Rods of Moses and Aaron tual beings through receiving His Body and Blood in the place of those spiritual beings who were exiled, and we have become beings worthy of praise who have believed And as in His Cross and in His holy Resurrection. Moses smote the mountains by stretching out his hands with his rod, and brought forth punishments by the command of God, even so Christ, by stretching out His hands upon the wood of the Cross, drove out the demons from men by the might of His Cross. When God said unto Moses, " Smite with thy rod," He " Make the Sign of the Cross of Christ," and when God said unto Moses, " Stretch out thy hand," 1 meant, He meant that by the spreading out of His hand Christ hath redeemed us from the servitude of the enemy, and hath given us life by the stretching out of His hand upon the wood of the Cross. And when Amalek fought with Israel, Moses went up into the mountain, and Aaron was with him they went up to pray because Amalek was prevailing. And God commanded Moses and said unto him, " Stretch out thy hand until Israel obtaineth the power [over 2 And it saith in the Tor ah that the hands Amalek]." of Moses were held out until the sunset but the hands of Moses became heavy, and being aweary he dropped his hands that had been stretched out, and then Israel ceased to prevail and their enemies overcame them. And when Moses kept his hand up and stretched out straight, Amalek was overcome, and Israel put to And when flight and vanquished their enemy Amalek. Aaron and Hor (Hur) saw this, they piled up stones on the right and on the left of Moses, and they made the hands of Moses to rest on the stones which they had built up, and Aaron on his right and Hor on his left held Moses up with their shoulders, so that his hands might not drop from their stretched out ; ; position. 1 Exodus vii, 19 ; viii. 8 Exodus xvii, u, 12 ff. 181