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Exodus 1
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Exodus 2
A Levite woman gives birth to a son and places him in the Nile to keep him safe from Pharaoh. Pharaoh's daughter discovers him while bathing, adopts him, and names him Moses. After Moses grows up, he kills an Egyptian who was abusing one of his people. When his crime is discovered, Moses flees to Midian where he meets a priest, Reuel, and his family. Moses marries his daughter, Zipporah, and she gives birth to Gershom.
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Exodus 3
While Moses is tending the flock of Jethro, he comes to Horeb, the mountain of God. The Lord appears to him in a burning bush. "Do not come any closer," God said. "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground." (Exodus 3:5 NIV)
God tells Moses that he is the god of Israel and would send Moses to Pharaoh to deliver the Israelites out of Egypt. When Moses asks God whom he should say has sent him, God said to Moses, "I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I am has sent me to you.'" (Exodus 3:14 NIV)
God promises to deliver Israel into
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Exodus 4
Moses then objects that he is "slow of speech and tongue" (Exodus 4:10
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Moses leaves Jethro with his wife and sons. God reminds Moses that Pharaoh will refuse to let Israel go and that the firstborn son of every Egyptian will die as a result. God briefly wants to kill Moses, but a bloody foreskin changes his mind. Moses meets Aaron in the desert and they go to speak with the elders of Israel. "And when they heard that the Lord was concerned about them and had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped." (Exodus 4:31
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The date can be calculated based on a 961BC date for Solomon's Temple, we then add the 480 years which arrives at 1441 BC for the Exodus. The 10 Commandments would have been received some time after that – probably in 1440 or later in 1441, depending on which month the Exodus began in. The verse below indicates it took 3 months to travel from Egypt to Sinai where the commandments were given to Moses.[1]Exodus 5
The Israelite foremen realized that they could not meet this quota and they asked Pharaoh to relent, but he would not. They then accused Moses and Aaron of stirring up trouble and giving the Egyptians a reason to kill them.
After they said this, Moses asked God, "O Lord, why have you brought trouble upon this people? Is this why you sent me? Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble upon this people, and you have not rescued your people at all." (
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Exodus 6
God reminds Moses of His relationship with Israel, and commands him to tell the people that He will deliver them from Egypt and bring them into the land. But because they were in anguish from their bondage, the children of Israel did not listen.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Go in, speak unto
Moses replied that he was not an eloquent speaker and asked how Pharaoh would listen to him.
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ENGLISH TEXT: American Standard - Douay-Rheims - Free - King James - Jewish Publication Society - Tyndale - World English - WycliffeExodus 7
Pharaoh asks Moses and Aaron for a miracle and, as God had commanded, Aaron throws down his staff and it becomes a snake. The sorcerers and magicians then duplicate this feat – they throw down their own staffs and they too become snakes, but Aaron's "snake" then eats the other snakes.
But Pharaoh's heart is hardened and he refuses to let Israel go. Moses then, at God's command, turns the waters of Egypt into blood, killing all of the fish and ruining the water supply, but Pharaoh is unrelenting.
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ENGLISH TEXT: American Standard – Douay–Rheims – Free – King James – Jewish Publication Society – Tyndale – World English – WycliffeExodus 8
God commands Aaron to stretch his staff over the water, and hordes of frogs overrun Egypt. Pharaoh grants permission for the Hebrews to leave, but afterwards rescinds it. The third and fourth plagues are lice and flies. Pharaoh promises to allow the Israelites to leave, but again refuses to keep his promise.
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PLACES: Egypt - Nile - Land of Goshen
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ENGLISH TEXT: American Standard - Douay-Rheims - Free - King James - Jewish Publication Society - Tyndale - World English - WycliffeExodus 9
The plagues of Egypt continue with an epidemic disease on Egyptian livestock. The Israelites' cattle are unharmed. Once again, Pharaoh makes no concessions.
God commands Moses and Aaron to each take two handfuls of soot from a furnace, and scatter it skyward in Pharaoh's presence. The soot induces
God commands Moses to stretch his staff skyward, which commences a powerful shower of hail intermixed with fire. The storm heavily damages Egyptian crops, as well as men and livestock. The storm strikes all of Egypt except for the Land of Goshen. Pharaoh promises to allow the Israelites to worship God in the desert. The hail stops as soon as Moses begins praying to God. However, Pharaoh refuses to keep his promise.
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ENGLISH TEXT: American Standard - Douay-Rheims - Free - King James - Jewish Publication Society - Tyndale - World English - WycliffeExodus 10
Moses warns Pharaoh of the impending plague of locusts. Pharaoh's officials beg him to let the men go, but he is still unwilling to give in. He proposes a compromise: the men will be allowed to go, while women, children and livestock will remain in Egypt. Moses repeats God's demand that every last person and animal shall go, but Pharaoh refuses.
God has Moses stretch his staff over Egypt, and a wind brings a locust swarm. The swarm covers the sky, casting a shadow over Egypt, consuming all remaining crops. Pharaoh again promises to allow the children of Israel to worship God in the desert. As promised, God hardens Pharaoh's heart, and Pharaoh does not allow Israel to leave.
God instructs Moses to stretch his hand over Egypt, and bringing a tangible darkness for three days. The children of Israel are able to see perfectly. Pharaoh summons Moses again to bargain with him: he offers to let all the Hebrews go, but leave their livestock in Egypt. Moses refuses this condition. Pharaoh is outraged, and he threatens Moses with death.
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Exodus 11
God tells Moses that the final plague of Egypt is the death of all Egyptian first born males. This plague will cause Pharaoh to send the Israelites away, and God orders Moses to prepare the people to leave.
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Exodus 12
God commanded Moses to teach the ritual of Pesah. God told Moses to order the Hebrews to mark their doorpost with the lamb's blood, in order that the plague of death would pass over them.
In the middle of the night, God came upon Egypt to take the life of all the Egyptian first-born sons, including Pharaoh's own son. There was a great cry in Egypt, such as had never been heard before, or ever will be heard again. However, no Hebrew first-born was killed, as God "passed over" the Israelite houses.
Pharaoh ordered the Israelites to go away, taking whatever they wanted. The Israelites didn't hesitate; and at the end of that night Moses led them out of Egypt.
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Exodus 13
The LORD tells Moses that the first born of each family should be redeemed. Moses commands the people to remember the flight from Egypt, to eat unleavened bread and hold a feast on the seventh day. Led by a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, the Israelites continue their journey into the desert, carefully avoiding the war-torn land of the Philistines.
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Exodus 14
God tells the Israelites to camp between Migdol and the sea. Pharaoh continues his pursuit. The Israelites see the Egyptians approaching and become frightened, but God commands Moses to stretch out his staff and divide the sea. The angel of God and the pillar of cloud move between the Israelites and the Egyptians, separating them. God sends a strong east wind and the Israelites enter the sea on dry ground, the water like a wall on the right and left. The Egyptians follow, but God commands Moses to stretch out his staff again, and the waters return, covering the chariots and horsemen. The people fear the LORD and have faith in Moses.
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Exodus 15
After the
The Israelites continue travelling into the Wilderness of Shur. At Marah The Israelites complain to Moses about the bitterness of the water. To remedy this problem, God instructs Moses to throw a certain piece of wood into the water, which sweetened the water and made it fit to drink.
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ENGLISH TEXT: American Standard - Douay-Rheims - Free - King James - Jewish Publication Society - Tyndale - World English - WycliffeExodus 16
The Israelites continue their journey into the desert, and once in the Wilderness of Sin, they complain about the lack of food. Listening to their complaint, God sends them a shower of quail, and subsequently provides a daily shower of manna from heaven.
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ENGLISH TEXT: American Standard - Douay-Rheims - Free - King James - Jewish Publication Society - Tyndale - World English - WycliffeExodus 17
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ENGLISH TEXT: American Standard - Douay-Rheims - Free - King James - Jewish Publication Society - Tyndale - World English - WycliffeExodus 18
Jethro advises Moses to establish a system of courts to relieve Moses of the crushing burden of judging all disputes.
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Exodus 19
In the third month the Israelites arrive at Mount Sinai, and God announces, via Moses, that the Israelites are God's people, because he has liberated them by his omnipotence. The Israelites accept this call, and so, with thunder and lightning, clouds of smoke, and the noise of trumpets, God appears to them at the top of Mount Sinai.
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Exodus 20
God sets forth the Ten Commandments concerning man's relationship with God, and man's relationship to each other. The people are frightened by the voice of God and ask Moses to intercede. God then commands Moses to build an altar.
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Exodus 21
God sets forth commandments regarding ethical treatment of slaves, treatment of other people and livestock.
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Exodus 22
God sets forth commandments regarding ritual and civil law.
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Exodus 23
God concludes the Covenant Code, promises Canaan to the Israelites if they obey, but warns against the paganism of its inhabitants.
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Moses writes God's words and reads them to the people of Israel, who pledge their obedience. Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu and seventy elders go up the mountain and see a representation of God. God calls Moses up into the mountain to receive a set of stone tablets containing the law, and further instructions.
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Exodus 26
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Exodus 27
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Exodus 28
29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.
30 And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.
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Exodus 29
God gives details of the ritual to be used to ordain the priests, including robing, anointing, and seven days of sacrifices. There are also instructions for daily morning and evening offerings of a lamb.
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Exodus 30
God instructs Moses to make an incense altar. God instructs Moses that each person 20 years old or older, regardless of wealth, should pay a half-shekel ransom to the service of the Tent of Meeting. God tells Moses to place a laver between the tabernacle and the altar, so that Aaron and the priests could wash their hands and feet in water when they enter the tent or approach the altar. God directs Moses to make a sacred anointing oil from choice spices and olive oil to anoint the tabernacle, the furnishings, and the priests. God directed Moses make sacred incense from herbs to burn in the tabernacle. God warns against making anointing oil and incense from the same recipes for lay purposes.
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ENGLISH TEXT: American Standard - Douay-Rheims - Free - King James - Jewish Publication Society - Tyndale - World English - WycliffeExodus 31
God informs Moses that God has endowed
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Exodus 32
The people, impatient for Moses’ return, implore Aaron to make them a god. Aaron molds a golden calf and the people offer sacrifices, eat, drink, and dance. God tells Moses what the people have done, saying he will destroy them. Moses implores God not to do so, calling on God to remember his oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and God renounces the planned punishment. Moses goes down the mountain bearing the two tablets, and becomes enraged and shatters the tablets. He burns the calf, grinds it to powder, strews it upon the water, and makes the Israelites drink it. All the Levites, at Moses’ instruction, kills 3,000 people. God punishes the remaining sinners by means of a plague.
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ENGLISH TEXT: American Standard - Douay-Rheims - Free - King James - Jewish Publication Society - Tyndale - World English - WycliffeExodus 33
God dispatches Moses and the people to the Promised Land, but God decides not to go in their midst and the Israelites go into mourning. Moses erects the Tabernacle outside the camp, and enters to speak to God, face to face. Moses asks God to lead the people and God agrees. Moses asks God to let him behold God’s Presence, but God explains that no human can see God’s face and live. God instructs Moses to station himself on a rock, where God will cover him with God’s hand until God has passed, at which point Moses can see God’s back.
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ENGLISH TEXT: American Standard - Douay–Rheims - Free - King James - Jewish Publication Society - Tyndale - World English - WycliffeExodus 34
God directs Moses to carve two stone tablets like the ones that Moses shattered. God makes a covenant to work wonders and to drive out the peoples of the Promised Land. God warns Moses against making a covenant with them. God commands the Israelites to redeem every first-born, to observe the Sabbath and the Three Pilgrimage Festivals, to not offer sacrifices with anything leavened, to not leave the Passover lamb lying until morning, to bring choice first fruits to the house of the Lord, and to not boil a kid in its mother's milk. Moses stays with God 40 days, eating no bread, drinking no water. As Moses comes down from the mountain, his face is radiant.
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Moses reminds the
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Exodus 36
Moses calls on all skilled persons to build the Tabernacle. The Israelites bring more materials than is needed, so Moses proclaims an end to the collection. The skilled workers fashion the Tabernacle.
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ENGLISH TEXT: American Standard - Douay-Rheims - Free - King James - Jewish Publication Society - Tyndale - World English - WycliffeExodus 37
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Exodus 39
Bezalel, Oholiab, and their coworkers make the priests’ vestments, the ephod, the breastpiece, the robe, the tunics of fine linen, and the frontlet inscribed “Holy to the Lord” — just as God had commanded Moses. Then they bring the Tabernacle and all its furnishings to Moses, and he blesses them.
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God tells Moses to set up the Tabernacle, and Moses does as God commanded him, on the first day of the second year of the Exodus. When Moses finishes the work, the cloud covers the Tabernacle, and God's presence fills the Tabernacle. The Israelites travel only when the cloud lifts from the Tabernacle. God's cloud rests over the Tabernacle by day, and fire appears in it by night, throughout the Israelites’ journeys.
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