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THE WALL FRESCOES
the father’s house; so Botticelli, in one of
his subordinate scenes, supplies the illus-
tration of the preceding incident, when
Moses, keeping his father-in-law’s sheep,
came to the mountain of Horeb.
Exod. iii. 2. And the angel of the Lord appeared
unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush :
and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire,
and the bush was not consumed.
3. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see
this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
4. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to
see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush,
and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
5. And he said, Draw not nigh hither : put off thy
shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou
standest is holy ground. . . .
Exod. iii. 7-10.
In the background we see Moses taking
off his sandals, and again he is represented
kneeling in adoration before the burning
bush. In the foreground, on the left, is a
procession of the going forth of the Israelites
into the wilderness. Moses goes before with
the staff, his wife and children follow, one
grasping a dog. Behind is the black beard
and turban of Aaron, and the long train
THE WALL FRESCOES
the father’s house; so Botticelli, in one of
his subordinate scenes, supplies the illus-
tration of the preceding incident, when
Moses, keeping his father-in-law’s sheep,
came to the mountain of Horeb.
Exod. iii. 2. And the angel of the Lord appeared
unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush :
and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire,
and the bush was not consumed.
3. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see
this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
4. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to
see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush,
and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
5. And he said, Draw not nigh hither : put off thy
shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou
standest is holy ground. . . .
Exod. iii. 7-10.
In the background we see Moses taking
off his sandals, and again he is represented
kneeling in adoration before the burning
bush. In the foreground, on the left, is a
procession of the going forth of the Israelites
into the wilderness. Moses goes before with
the staff, his wife and children follow, one
grasping a dog. Behind is the black beard
and turban of Aaron, and the long train