4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go. All according to God’s plan. 15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the river. Confront him on the bank of the Nile, and take in your hand the staff…
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand he will let them go; because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country.” God has kept all of His promises. Now He’s making another…
Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.’” God likes parties. This would be super fun. 2 Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that…
That was a long title. Let’s get into it. Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. This shepherd mention is a foreshadow for…
11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He clearly knew he wasn’t an Egyptian. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12 Looking this way and that and seeing…
Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 2 and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. Remember the killing. 3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got…
These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah; 3 Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin; 4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher. 5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy[a] in all; Joseph was already in Egypt. The Lord catching…
400 years have passed since Israel settled in Egypt under the protection of Joseph. Oral tradition would have been passed down, but that only does so much when it’s hard to see past your new circumstances, with a completely new group of people on the scene. There’s a new Pharoah…
22 Joseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father’s family. He lived a hundred and ten years 23 and saw the third generation of Ephraim’s children. Also the children of Makir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph’s knees.[c] The best thing Joseph could hope for at the end…
So Israel set out with all that was his, Remember, he’s going to Egypt to see Jose and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. A reminder that God was faithful to Jacob’s dad too. 2 And God spoke to Israel in a vision…