Chapter 10- God Rescues the Chosen People Flashcards
When the number of Israelites continued to increase what did the Pharaoh order?
That all the Hebrew boys be drowned
What did the Hebrews have to do in the fields?
Make bricks and build great cities for the Egyptians
When one Hebrew woman could no longer safely hide her baby what did she do with him?
She put him in a basket and sent him down the Nile
Who found the Hebrew baby in the river?
The pharaohs daughter and her maids
What did she name the baby when she found him?
Moses which meant “drawn from the water”.
When Moses killed the Egyptian where did he go?
Midian
How did God reveal himself to Moses while he was on Mount Sinai tending sheep?
With a burning bush
When Moses saw the bush what did God tell him to do?
Take off his sandals because he was standing on holy ground
When God wanted Moses to go talk to the Pharaoh to lead his people out of Egypt, what what was one of his excuses?
Moses said “who am I to go?” God said “I will be with you” then Moses asked, “when the Israelites ask me who sent me what shall I tell them?” God replied “I am who am.”
What was Moses next excuse and what did God answer?
“I am a slow speaker and cannot speak well isn’t there someone else better able to speak for you?” but God answered “I will assist you Moses, your brother Aaron will go with you and speak for you.”
When Moses and Aaron got to Egypt what did the Pharaoh do after they told Gods message?
The Pharaoh ordered the slave drivers to work the Israelites harder
What did the Pharaoh think when Aaron stretched out his staff and struck the river and it turned red?
He was not impressed for the Nile has been polluted before.
What was God’s command after Aaron turn the Nile red?
To stretch his arm over the streams and canals for a plague of frogs came upon the land.
What did the families do to their door posts on the night of the Exodus?
They sprinkled blood of a sacrificial lamb on their door posts.
At midnight a loud wailing was heard from the house of the Egyptians, what had happened?
All of the firstborn sons had died even the Pharaoh’s son.
