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Moses. Abraham. 2000 A.D. Creation of world. 2000 B.C. 1400 B.C. 30 A.D. Book 2 EXODUS Picks up the story 400 years after Genesis. The nation of Israel is in slavery to Egypt. The name means “going out” or “departure”. Moses. Abraham. 2000 A.D. Creation of world. 2000 B.C.
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Moses Abraham 2000 A.D. Creation of world 2000 B.C. 1400 B.C.. 30 A.D. Book 2 EXODUS • Picks up the story 400 years after Genesis. • The nation of Israel is in slavery to Egypt. • The name means “going out” or “departure”
Moses Abraham 2000 A.D. Creation of world 2000 B.C. 1400 B.C. 30 A.D. Book 2 EXODUS • Moses wrote Exodus are God RESCUED His people from slavery in Egypt and while Israel wandered for 40 years in the wilderness. • The book of Exodus serves as a PERMENANT record of the covenant God with Israel at Mt. Sinai.
Exodus 19:4 – 6 You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you shall be My treasured possession among all peoples, for all earth is Mine; and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
MOSES He was born to a Hebrew slave family but rescued by Pharaoh’s daughter. Having grown up in the Egyptian royal court, Moses had inside knowledge of the royal court and the political subtleties of the time. As an educated Egyptian, Moses knew the religion, traditions, and political practices in Egypt. But when he fled Egypt after killing an Egyptian overseer, he became a shepherd in Midian. He was 80 years old when God called him to face an imposing Pharaoh.
AARON He was Moses’ and Miriam’s brother and the first high priest of Israel. God assigned Aaron to be Moses’ assistant. Despite his closeness to God and Moses, Aaron committed a terrible sin when he agreed to build an idol—the golden calf—for Israel.
PHARAOH Following the traditional dating of the exodus as 1446 bc (the “high” date), the Egyptian Pharaoh reigning during the times of oppression was Thutmose III and later his son Amenhotep II during the exodus. Thutmose III expanded the Egyptian empire as never before to the north, east, and south (possibly as far as Kenya today), then Amenhotep II consolidated the empire through massive building projects in Egypt.
PHARAOH Some Bible scholars date the exodus much later, around 1290 bc (the “low”date), putting it during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II, one of the most powerful pharaohs of Egypt’s New Kingdom period.
Exodus 1 – 6 Cry of the Nation Moses’s Birth The Burning Bush God’s Call to Lead
So Pharaoh ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. (Exodus 1:13 – 14)
She saw the basket among the reeds…and when she opened it, she saw the child and took pity on him…go and find a Hebrew woman to care and nurse the child…and she names him Moses, “Because – I drew him out of the water. Exodus 2
Exodus 7 – 13 The conflict between Pharaoh 10 Plagues Passover
Clash of the Gods In Egypt, pharaohs were considered to be divine beings. When Moses came to Pharaoh to ask for the release of God’s people, God and a false god, Pharaoh, clashed in a battle of wills and power. God showed his supremacy through the plagues. One way to understand the plagues is that they were direct attacks against the false gods of Egypt. God showed himself as victorious.
At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon…and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead