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reflection on Exodus
03/08/14
The Hebrews become slaves to the Egyptians.
The king of Egypt became threaten by the Hebrews population.(Exodus1:9)
The king of Egypt feared the Israelites would team up with the enemies and go against them in war. (Exodus 1:9)
The king stated that they needed to come with a plan to get rid of the Israelites. “We must find a way to put an end to this, If we don’t and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us. Then they will escape the country”. (Exodus 1:10)
The Egyptians made the Israelites there slaves (Exodus 1:11)
They gave the Israelites heavy duty work to make them tire on purpose
They forced them to build cities (Exodus 1:11)
The more the Egyptian oppressed them, the more quickly the Israelites multiplied! (Exodus 1:12)
They Egyptians were ruthless with the Israelites , forcing them to work long hours and make bricks and walls ( Exodus 1:14)
The Pharaoh orders the midwives to kill all the baby boys at birth and allowed the girls to live (Exodus 1:15)
The Midwives feared God and refused to obey the king (Exodus 1:15)
The King confronts the midwives about not killing the babies; they responded that the Israelites give birth too fast and that they weren’t able to get there on time. They claim that the Egyptian women gave birth slower than the Hebrew women. (Exodus 1:20) Since the midwives feared God and obeyed God the Israelites continued to multiply (Exodus 1:20)
The midwives were blessed with their own families because they obeyed God (Exodus 1:21)
The Pharaoh continued to fear the Israelites so he ordered all his people to throw all the newborn baby boys into the Nile River, and he told them to spare the lives of the baby girls (Exodus 1:22)
The people of Levi got married and the women became pregnant (Exodus 2:1)
The mother of Moses kept him hidden until she could no longer hide him, the mother put the baby in a basket and laid him in the Nile River and the sister stood in a distance to

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