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Staff of Musa

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The named staff of Musa in Israelite and later Islamic story, which becomes a serpent and parts water. Not a generic staff, and not a thyrsus under a desert name.

Also known as Staff of Moses

Islam

  • Staff of Musa appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an has Musa throw his staff so that it becomes a serpent, and later strike the sea with it. A named prophetic staff in that revelation, not a generic staff and not Nehushtan the bronze serpent of another book.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).