Round 12: Tossup 10

This man compares his teaching to water on fresh grass in a "song" delivered shortly before his death. The angel Gabriel gave this man a stutter by prompting him to put a coal in his mouth as an infant. This man nearly starved in Midian before being saved by Zipporah. (10[1])God is angered after this man chooses to hit a rock twice to conjure water, condemning him to never enter the Promised Land. God spoke to this man from a burning bush and, on Mount Sinai, revealed the Ten Commandments to him. For 10 points, name this Jewish prophet who, in Exodus, led the Israelites out of Egypt and parted the Red Sea. ■END■

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