What is Midian?
'''Midian''' is a place in [[The Bible]]. The [[Book of Genesis]] says that Midian was the son of [[Abraham]] and [[Keturah]]. Midian’s descendants the Midianites buy [[Joseph (Hebrew Bible)|Joseph]] from [[Judah (son of Jacob)|Judah]] and his brothers and then sell him in [[Egypt]]. == Book of Exodus == When [[Moses]] runs away from [[Egypt]], he goes to the land of the Midianites. He sees male shepherds not let some girls get water from a well, so he makes the men leave and gives the girls the water. They go to their father [[Jethro]] and he tells them to invite Moses home so Moses becomes a shepherd for Jethro and marries Jethro’s daughter [[Zipporah]]. Zipporah then gives birth to a son and Moses names him [[Gershom]] because “I am a stranger in a strange land” and she also gives birth to a second son. After Moses leaves with Zipporah and his sons, [[Hashem|The Lord]] sends an [[Angel]] to kill Moses so Zipporah [[Circumcision|circumcised]] their second son and the Angel let Moses live. After that Moses left Zipporah with his sons while he went to Egypt. Jethro later left the land of the Midianites with Zipporah and his grandsons who were named Gershom and Eliezer and met with Moses. == Book of Numbers == In the [[Book of Numbers]], [[King]] [[Balak]] hires a Midianite named [[Balaam]] to [[curse]] the [[Israelites]] but Balaam accidentally [[Blessing|blesses]] them instead. So Balaam decides to get the Israelites to [[sin]] so the the [[Hashem|Almighty]] would get angry and punish them. So Balaam convinces the Midianites to send their women to have [[Sexual intercourse|sex]] with the Israelites, get them to have an [[orgy]] and get them to worship the Midianite [[Idolatry|Idol]] [[Baal Peor]]. So [[Phineas (Bible)|Phineas]], [[Aaron]]’s grandson, kills the Israelites who were sinning. The Israelites then attacked the Midianites and killed their men but not the women. Then Moses told the Israelites also to kill the Midianite women since they had done more than the men had. So they killed the Midianite women