The Egyptians Learning of Moses (2)

Between what was Egyptian and what was Israelitish, there was, as we have seen, similarity. Let us now ask, first in respect to the religious institutions and in particular the sacrificial system of both people, how this similarity is to be explained. According to the prevalent view, the explanation is that the Israelitish institution of the sacrifice together with the rites and ceremonies attending it, was borrowed by Moses either wholly or in part from the religious worship of the Egyptians....