Exodus 1-13
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THE META-CONCEPTS
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
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THE META-CONCEPTS
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
THE META-CONCEPTS
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- Deliverance in the eschaton
- Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; And He will reign as king and act wisely And do justice and righteousness in the land. “In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell securely; And this is His name by which He will be called, ‘The Lord our righteousness.’ “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when they will no longer say, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up and led back the descendants of the household of Israel from the north land and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will live on their own soil.” Jeremiah 23:5–8 (NAS)
- God is doing cosmic level Spiritual warfare through each of the plagues that we will read. Each plague corespondent to an Egyptian god. These things should remind us of the Tower of Babel.
- God has chosen his nation, Israel. His nation is being oppressed by other gods and their people. Yahweh is taking his people back to his land.
- God is very proud of the exodus, he is making a name for himself.
- Egypt is like a womb that Israel was being formed in; the plagues were like birth pains, the deliverance was like the birthing of the Nation of Israel, Yahweh’s nation.
- Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; And He will reign as king and act wisely And do justice and righteousness in the land. “In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell securely; And this is His name by which He will be called, ‘The Lord our righteousness.’ “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when they will no longer say, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up and led back the descendants of the household of Israel from the north land and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will live on their own soil.” Jeremiah 23:5–8 (NAS)
- The opening of Exodus
- Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation. But the sons of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly, and multiplied, and became exceedingly mighty, so that the land was filled with them. Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. Exodus 1:6–8 (NAS)
- Deliverance in the eschaton
CHAPTER 1
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- Summarize chapter 1, the events before Moses
- After coming into Egypt, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob multiplied and became a great nation, so that pharaoh fear them and put them in bondage. After this, they continued to multiply and pharaoh ordered the midwives to kill any male children that would be born to the Israelites. They did not obey, because they feared the Lord.
- Summarize chapter 1, the events before Moses
CHAPTER 2
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- Summarize chapter 2, the life of Moses in Egypt before he leaves.
- This chapter summarizes the birth of Moses into the family of Levi, the saving of him by placing him in an ark and placing that ark in the Nile, and his being found by Pharaoh’s daughter. He is then given back to his mother so that she can raise him for pharaohs daughter.
- Verse 11 picks up when Moses is older. He try’s to defend some Hebrew slaves from an Egyptian, he kills the Egyptian, he is found out by pharaoh, and flees into the wilderness:
- Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well. Exodus 2:15 (NAS)
- While there, the daughters of Reuel came to water their flocks. Moses helps them and ends up coming back to live in their land, takes a wife from among the Daughters of Reuel, and has a son.
- The chapter closes:
- Now it came about in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry for help because of their bondage rose up to God. So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God saw the sons of Israel, and God took notice of them. Exodus 2:23–25 (NAS)
- What do you think it meant that God remembered his covenant?
- Summarize chapter 2, the life of Moses in Egypt before he leaves.
CHAPTER 3
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- Exodus 3:1–6 (NAS): The Burning Bush
- Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed. So Moses said, “I must turn aside now and see this marvelous sight, why the bush is not burned up.” When the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then He said, “Do not come near here; remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” He said also, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
- Notice who is in the bush: it is the angel of the Lord, the Lord, and God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and he causes the ground to be holy.
- What does God tell moses out of the bush?
- God explains that he has heard the cry of Israel and is going to deliver his people from their bondage in Egypt.
- What does Moses ask God?
- Moses wants to know what the name of this God is that is sending him
- God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. (EHYEH) This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM (Yahweh) has sent me to you.” God also said to Moses, “Say this to the Israelites: Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever; this is how I am to be remembered in every generation. Exodus 3:14–15 (HCSB)
- God explains to Moses what he will do to Egypt because Pharaoh will not let the people go.
- Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed. So Moses said, “I must turn aside now and see this marvelous sight, why the bush is not burned up.” When the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then He said, “Do not come near here; remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” He said also, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
- Exodus 3:1–6 (NAS): The Burning Bush
CHAPTER 4
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- Moses asks several times to be let off the hook, giving excuses each time. God keeps responding with a miracle and reassuring Moses that he is going to work this out. By the 4th time, we see the first recorded time that the Bible says that God became angry. Even in this though, God responds by giving provision for the need. God sends Aaron to help Moses.
- Finally Moses relents and begins towards Egypt to obey God. He is to tell Pharaoh that “Israel is the Lord’s first born.” Even here, God informs Moses of the final plague, the killing of Egypt’s first borne.
CHAPTER 5
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- After Moses first requests the freedom of the Israelites, Pharaoh responds by increasing their hardship.
CHAPTER 6
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- God uses strong covenant language when speaking about the deliverance of his people Israel.
- God spoke further to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord; and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, Lord, I did not make Myself known to them. “I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they sojourned. Exodus 6:2–4 (NAS)
- Interestingly we see that this is the first time that God is revealing himself as YHWH to his people.
- God uses strong covenant language when speaking about the deliverance of his people Israel.
CHAPTER 7
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- Moses was 80 years old when he went to pharaoh.
- Aaron’s staff became a serpent. Someone tell us the story.
- Replicated
- Nile turned to blood.
- Replicated
- Aaron’s staff became a serpent. Someone tell us the story.
- Moses was 80 years old when he went to pharaoh.
CHAPTER 8
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- Plague of frogs
- Replicated
- In this chapter, after the frogs, we see the cycle of pharaoh saying that he will relent, asking that Moses entreat the Lord to remove the plague. Moses does so, the Lord removes the plague, and the pharaoh hardens his heart again once the pressure has been removed.
- Plague of flies
- Not replicated
- Exodus 8:19 (NAS): then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.
- Plague of flies again, now there is separation, only Egypt will suffer the plagues.
- Plague of frogs
CHAPTER 9
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- Death of Egyptian livestock
- Pharaoh doesn’t respond at all to this plague because of the hardness of his heart
- Plague of boils
- Under this plague we see the first time in the text: Exodus 9:12 (NAS): the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had spoken to Moses.
- Plague of hail, things change now, Yahweh raises the intensity level
- Then the Lord said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me. “For this time I will send all My plagues on you and your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth. “For if by now I had put forth My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, you would then have been cut off from the earth. “But, indeed, for this reason I have allowed you to remain, in order to show you My power and in order to proclaim My name through all the earth. Exodus 9:13–16 (NAS)
- Behold, about this time tomorrow, I will send a very heavy hail, such as has not been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now. Exodus 9:18 (NAS)
- Death of Egyptian livestock
CHAPTER 10
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- Pharaoh is willing to let the men leave, but not the rest.
- Plague of locusts
- For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory. ‘They shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land. They will also eat the rest of what has escaped—what is left to you from the hail—and they will eat every tree which sprouts for you out of the field. ‘Then your houses shall be filled and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians, something which neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen Exodus 10:4–6 (NAS)
- Again pharaoh repented, again the Lord relented and turned the plague away, and again the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart.
- Plague of darkness that may be felt just over the land of Egypt, not in Goshen were Israel dwells
- Pharaoh relents, God hardens his heart. He tells Moses never to come to him again.
CHAPTER 11
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- One last plague. The final plague will result in the deliverance of Israel. They are to ask their neighbors the Egyptians to send them out with all of their gold and silver. They will plunder this nation and be set up for their future as a nation.
- Moses tells pharaoh what is about to happen and then, “he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.” Exodus 11:8 (NAS)
- One last plague. The final plague will result in the deliverance of Israel. They are to ask their neighbors the Egyptians to send them out with all of their gold and silver. They will plunder this nation and be set up for their future as a nation.
CHAPTER 12
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- The Passover
- Each family of the people of Israel are to choose a spotless male lamb to cook and eat together. They must roast it whole, and eat all of it; anything that is left over must be burned. They are to eat it in this manner:
- Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is the Lord’s Passover. Exodus 12:11 (NAS)
- Why like this?
- God is going to strike the first born of all of Egypt.
- For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—I am the Lord. Exodus 12:12 (NAS)
- How do the Israelites escape this?
- What is this Passover lamb and it’s blood pointing to?
- This begins an incredibly significant yearly ceremony for the nation of Israel, one that they keep every year throughout their generations. The feast of Passover.
- Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance. ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses Exodus 12:14–15 (NAS)
- As part of the Passover season, the feast of unleavened bread is celebrated.
- You shall also observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent ordinance. Exodus 12:17 (NAS)
- These things are to be kept yearly as a remembrance of Yahweh delivering His people from bondage in Egypt.
- When you enter the land which the Lord will give you, as He has promised, you shall observe this rite. “And when your children say to you, ‘What does this rite mean to you?’ you shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to the Lord who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but spared our homes.’ ” Exodus 12:25–27 (NAS)
- Jesus was performing a Passover meal with his disciples when he gave them the bread and wine at what we call the last supper.
- Each family of the people of Israel are to choose a spotless male lamb to cook and eat together. They must roast it whole, and eat all of it; anything that is left over must be burned. They are to eat it in this manner:
- The final plague occurs
- Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead. Then he called for Moses and Aaron at night and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the sons of Israel; and go, worship the Lord, as you have said. Exodus 12:30–31 (NAS)
- Israel leaves, but takes all the gold of Egypt with them. This is the wealth that God gathered through Joseph. They went out so quickly that they did not have time for their bread to become leavened.
- The Passover
CHAPTER 13
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- Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Sanctify to Me every firstborn, the first offspring of every womb among the sons of Israel, both of man and beast; it belongs to Me.” Exodus 13:1–2 (NAS)
- As the Lord spared the first born of Israel, so now the first born of every family is to be devoted to the Lord forever for Israel.
- Speaking of the Passover festival, Moses instructs them to tell the reason why they celebrate to their children:
- You shall tell your son on that day, saying, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ Exodus 13:8 (NAS)
- The Israelites went out, being led by Yahweh. Not towards the philistines, but toward the wilderness and the sea of reeds.
- The Lord was going before them in a pillar of cloud by day to lead them on the way, and in a pillar of fire by night to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night. He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people. Exodus 13:21–22 (NAS)