Exodus 1 14
Exodus 1-14, Story of Moses
As the title of Exodus suggests, this book is about a mass departure from Egypt. This is a story of transition, of being freed from slavery and reminded of God’s powers. The purpose of Exodus is to tell the story of how God led the people of Israel out of bondage and into freedom, but also about the development of God's relationship with his people, of being saved by God in order to worship God.
Exodus begins in Egypt where the new Pharaoh feels that the people of Israel have grown too abundant. With the intention to suppress them, the Pharaoh declares the Hebrew people to be slaves of Egypt. However, their numbers continue to increase. In order to stop them from multiplying even more, Pharaoh orders that every son born to the Hebrews be thrown into the river. During this time a Levite woman gave birth to a son. Seeing that this was a fine child, the woman hid they baby for 3 months, when she was unable to hide him any longer she made a papyrus basket and floated him down the Nile River in hopes that he would be saved. At that very moment Pharaoh’s daughter came to the river to bathe. She heard the baby and saw the basket. She took the baby out of the water and raised him as her own son. The boy-child was Moses, God was protecting Moses even then and was using Pharaoh’s own daughter to save his life. God had begun to set his plan for Moses and the Hebrew people in place.
Moses grew up in the house of the Pharaoh, but knew he was Hebrew. When he had grown to adulthood, he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. Moses killed the Egyptian and hid his body. Fearing for his life, he fled to Midian. The Pharaoh died while Moses was in Midian, and a new Pharaoh took his place. This new Pharaoh did not know the Lord. Here is where the major conflict arises. The book of Exodus is, in effect, a battle between God (the protagonist) and Pharaoh (the antagonist).
The Lord is the main character in this story (book), and the principal
As the title of Exodus suggests, this book is about a mass departure from Egypt. This is a story of transition, of being freed from slavery and reminded of God’s powers. The purpose of Exodus is to tell the story of how God led the people of Israel out of bondage and into freedom, but also about the development of God's relationship with his people, of being saved by God in order to worship God.
Exodus begins in Egypt where the new Pharaoh feels that the people of Israel have grown too abundant. With the intention to suppress them, the Pharaoh declares the Hebrew people to be slaves of Egypt. However, their numbers continue to increase. In order to stop them from multiplying even more, Pharaoh orders that every son born to the Hebrews be thrown into the river. During this time a Levite woman gave birth to a son. Seeing that this was a fine child, the woman hid they baby for 3 months, when she was unable to hide him any longer she made a papyrus basket and floated him down the Nile River in hopes that he would be saved. At that very moment Pharaoh’s daughter came to the river to bathe. She heard the baby and saw the basket. She took the baby out of the water and raised him as her own son. The boy-child was Moses, God was protecting Moses even then and was using Pharaoh’s own daughter to save his life. God had begun to set his plan for Moses and the Hebrew people in place.
Moses grew up in the house of the Pharaoh, but knew he was Hebrew. When he had grown to adulthood, he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. Moses killed the Egyptian and hid his body. Fearing for his life, he fled to Midian. The Pharaoh died while Moses was in Midian, and a new Pharaoh took his place. This new Pharaoh did not know the Lord. Here is where the major conflict arises. The book of Exodus is, in effect, a battle between God (the protagonist) and Pharaoh (the antagonist).
The Lord is the main character in this story (book), and the principal