Before there was an eagle clutching arrows and an olive branch, there was Moses and the Exodus from Egypt.
On July 2, 1776, immediately after the Continental Congress voted to declare independence, its members appointed a committee to create a seal for the new United States. Two of the committee’s least religiously minded members, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, proposed images of the Israelites in the Bible, one of which features them c…
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