Moses

Moses was a Biblical figure in Earth history. He was renowned as the who led the Jews out of slavery. 
In one of the events recorded in the Bible, he, along with his brother , appeared before the Pharaoh, requesting that the Egyptian leader let the Jews go so that they could serve their God in the wilderness. When the Pharaoh refused, Aaron changed the water of the river into blood, demonstrating the power of the Jewish God. ()
The painting entitled Moses Showing the Tablets of the Law to the People, depicting an image of Moses showing his people the Tablets of the Law, was contained in the library computer aboard the . This data was flashed on a viewscreen when the Talosians scanned the Enterprise computer in 2254. ()
In 2267, after being asked by Captain James T. Kirk what was the point of having books, Attorney-at-Law Samuel T. Cogley responded that books were where the law was. In his opinion, a person would get from a computer the homogenised and pasteurised synthesis of laws, whereas, in books, a person would know the law by reading the original concepts in their own language and learn the intent of the Humans who wrote the laws, from Moses to the Tribunal of Alpha III. ()
In 2269, the immortal Flint claimed to have personally met Moses (as well as Socrates and Galileo Galilei) during his lifetime. ()
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=== Background information ===
Ronald D. Moore commented that the story of Moses was one of the inspirations for Benjamin Sisko's character arc. 
German monk Bernhard Janzen, who was writing a dissertation about religious symbolism in Star Trek, compared Sisko's smashing the Reckoning Tablet in to Moses smashing the Ten Commandments. 
The of the fourth season episode describes Kor's raised hands towards the Bajoran wormhole as being like "Moses parting the Red Sea". 
According to Michael Okuda, the inclusion of the image "Moses Smashing the Tablets of the Law" among the remastered library computer images seen in "The Cage" because it was "intended to tie into the theme of Humans hating captivity, which is also why I dwelt more on Lincoln than the other American presidents." ()
Actor Chris Obi described his character, the Klingon T'Kuvma, as a Moses-like figure. ()
The holy book in the White Church contained heavily edited portions of the , including the meeting of Moses and Aaron with the Pharaoh from Chapter 7 of the .
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