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Burning bush
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Burning Bush. Seventeenth-century painting by Sébastien Bourdon in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
The burning bush (or the unburnt bush) refers to an event recorded in the Jewish Torah (as also in the biblical Old Testament and Islamic scripture). It happened in the mid-15th century BCE (approx. 1514 BCE) or the 13th century BCE (c. 1260 BCE). It is described in the third chapter of the Book of Exodus as having occurred on Mount Horeb. According to the biblical account, the bush was on fire but was not consumed by the flames, hence the name. In the biblical and Quranic narrative, the burning bush is the location at which Moses was appointed by God to lead the Israelites out of Egypt and into Canaan.
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