ABSTRACT
The visionary prophet Moses was credited with these words by the post-exilic authors, with exile to Babylon indicated and, seemingly, presaged:
Because they forsook the covenant that the Lord, God of their fathers made with them when He freed them from the land of Egypt; they turned to the service of other gods and worshipped them, . . . So the Lord was incensed at that land . . . and uprooted them from their soil in anger, fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as is still the case.
