Dathan

Family: Israelites · Role: Hebrew officer · First appears: The Youth Of Moses

In The Youth Of Moses, Dathan is identified as a Hebrew officer, the son of Pallu and brother of Abiram, and husband of Shelomith. After an Egyptian taskmaster assaulted Shelomith, he beat Dathan repeatedly, intending to kill him. The next day, Dathan and Abiram provoked a quarrel with Moses and threatened to expose his killing of the Egyptian; Dathan’s challenge was, “Young man, who hath made thee to be a judge over us, thou that hast not yet attained to years of maturity?” The brothers reported Moses to Pharaoh, who ordered his arrest and condemned him to death.

In The Return To Egypt, Moses was told that Dathan and Abiram had become poor and insignificant, without the power to harm him.

Relationship record

Life events

• The Egyptian taskmaster assaulted Shelomith, and their illicit relation produced the blasphemer of the Name.(The Youth Of Moses)
  • With: the Egyptian taskmaster who assaulted Shelomith (Section 67) Shelomith the blasphemer of the Name (Section 67)
  • “The husband scarcely out of sight, he executed the villainy he had planned, and dishonored the woman, and the fruit of this illicit relation was the blasphemer of the Name whom Moses ordered to execution on the march through the desert.”
• The Egyptian taskmaster beat Dathan repeatedly, intending to kill him.(The Youth Of Moses)
  • With: the Egyptian taskmaster who assaulted Shelomith (Section 67)
  • “Vexed that his crime had come to the knowledge of the injured husband, the taskmaster goaded him on to work with excessive vigor, and dealt him blow after blow with the intention to kill him.”
• Dathan and Abiram betrayed Moses by provoking a quarrel and threatening to expose his killing of the Egyptian.(The Youth Of Moses)
  • With: Abiram Moses
  • “The day after the thing with the Egyptians happened, the two brothers began of malice aforethought to scuffle with each other, only in order to draw Moses into the quarrel and create an occasion for his betrayal.”
• Dathan and Abiram reported Moses to Pharaoh, who ordered his arrest and condemned him to death.(The Youth Of Moses)
  • With: Abiram Moses Malol
  • “A royal command was issued for the arrest of Moses, and he was condemned to death by the sword.”
• God told Moses that Dathan and Abiram had become too powerless to harm him.(The Return To Egypt · 📍 Egypt)
  • With: Moses Abiram
  • “He told him that they had sunk to the estate of poor and insignificant men, bereft of the power of doing him harm.”

The Youth Of Moses

• married with Shelomith “One of these Hebrew officers, Dathan by name, had a wife, Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan, who was of extraordinary beauty, but inclined to be very loquacious.”
• parent: Pallu “The slaying of the Egyptian remained no secret, and those who betrayed it were Israelites, Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Pallu, of the tribe of Reuben, notorious for their effrontery and contentiousness.”
• siblings with Abiram “The slaying of the Egyptian remained no secret, and those who betrayed it were Israelites, Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Pallu, of the tribe of Reuben, notorious for their effrontery and contentiousness.”
• with Moses (Dathan challenges Moses's authority as judge over him.) “Young man, who hath made thee to be a judge over us, thou that hast not yet attained to years of maturity?”

The Return To Egypt

• enemies with Moses “his whilom enemies Dathan and Abiram”

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Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume II. Made with Rho MD.