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Exodus 14

Exodus 14:1 Then Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,

Exodus 14:2 “Speak to the people of Israel and make them turn back and encamp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon; you will encamp facing it, by the sea.

Exodus 14:3 Because Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, ‘They are wandering in the land; the open country has shut them in.’

Exodus 14:4 And I will make Pharaoh’s heart strong, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am Yahveh.” And they did so.

Exodus 14:5 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had run, the mind of Pharaoh and his slaves was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have sent Israel away from slaving for us?”

Exodus 14:6 So he made ready his chariot and took his people with him,

Exodus 14:7 and took six hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them.

Exodus 14:8 And Yahveh made the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt strong, and he pursued the people of Israel while the people of Israel were going out defiantly.

Exodus 14:9 The Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them encamped at the sea, by Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.

Exodus 14:10 When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and noticed the Egyptians marching after them, they were very afraid. And the people of Israel cried out to Yahveh.

Exodus 14:11 They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the open country? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt?

Exodus 14:12 Is not this what we told you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone, so that we may serve the Egyptians’? Because it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the open country.”

Exodus 14:13 And Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, stand firm, and you will see Yahveh’s deliverance, which he will work for you today. Because the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again permanently.

Exodus 14:14 Yahveh will fight for you, and you have only to plow in.”

Exodus 14:15 Yahveh said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the sons of Israel to set out.

Exodus 14:16 Lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the sons of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground.

Exodus 14:17 And notice, I will make the hearts of the Egyptians strong so that they will go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his army, his chariots, and his riders.

Exodus 14:18 Then the Egyptians will know that I am Yahveh, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his riders.”

Exodus 14:19 Then the agent of God who had been going before the army of Israel repositioned and went behind them, so the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them,

Exodus 14:20 coming between the army of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and darkness. And it lit up the night without one coming near the other all night.

Exodus 14:21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahveh drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the water was divided.

Exodus 14:22 And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the water having become a wall for them on their right hand and on their left.

Exodus 14:23 Meanwhile, The Egyptians pursued and went in after them; all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen were there in the middle of the sea.

Exodus 14:24 At the morning watch Yahveh looked down upon the Egyptian army from the pillar of fire and cloud, and threw the Egyptian army into panic.,

Exodus 14:25 clogging their chariot wheels so that they had difficulty advancing. So, the Egyptians were saying, “Let us flee from before Israel, because Yahveh fights for them against the Egyptians.”

Exodus 14:26 Then Yahveh told Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, and the water will return upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.”

Exodus 14:27 So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, Yahveh shook off the Egyptians into the middle of the sea.

Exodus 14:28 The water returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the army of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them survived.

Exodus 14:29 But the people of Israel had walked on dry ground through the sea, the water had been a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

Exodus 14:30 This is how Yahveh saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

Exodus 14:31 Israel had witnessed the great hand that Yahveh used against the Egyptians, so the people feared Yahveh, and they believed in Yahveh and in his slave Moses.

Exodus 14 quotes:

“We don’t always know why God allows problems, but we know He intends to use them to heighten our maturity and deepen our faith. Trials and troubles are dumbbells and treadmills for the soul. They develop strength and stamina. Exodus 14 concludes by noting how the Israelites benefited from their narrow escape. It beefed up their faith for the great challenges ahead of them. The Israelites “feared the LORD, and believed the LORD and His-servant Moses.””

Morgan, Robert J. The Red Sea Rules : 10 God-given Strategies for Difficult Times. W. Publishing Group, 2014. p. 110.

“There can be no question that the text of Exodus 14 intends the readers to understand that Yahweh, the God of Israel, is the creator of the heaven and earth, and that all other gods are no gods at all. As discussed above, the crossing at the Red Sea is portrayed as nothing less than a miracle of God.”

Newsome, James D. Exodus. First edition, Westminster John Knox Press, 1998. p. 54.

“People use such expressions as “in a pinch,” “in a pickle,” “in a jam,” “up a tree,” “in a corner,” “hard-pressed,” or “between a rock and a hard place” to describe a predicament. But whatever the expression, the meaning is the same — someone is facing a troubling situation that cannot be easily escaped. These dilemmas are uncomfortable and nerve-racking. They often bring us to the end of our resources and threaten to drive us into despair. An ancient illustration of just such a predicament is found in Exodus 14. There we will discover how the Hebrews were rescued from a humanly impossible situation that involved the pursuing Egyptians.”

Swindoll, Charles R., and William D. Watkins. Moses, God’s Man for a Crisis Bible Study Guide from the Bible-Teaching Ministry of Charles R. Swindoll. Insight for Living ; Distributed by Word, Educational Products Division, 1985. p. 77.

Exodus 14 links:

barriers
Exodus- safety or glory-
introducing the breath of God
no way
witnessing the great hand
you will see the LORD’s deliverance

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EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 13

Exodus 13:1 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,

Exodus 13:2 “Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the sons of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.”

Exodus 13:3 Then Moses told the people, “Remember this day in which you exited Egypt, out from the house where you were a slave, because by strength of hand Yahveh rescued you from this slavery. No leavened bread is to be eaten.

Exodus 13:4 Today, in the month of Abib, you are going out.

Exodus 13:5 And when Yahveh brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he solemnly promised to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you are to keep this ritual in this month.

Exodus 13:6 Seven days you will eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there will be a feast to Yahveh.

Exodus 13:7 Unleavened bread will be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread is to be seen among you, and no leaven is to be seen with you in all your territory.

Exodus 13:8 You will tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what Yahveh did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

Exodus 13:9 And it will be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that what Yahveh instructs may be in your mouth. Because Yahveh has brought you out of Egypt with a strong hand.

Exodus 13:10 You will therefore keep this permanent prescription at its appointed time from year to year.

Exodus 13:11 “When Yahveh brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he solemnly promised to you and your fathers, and gives it to you,

Exodus 13:12 you are to set apart for Yahveh all that first opens the womb. All the firstborn of your animals that are males will be Yahveh’s.

Exodus 13:13 Every firstborn of a donkey you will redeem with a lamb, or if you choose not to redeem it you will break its neck. Every firstborn of man among your sons you will redeem.

Exodus 13:14 And when in time to come your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you should say to him, ‘By a strong hand Yahveh brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

Exodus 13:15 Because when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to send us away, Yahveh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of animals. For this reason, I sacrifice to Yahveh all the males that first open the womb, but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’

Exodus 13:16 It will be as a mark on your hand or frontlets between your eyes, because by a strong hand Yahveh brought us out of Egypt.”

Exodus 13:17 When Pharaoh sent the people away, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. Because God said, “The people might change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.”

Exodus 13:18 So God led the people around by the way of the open country toward the Red Sea. And the sons of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt grouped in fifties.

Exodus 13:19 Moses took the mummified remains of Joseph with him, because Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly promise, and this is what he said, “God will surely visit you, then you are to carry up my mummified remains with you from here.”

Exodus 13:20 And they moved on from Succoth and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the open country.

Exodus 13:21 And Yahveh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day and by night.

Exodus 13:22 The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not leave the presence of the people.

Exodus 13 quotes:

“Before leaving Exodus and seeing what the New Testament makes of some of these events, we should notice Exodus 13:1-2 and 13:11-13. These verses talk about the concept of the firstborn. Exodus 4:22 made clear that Israel was God’s son. God delivered his son out of Egypt (or ‘redeemed’ him from Egypt) at the cost of the death of Egypt’s firstborn sons. As a result of this, the firstborn of every womb in Israel belongs to God. However, God allows a substitute to take place, and ceremonies where substitutes are sacrificed are to be observed by the Israelites as a continual reminder of the lengths that God will go to in order to save his firstborn son, Israel. The redeeming of a donkey with a lamb symbolically represents what God did for Israel in the tenth plague.”

Reid, Andrew. Out of Darkness : Exodus 1- 18. Matthias Media, 2005. p. 46.

“Moses and his brother Aaron confronted Pharaoh, and after a series of ten plagues, culminating in the death of all of the firstborn in Egypt, led the children of Israel out of Egypt to the land God had promised them. Jehovah went before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night (Exodus 13:21-22). On the way, in the wilderness, the glory of God appeared to Moses and the children of Israel (Exodus 16:7-10). Later, at Mount Sinai, God manifested His glory several times to the children of Israel in a series of wonderous events (Exodus 19:1 through 31:35). He also revealed His glory from time to time during the forty years in the wilderness.”

Hanson, H. Allen. They Shall See God. Xulon Press, 2010. p. 81.

“The pillar was also the guide, leading the people on, and stopping each night and at other times for a period of encampment. It was the guide for forty years. Indeed, we could go a little further in considering the pillar of fire. The common understanding is that the pillar went before the people as their guide, in the form of the pillar of cloud, and that is true. We therefore tend to think that the pillar of fire was more static, for the people were normally camped at night, when the pillar took that form. But Exodus 13:21 makes it clear that on occasion the Israelites travelled by night as well as by day. What they had to do was to follow the pillar when it lifted from its place. And when they travelled at the command of the pillar by night it not only guided and protected them, it also illuminated the actual path in which they had to tread.

Lyall, Francis. The I Ams of Jesus. Mentor, 1996. p. 57.

Exodus 13 links:

going up unprepared
the LORD brought us out of Egypt
what the LORD did for me

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EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 12

Exodus 12:1 While they were still in the land of Egypt, Yahveh told Moses and Aaron

Exodus 12:2 “This month will be the beginning of months for you. It will be the first month of the year for you.

Exodus 12:3 Tell all the congregation[1] of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man will take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a house.

Exodus 12:4 And if the house is too small to eat an entire lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor will share according to the number of throats; according to what each can eat you will make your count for the lamb.

Exodus 12:5 Your lamb will be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats,

Exodus 12:6 and you will keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will kill their lambs at twilight.

Exodus 12:7 “Then they will take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.

Exodus 12:8 They will eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they will eat it.

Exodus 12:9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts.

Exodus 12:10 And you will let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you will burn.

Exodus 12:11 In this manner you will eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you will eat it in haste. It is Yahveh’s Passover.

Exodus 12:12 Because I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and I will condemn all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahveh.

Exodus 12:13 The blood will be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will come upon you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:14 “This day will be for you a memorial day, and you will keep it as a feast to Yahveh; throughout your generations, as a permanent prescription,[2] you will keep it as a feast.

Exodus 12:15 Seven days you will eat unleavened bread. On the first day you will remove leaven out of your houses, because if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that throat will be cut off from Israel.

Exodus 12:16 On the first day you will hold a sacred assembly, and on the seventh day a sacred assembly. No work will be done on those days. But what every throat needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you.

Exodus 12:17 And you will observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because on this very day I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Because of this, you will observe this day, throughout your generations, as a permanent prescription.

Exodus 12:18 In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you will eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.

Exodus 12:19 For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that throat will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreign guest or a native of the land.

Exodus 12:20 You will eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you will eat unleavened bread.”

Exodus 12:21 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Draw out and take lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb.

Exodus 12:22 Take a cluster of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and brush the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you should go out of the door of his house until the morning.

Exodus 12:23 Because Yahveh will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, Yahveh will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike.

Exodus 12:24 You are to observe this ritual as a permanent prescribed task for you and for your sons forever.

Exodus 12:25 So when you come to the land that Yahveh will give you, as he has promised, you will keep this practice.

Exodus 12:26 And when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this practice?’

Exodus 12:27 you will say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Yahveh’s Passover, because he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but stripped our houses.’ “And the people bowed down low.

Exodus 12:28 Then the people of Israel went and did so; just as Yahveh had commanded Moses and Aaron, this is what they did.

Exodus 12:29 At midnight Yahveh 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 house of the pit, and all the firstborn of the livestock.

Exodus 12:30 And Pharaoh got up in the night, he and all his slaves and all the Egyptians. And there was a great outcry in Egypt, because there was not a house where someone was not dead.

Exodus 12:31 Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go away from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve Yahveh, as you have said.

Exodus 12:32 Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also!”

Exodus 12:33 The Egyptians made the people strong so they could go away from the land quickly. Because they said, “We are all dead.”

Exodus 12:34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.

Exodus 12:35 The sons of Israel had also done as Moses told them, because they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing.

Exodus 12:36 And Yahveh had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked for. This is how they stripped the Egyptians.

Exodus 12:37 And the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, with about six hundred platoons of foot soldiers, separated from their children.

Exodus 12:38 An ethnically mixed company also went out with them, and very many flocks and herds of livestock.

Exodus 12:39 And they had baked unleavened loaves of the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, because it had not been leavened, since they were thrust out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared any provision for themselves.

Exodus 12:40 The time that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.

Exodus 12:41 At the end of 430 years, on that very day, all the armies of Yahveh went out from the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:42 It was a night of watching by Yahveh, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night when the sons of Israel keep watch for Yahveh throughout their generations.

Exodus 12:43 And Yahveh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the permanent prescription of the Passover: no outsider is to eat of it,

Exodus 12:44 but after you have circumcised him, any slave that a man has purchased with silver may eat of it.

Exodus 12:45 A temporary resident or hired servant is not to eat of it.

Exodus 12:46 It will be eaten in one house; you will not take any of the meat outside the house, and you will not break any of its bones.

Exodus 12:47 All the congregation of Israel will keep it.

Exodus 12:48 If a foreigner is your guest and wants to keep the Passover to Yahveh, make sure all his males are circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he will be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person is allowed to eat it.

Exodus 12:49 There will be one instruction[3] for the native and for the foreigner who is a guest among you.”

Exodus 12:50 All the people of Israel did just as Yahveh commanded Moses and Aaron.

Exodus 12:51 And on that very day Yahveh brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

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[1] עֵדָה = congregation. Exodus 12:3, 6, 19, 47; 16:1, 2, 9, 10, 22; 17:1; 34:31; 35:1, 4, 20; 38:25.+

[2] חֻקָּה = prescription. Exodus 12:14, 17, 43; 13:10; 27:21; 28:43; 29:9.

[3]תּוֹרָה = instruction. Exodus 12:49; 13:9; 16:4, 28; 18:16, 20; 24:12.

Exodus 12 quotes:

“The narrative of the first Passover is a pivotal story in the Old Testament from which the Jews have derived great inspiration over the centuries, and in which Christians have found ways to better understand the death of Jesus Christ.”

Newsome, James D. Exodus. First edition, Westminster John Knox Press, 1998. p. 37.

“God directed His plagues against the idolatry in Egypt, against Pharaoh, and against Satan. It was a battle of the gods. Exodus 12:12 confirms it: “For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.” God exposed the gods of Egypt as false, and He revealed to Israel His ability to deliver them. These Israelites had been born in the brickyards in the midst of idolatry, and God had to show them that He was superior.”

McGee, J. Vernon. Exodus Chapters 1-18. Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1991.
p. 48.

“The yearly timing of the Passover gives us further insight into its symbolism and significance for God’s people. The way nations and cultures mark their months and years often reveals something about their religion. The events described in Exodus 12 mark a very important time in Israel’s history when the children of Israel began to divide the year into months. From the standpoint of a religious calendar, the Passover and the exodus would begin the first month. So the new year for Israel is now grounded not in nature-renewal but in a redemptive-historical event —the Passover and exodus. The Egyptian new year began with the onset of the flood of the Nile. In structuring their calendars all the ancient cultures followed nature or lunar movement, but not Israel: “Such a revolutionary phenomenon is without analogy in the ancient world.”’ God’s redemptive act would commence the Israelite new year. At the center of Israel’s life as a nation would stand the remembrance of God’s redemption.”

White, John H. Slavery to Servanthood. Great Commission Publications, 1987. p. 85.

Exodus 12 links:

a consecrated community
all about a Promise (part 1)
brush with death
deployed for a mission
Exodus- remember
rescue by grace
sendoff
signs for the believers
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EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 11

Exodus 11:1 Yahveh had told Moses, “Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will send you away from here. When he sends you away, he will expel you, and it will be complete.

Exodus 11:2 Now tell this in the hearing of the people, so that they ask, every man from his neighbor and every woman from her neighbor, for silver and gold jewelry.”

Exodus 11:3 And Yahveh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. In addition to this, the man Moses was influential in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s slaves and in the sight of the people.

Exodus 11:4 So Moses said, “Thus says Yahveh: Around midnight I will go out in the midst of Egypt,

Exodus 11:5 and every firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

Exodus 11:6 There will be a great outcry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again.

Exodus 11:7 But not a dog will stick out its tongue against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, so that you may know that Yahveh makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.

Exodus 11:8 And all these your slaves will come down to me and bow down to me, and this is what they will say, ‘Go out, you and all the people who follow you.’ And after that I will go out.” And he went out from Pharaoh with a burning nose.

Exodus 11:9 And Yahveh had said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my miracles may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

Exodus 11:10 Moses and Aaron did all these miracles before Pharaoh, and Yahveh made Pharaoh’s heart strong, and he did not send the people of Israel away from his land.

Exodus 11 quotes:

“Now our fanciful flight of imagination connects us with the culture of today that says, image supercedes substance. Consider what part perception plays in the name of politics and market place advertising. Much is based on illusion, being deceived by a false perception or belief, rather than fact and reality. But now we read Exodus 11:4 and see that Moses is convinced of power, not based on illusion, but on God.”

Younger, Tom. Tom’s Thought Provokers : Gems from a Pastor’s Heart. 1stBooks, 2004. p. 246.

“Exodus 11:5, “from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the female slave who is behind the handmill,” suggests that Egyptians were also slaves in this house of bondage.”

Dykstra, Laurel. Set Them Free : The Other Side of Exodus. Orbis Books, 2002. p. 191.

“Exodus 11 is a transitional chapter in several ways. Moses’ final conversation with Pharaoh continues from Exodus 10. Having been warned by Pharaoh never to appear before him again, Moses delivers the warning of the tenth plague, the death of the firstborn (vv. 4-8). Verses 1-3, however, contain God’s instructions for asking for silver and gold articles from the Egyptians. The chapter as a whole marks the ending of the first nine plagues (chs. 7-10), provides the announcement of the final plague to Pharaoh, and introduces the beginning of the exit from Egypt (chs. 11-15).”

Bruckner, James K. Exodus. Hendrickson Publishers ; Paternoster, 2008. p. 104.

Exodus 11 links:

a heart too heavy
Exodus- life, grace and deliverance

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Exodus 10

Exodus 10:1 Then Yahveh told Moses, “Go see Pharaoh, because I have hardened his heart and the heart of his slaves, in order that I may show these, my signs, among them,

Exodus 10:2 and in order that you may tell in the hearing of your son and of your grandson how I have humiliated the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them, so that you may know that I am Yahveh.”

Exodus 10:3 So Moses and Aaron saw Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what Yahveh, the God of the Hebrews, says, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Send my people away, so that they may serve me.

Exodus 10:4 Because if you refuse to send my people away, notice, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory,

Exodus 10:5 and they will cover the face of the land, so that no one can see the land. And they will eat whatever is left to you that escaped the hail, and they will eat every tree of yours that is growing in the orchard,

Exodus 10:6 and they will fill your houses and the houses of all your slaves and of all the Egyptians, something neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day they came to the land to this day. ‘Then he turned around and went out from Pharaoh.

Exodus 10:7 Then Pharaoh’s slaves said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Send the husbands away, that they may serve Yahveh their God. Do you not yet understand that Egypt is destroyed?”

Exodus 10:8 So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. And he said to them, “Go, serve Yahveh your God. But which ones are to go?”

Exodus 10:9 Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old. We will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, because we must hold a feast to Yahveh.”

Exodus 10:10 But he said to them, “Let it be so” Yahveh be with you, when I send you and your little ones away! See, you have evil in mind.

Exodus 10:11 Not so! Go now, the men among you, and serve Yahveh, because that is what you are asking.” And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

Exodus 10:12 Then Yahveh told Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they may come upon the land of Egypt and eat every plant in the land, all that the hail has left.”

Exodus 10:13 So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and Yahveh brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts.

Exodus 10:14 The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and rested on the whole territory of Egypt; it had never been so very heavy with locusts before, nor will it ever be again.

Exodus 10:15 They covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit from the trees that the hail had left. Not a green thing remained, neither tree nor plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 10:16 Then Pharaoh quickly called Moses and Aaron and said, “I have failed Yahveh your God, and against you.

Exodus 10:17 So now, forgive my sin, please, this time, and plead with Yahveh your God to remove this sure death from me.”

Exodus 10:18 So he went out from Pharaoh and pleaded with Yahveh.

Exodus 10:19 And Yahveh turned a very strong sea wind, which removed the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.

Exodus 10:20 But Yahveh made Pharaoh’s heart strong, and he did not send the sons of Israel away.

Exodus 10:21 Then Yahveh told Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, and there will be darkness over the land of Egypt and let that darkness cause people to feel around with their hands.”

Exodus 10:22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was deep darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

Exodus 10:23 No man saw his brother, nor did any man leave from under his roof for three days, but all the people of Israel had light where they lived.

Exodus 10:24 Then Pharaoh called Moses and said, “Go, serve Yahveh; your little ones also may go with you; only let your flocks and your herds remain behind.”

Exodus 10:25 But Moses said, “You must also give us sacrifices and ascending[1] offerings, so that we may present them to Yahveh our God.

Exodus 10:26 Our livestock also must go with us; not a hoof will be left behind, because we must take of them to serve Yahveh our God, and we will not know with what we must serve Yahveh until we arrive there.”

Exodus 10:27 But Yahveh made Pharaoh’s heart strong, and he would not let them go.

Exodus 10:28 Then Pharaoh said to him, “Go away from me; keep yourself from ever seeing my face again, because on the day you see my face you will die.”

Exodus 10:29 Moses said, “You said that right! I will never again see your face.”

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[1] עֹלָה = ascending. Exodus 10:25; 18:12; 20:24; 24:5; 29:18, 25, 42; 30:9, 28; 31:9; 32:6; 35:16; 38:1; 40:6, 10, 29.

Exodus 10 quotes:

“Clouds of locusts swept over the land blocking out the sun. They picked the trees clean, as well as herbs and crops of the field. Exodus 10:14 tells how the effects of the plague were so devastating that nothing like it had ever been witnessed in history. This was the eighth plague and would have been seen as a defeat of Oswiris (known to the Greeks as Osiris), who was supposed to be the protector of crops. His burial was often reenacted annually in ancient Egypt, and his “resurrection” was evidenced by corn sprouting from the site which the Egyptians believed was his grave.””

Long, James D. The Riddle of the Exodus. Lightcatcher Books, 2002. p. 86.

“10:1-2 / “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials.” The first two verses of Exodus 10 give reasons (“so that”) for the Lord’s actions. The explanations are brief, but they are critical to understanding who the Lord is. The focus is on the Israelites and their progeny: so that I may perform these miraculous signs of mine among them that you may tell your children and grandchildren.”

Bruckner, James K. Exodus. Hendrickson Publishers ; Paternoster, 2008. p. 96.

“Moses insisted, “Our livestock too must go with us; not a hoof is to be left behind” (Exodus 10:26). All we have and are is needed to serve our God. Sacrificing to Jehovah involves everything. A Christian commitment is not merely spiritual, it is a lifestyle touching the warp and woof of everyday life. Our person and our possessions are involved.”

Briscoe, Jill. Here Am I, Lord– Send Somebody Else : How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things. W Pub. Group, 2004. p. 67.

Exodus 10 links:

introducing the breath of God
no more bargaining
Perish the thought
remove this sure death
so that we may know
The sky God is supreme

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Wednesday, March 15, 2023

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EXODUS in Jeff’s library