Exodus Flashcards
Israel increases greatly in Egypt
Exodus 1
Sons of Jacob
1 - Reuben
2 - Simeon
3 - Levi
4 - Judah
DNGA
5 - Dan
6 - Nephtali
7 - Gad
8 - Asher
IZ (JB)
9 - Issachar
10 - Zebulun
11 - (Joseph)
12 - Benjamin
How many descendents of Jacob were there when Joseph died?
70
“But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.”
Exodus 1:7
Pharaoh oppresses Israel
Exodus 1
2 store cities Pharaoh has the Israelite slaves build
Pithom and Raamses
Hebrew midwives
Shiphrah and Puah
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9 And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us.
Exodus 1:8
But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.
Exodus 1:12
But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.
Exodus 1:17
Pharaoh gives the command to cast every son born to the Hebrews to be cast into the Nile
Exodus 1
Birth of Moses
Exodus 2
Moses’ parents
Man from the house of Levi and his wife, who was a Levite woman
How long did Moses’ mom hide him?
3 months
What was the basket made of?
“Basket made of bulrushes and daubed with bitumen and pitch”
What does Moses mean?
“I drew him out of the water”
Moses flees to Midian
Exodus 2
How many daughters did Jethro have?
7 daughters
What was Moses’ father-in-law named?
Reuel, Jethro
Moses’ wife
Zipporah
Moses’ first son
Gershom - “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land”
God hears Israel’s groaning
Exodus 2
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.
Exodus 2:24-25
Summary of events in Exodus 2
- Birth of Moses (hidden for 3 months, found by Pharaoh’s daughter)
- Moses goes to see his people’s burdens, kills the Egyptian
- The next day, intercedes between the 2 Hebrews & flees to Midian
- Saves Reuel’s daughters, marries, has Gershom
- God hears the Israelites’ cries
How long did Moses’ mother nurse him for Pharaoh’s daughter
Until “when the child grew older”
Burning Bush
Exodus 3
What did Moses’ father-in-law do as an occupation?
Priest of Midian
Where did God appear to Moses as a burning bush?
Horeb, the mountain of God
And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
Exodus 3:2
According to God in Exodus 3, who lived in the promised land?
CHAP-HJ
- Canaanites
- Hittites
- Amorites
- Perizzites
- Hivites
- Jebusites”
How did God call Moses from the burning bush?
“Moses, Moses!”
Then the LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey..
Exodus 3:7-8a
“Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
Exodus 3:10
What are Moses’ objections to God’s call to send him?
“1 - Who am I? (3:11)
2 - What is your name? (3:13)
3 - Israel won’t believe (““The Lord didn’t appear to you””) (4:1)
4 - ““I am not eloquent”” (4:10)
5 - ““Please send someone else”” (4:13)
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What is the first sign that God gives Moses in chapter 3?
He said, “But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.” (3:12)
God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.
Exodus 3:14-15
What was the first request God told Moses to make of Pharaoh?
Go on a 3 day’s journey into the wilderness that they might sacrifice to God (3:18)
When does God first predict that Pharaoh will not relent and foreshadow the plagues and plundering of Egypt?
Exodus 3:19-22
What signs does God gives Moses to convince the Israelite elders?
”- Staff turning into a serpent (4:3)
- Hand becoming leprous (4:6)
- Pour out water from the Nile to the ground and it turns to blood (4:9)”
“Then the LORD said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD? Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.”
Exodus 4:11-12
When does Moses return to Egypt?
Exodus 4
How did Moses explain to Jethro why he wanted to go back to Egypt?
Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
What did Moses bring with him to Egypt?
His wife, sons, a donkey, the staff of God
What assurance did God give Moses when he left Midian?
“Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”
When does God first call Israel his firstborn son?
21 And the LORD said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. 22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the LORD, Israel is my firstborn son, 23 and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me.” If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’” (Exodus 4)
When does God send Aaron to Moses?
Exodus 4
And the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.
Exodus 4:31
Moses given powerful signs
Exodus 4
Moses returns to Egypt
Exodus 4
Why did the Lord want to put Moses to death at the lodging place from Midian to Egypt?
Moses’ son was not circumcised - “Bridegroom of blood”, Exodus 4
Making bricks without straw
Exodus 5
What was Moses’ initial request to Pharaoh?
Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.” (5:3)
What was Pharaoh’s response to Moses’ initial request?
Make the people make the same number of bricks but without giving them straw, so that they would “pay no regard to lying words”
Who was blamed in Exodus 5?
Moses and Aaron (by the foremen) and God (by Moses)
God promises deliverance (in the midst of discouragement)
Exodus 6
God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the LORD. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.
Exodus 6:2-3
Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.
Exodus 6:9
Geneaology fo Moses and Aaron
Exodus 6
Who were Moses’ parents?
Amram and Jochebed (of Levi)
Who was Aaron’s wife?
Elisheba
How many sons did Aaron have?
4 (Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar)
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh
Exodus 7
How old were Moses and Aaron when they first appeared before Pharaoh (the staff)?
Moses was 80, Aaron was 83
But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment. The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.
Exodus 7:3-5
Who does God say will know him when he delivers Israel?
The Egyptians (7:5)
What does Aaron’s staff do?
Becomes a serpent and swallows up the other staffs