Category: Exodus

This is another dense chapter and I will need to leave out many of the details, so please feel free to read it for yourself. “Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind ..[which].. brought the locusts. The locusts… settled on the whole country of Egypt,…

“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, ‘Let my people go, that they may serve me. For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them, behold, the hand of the Lord will fall with a very severe plague upon your livestock that are in the field,…

” ‘The Nile shall swarm with frogs that shall come up into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls. The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your servants.’ So Aaron…

” ‘You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land. But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, Pharaoh will not listen to you… Take your staff…

There are a few points of interest here, though I’ll focus on only one. ” ‘Say therefore to the people of Israel, “I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an…

“Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, “Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.” ‘ But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord,…

This is another dense chapter full of many events, so I’ll only pick out the one that resonates the most. To summarize the remainder: God gives Moses 3 signs so he may convince the Pharaoh to let Israel go – a staff that becomes a snake when thrown on the ground (it becomes a staff…

“Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro.. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. Then the Lord said, ‘I have surely seen the affliction of…

This dense chapter contains many events, so I will attempt to summarize. “[a Levite] woman conceived and bore a son; and… hid him for three months. But when she could hide him no longer, she got him a wicker basket and covered it over with tar and pitch. Then she put the child into it…

“Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation. But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them. Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9 And he said to his people,…