Review: Pentateuch & 10 Commandments
   - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers & Deuteronomy
   - 10 Commandments w/ hand illustrations
   - 10 Commandments – Caused people to sin more
   - Romans 5:20-21 - 20 The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more 21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. [1]
   - Even though you have learned the 10 commandments, it was not necessary because now we have the Spirit living in us.
   - The Law was not given to us:
      o   Romans 2: 12 All those who sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all those who sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous. 14 So, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, instinctively do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts. Their consciences confirm this. Their competing thoughts will either accuse or excuse them 16 on the day when God judges what people have kept secret, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus. [2]

Exodus 32:25 - Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them get out of control, resulting in weakness before their enemies. 26 And Moses stood at the camp’s entrance and said, “Whoever is for the Lord, come to me.” And all the Levites gathered around him. 27 He told them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Every man fasten his sword to his side; go back and forth through the camp from entrance to entrance, and each of you kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’” 28 The Levites did as Moses commanded, and about 3,000 men fell dead that day among the people. 29 Afterward Moses said, “Today you have been dedicated to the Lord, since each man went against his son and his brother. Therefore you have brought a blessing on yourselves today.”[3]
[1] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ro 5:20–21). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ro 2:12–16). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[3] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ex 32:25–29). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.

Leviticus
   - Offerings from the people
       o Chapter 1 – Burnt Offering
       o Chapter 2 – Grain Offering
       o Chapter 3 – Peace Offering
       o Chapter 4 – Sin Offering
       o Chapter 5 – Guilt Offering
   - The Regulations
       o Chapter 6 – Priestly Rules
       o Chapter 7 – Priestly Portions
   - Institution of the Priesthood
       o Chapter 8 – Aaron’s ordination
       o Chapter 9 – Priest’s Ministry
       o Chapter 10 – Nadab & Abihu
   - Uncleanness & Treatment
       o Chapter 11 – Unclean Food
       o Chapter 12 – After Childbirth
   - Diseases & Discharges
       o Chapter 13 – Skin Diseases
       o Chapter 14 – Skin Cleansing
       o Chapter 15 – Bodily Discharges
   - Holiness Code
       o Chapter 16 – Day of Atonement
       o Chapter 17 – Sacrifice & Food
       o Chapter 18 – Sexual Behavior
       o Chapter 19 – Personal Conduct
       o Chapter 20 – Serious Crimes
   - General Rules
       o Chapter 21 – Rules for Priests
       o Chapter 22 – Unworthy Offerings
       o Chapter 23 – The Festivals
   - Pleasing a Holy God
       o Chapter 24 – Eye for an Eye
       o Chapter 25 – The Year of Jubilee
       o Chapter 26 – Reward for Obedience
       o Chapter 27 – Vows to the Lord

Numbers
   - Census & Arrangement of Tribes
       o Chapter 1 – Census of Warriors
       o Chapter 2 – Positioning the Tribes
       o Chapter 3 – Census of Levites
       o Chapter 4 – Levite Duties
   - The Regulations
       o Chapter 5 – Purity of the Camp
       o Chapter 6 – Priestly Blessing
       o Chapter 7 – Tabernacle Offerings
       o Chapter 8 – Levites Dedicated
       o Chapter 9 – Second Passover
       o Chapter 10 – Israelites Leave Sinai
   - Desert Journey
       o Chapter 11 – The 70 Leaders
       o Chapter 12 – Miriam’s Leprosy
       o Chapter 13 – Caleb’s Report
       o Chapter 14 – 40 Years Punishment
   - Regulations & Challenges
       o Chapter 15 – Offering Rules
       o Chapter 16 – Lord’s Wrath
       o Chapter 17 – Aaron’s Staff
   - Duties of Levites
       o Chapter 18 – Levite Offerings
       o Chapter 19 – Water of Purification
   - Desert Journey
       o Chapter 20 – Moses’ Failure
       o Chapter 21 – The Bronze Snake
       o Chapter 22 – Balaam’s Donkey
       o Chapter 23 – Balaam’s Blessings
       o Chapter 24 – Balak & Balaam
       o Chapter 25 – Moab’s Seduction
   - Census & Rules
       o Chapter 26 – Second Census
       o Chapter 27 – Joshua Appointed
       o Chapter 28 – Feast of Weeks
       o Chapter 29 – Feast of Tabernacles
       o Chapter 30 – Family Vows
   - At the Edge of the Promised Land
       o Chapter 31 – Midian’s Battle
       o Chapter 32 – Transjordan Tribes
       o Chapter 33 – Israel’s Journey
   - Regulations for Settlement in Canaan
       o Chapter 34 – Boundaries of Canaan
       o Chapter 35 – Levite Towns
       o Chapter 36 – Inheritance Rules

Deuteronomy
   - Learning from the Past
       o Chapter 1 – Rebellion
       o Chapter 2 – Wilderness Years
       o Chapter 3 – Moses & Canaan
   - Moses Exhorts Israel
       o Chapter 4 – Call to Obedience
       o Chapter 5 – The Ten Commandments
       o Chapter 6 – Love God
       o Chapter 7 – Defeat the Enemy
   - Rules for Living
       o Chapter 8 – Remember & Obey
       o Chapter 9 – Victory by Grace
       o Chapter 10 – Fear God
       o Chapter 11 – Love & Obey
   - The Worship of God
       o Chapter 12 – Place for Worship
       o Chapter 13 – Idolatry Warning
       o Chapter 14 – Tithes
       o Chapter 15 – Sabbatical Year
   - The Leadership of the People
       o Chapter 16 – God’s Festivals
       o Chapter 17 – Rules for a King
       o Chapter 18 – The True Prophet
       o Chapter 19 – Criminal Laws
       o Chapter 20 – Rules for Warfare
   - The Individual & the Community Life
       o Chapter 21 – Social Laws
       o Chapter 22 – Sexual Purity
       o Chapter 23 – Worship Rules
       o Chapter 24 – Protecting the Weak
       o Chapter 25 – Honesty
       o Chapter 26 – Firstfruits & Tithes
   - The Covenant Renewal
       o Chapter 27 – Mt. Ebal Curses
       o Chapter 28 – Blessing & Curse
       o Chapter 29 – Covenant Review
       o Chapter 30 – Life or Death
   - The End of Moses’ Life
       o Chapter 31 – Joshua Appointed
       o Chapter 32 – Song of Moses
       o Chapter 33 – Final Blessings
       o Chapter 34 – Death of Moses

Leviticus
   - Portrays the rituals that priests must regulate and perform to maintain God’s presence with His people.
   - Primarily concerned with sacrifice and regulations for maintaining holiness.
   - Referred to as the “priests’ law,” “priests’ book,” and “the law of the offerings” in the Mishnah.[1]
   - 1-16 - Is written to Moses for Aaron and the priests on how to carry out sacrifices and rituals among the people and in interacting with the Tabernacle.
   - 17-27 – Is written for the people on how to retain and maintain holiness. (Holiness Code)
   - Leviticus portrayed the geographical bounds of sacred space. The tabernacle has three graded zones:
            1.  An outermost zone reserved for the common Israelite.[2] (Chapters 1-17)
            2.  An intermediate “priest only” holy zone (the Priestly Court). (Chapters 18-20)
            3.  The innermost holy place (holy of holies). (Chapters 25-27)

Numbers
   - Recounts the historic events of Israel’s experience with her God, Yahweh, from her time at Mount Sinai until her arrival at the plains of Moab.
   - The purpose of the book is that it sets many of the patterns of worship and behavior that would be necessary when they inhabited the promised land.
   - More specifically, it provides historic examples of the consequences for unfaithfulness and ungratefulness for Yahweh’s provision for them.[3]
   - Reasons for its name: There are two censuses in the book, one in chapters 1–4, and the other in chapter 26.
   - The first records a census of the generation that covenanted with Yahweh at Mount Sinai, the exodus generation.
   - It records the number of the men 20 years or older—men who were of fighting age—from every tribe but Levi (Num 1:2–54).
   - The same is true of the second census (26:1–65) with the exception that everyone from the generation was dead, except Caleb and Joshua.[4]
   - 38 years in the wilderness
   - These rebellion accounts share a common structure with the murmuring traditions in the book of Exodus.
             1. The people rebel or complain.
             2. God replies to the rebellion or complaint.
             3. Divine judgment follows.
             4. Moses intercedes.
             5. The judgment ends. 
             6. The people then name the site of the rebellion and judgment with a name that commemorates the event [5]
   - Caleb sent to scout the Promise Land that was flowing with milk and honey.
   - Caleb was ready but the rest of the men were not.

Deuteronomy
   - Presents a summary of the narrative of Exodus-Numbers and reiterates laws and regulations found in Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers.[6]
   - Deuteronomy = “Copy of the Law”
   - Deuteronomy’s teaching and wording gave shape to the message of the earlier prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings.
   - These books share a unified history and theology and have many similarities in theme and content with the book of Deuteronomy.
   - It also had a major impact on the message of the later prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the 12 Minor Prophets with their strong condemnation on idolatry and the choice of Jerusalem for the worship of God.
   - When Jesus was tempted by the evil one, He three times appealed to the words of Deuteronomy as His authoritative response (8:3; 6:16; 6:13).
   - Deuteronomy is quoted or alluded to almost 200 times elsewhere in the New Testament.[7]
   - There are three different approaches commonly used to explain the structure of Deuteronomy:
            1.  Deuteronomy consists of three farewell speeches of Moses.
            2.  Deuteronomy is an exposition on each of the Ten Commandments in order.
            3.  Deuteronomy is modeled after ancient Near Eastern treaties.[8]

Here are the take aways from these 3 books:
       1.   God clearly shows the cycle of sin, judgment, consequences, repentance and renewal.
       2.   God clearly shows that man is not capable of maintaining holiness on his own.
       3.   God redeemed his people from the physical bondage of the Egyptians
       4.   God lead his people to a Canaan Rest but they could never enter.
              Canaan Rest – Rest that came with trusting God to overcome the enemy. 
 
[1] Mooney, D. J. (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015). Leviticus, Book of. In J. D. Barry, D. Bomar, D. R. Brown, R. Klippenstein, D. Mangum, C. Sinclair Wolcott, … W. Widder (Eds.), The Lexham Bible Dictionary. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
[2] Mooney, D. J. (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015). Leviticus, Book of. In J. D. Barry, D. Bomar, D. R. Brown, R. Klippenstein, D. Mangum, C. Sinclair Wolcott, … W. Widder (Eds.), The Lexham Bible Dictionary. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
[3] Watson, G. (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015). Numbers, Book of. In J. D. Barry, D. Bomar, D. R. Brown, R. Klippenstein, D. Mangum, C. Sinclair Wolcott, … W. Widder (Eds.), The Lexham Bible Dictionary. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
[4] Watson, G. (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015). Numbers, Book of. In J. D. Barry, D. Bomar, D. R. Brown, R. Klippenstein, D. Mangum, C. Sinclair Wolcott, … W. Widder (Eds.), The Lexham Bible Dictionary. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
[5] Watson, G. (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015). Numbers, Book of. In J. D. Barry, D. Bomar, D. R. Brown, R. Klippenstein, D. Mangum, C. Sinclair Wolcott, … W. Widder (Eds.), The Lexham Bible Dictionary. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
[6] Walter C. Kaiser, J. (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015). Deuteronomy, Book of. In J. D. Barry, D. Bomar, D. R. Brown, R. Klippenstein, D. Mangum, C. Sinclair Wolcott, … W. Widder (Eds.), The Lexham Bible Dictionary. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
[7] Walter C. Kaiser, J. (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015). Deuteronomy, Book of. In J. D. Barry, D. Bomar, D. R. Brown, R. Klippenstein, D. Mangum, C. Sinclair Wolcott, … W. Widder (Eds.), The Lexham Bible Dictionary. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
[8] Walter C. Kaiser, J. (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015). Deuteronomy, Book of. In J. D. Barry, D. Bomar, D. R. Brown, R. Klippenstein, D. Mangum, C. Sinclair Wolcott, … W. Widder (Eds.), The Lexham Bible Dictionary. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

Exodus 16

   - 2.5 months upon leaving 430 years of slavery in Egypt the Israelites began talking about how much better they had it in Egypt.
   - Imagine if they had FB… all the grumbling (entire Israelites)
   - The provision of mannah for 40 years.
   - 2 quarts a day… maggots and rotten
   - 8 cups = 64 oz = 2 quarts = 1/2 gallon
   - Day 7… not available
Preserve 2 quarts for remembering

Exodus 17
   - Repeat of 16 except they wanted water this time.
   - Moses told them again… you are complaining against God.
   - Moses put staff in Nile and water was provided.
   - Then Joshua was told to battle Amalek
   - They would win as long as Moses held up his hands.
   - Aaron & Hur helped him hold up his arms.

Exodus 18
   - Jethro (Moses’ Father-in-Law) came to check on Moses (also brought his wife and kids)
   - Jethro assessed how God provided for Israelites
   - He also assessed what Moses was doing
   - Encouraged him to put faithful men in charge of duties that seemed as if only he could do them.

Exodus 19
   - God heard the Israelites and told Moses the plan to meet with him on Mt. Sinai.
   - Moses consecrated the people and told them to stay away from the holy mountain.

Exodus 20 (Ten Commandments)
Exodus 21 – Laws about injuries
Exodus 22 – Social Matters
Exodus 23 – 3 Annual Festivals
Exodus 24 – Covenant Confirmed
Exodus 25-31 – Tabernacle Revealed
   - Ark & lampstand
   - Curtains & walls
   - Altar & Court
   - Priestly Clothing
   - The Priests
   - Anointing Oil
   - The Sabbath
Exodus 32 – Golden Calf
Exodus 33-34 – Covenant Renewed
   - God’s Glory (Moses’ veil)
   - New Tablets
Exodus 35-40 – Tabernacle Construction
   - Materials
   - Skilled Artisans
   - The Ark
   - The Courtyard
   - Moses Inspects
   - God’s Glory

Exodus 40:34 -  The cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 35 Moses was unable to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud rested on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. [1]

Hebrews 11
1 Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen. 2 For our ancestors won God’s approval by it.
3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by God’s command, eso that what is seen has been made from things that are not visible.
4 By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was approved as a righteous man, because God approved his gifts, and even though he is dead, he still speaks through his faith.
5 By faith Enoch was taken away so he did not experience death, and he was not to be found because God took him away. For prior to his removal he was approved, since he had pleased God. 6 Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who draws near to Him must believe that He exists and rewards those who seek Him.
7 By faith Noah, after he was warned about what was not yet seen and motivated by godly fear, built an ark to deliver his family. By faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and went out to a place he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, coheirs of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
11 By faith even Sarah herself, when she was unable to have children, received power to conceive offspring, even though she was past the age, since she considered that the One who had promised was faithful. 12 Therefore from one man—in fact, from one as good as dead—came offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as innumerable as the grains of sand by the seashore.
13 These all died in faith without having received the promises, but they saw them from a distance, greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth. 14 Now those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15 If they were thinking about where they came from, they would have had an opportunity to return. 16 But they now desire a better place—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He received the promises and he was offering his unique son, 18 the one it had been said about, Your seed will be traced through Isaac. v19 He considered God to be able even to raise someone from the dead, and as an illustration, he received him back.
20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. 21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and he worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff. a22 By faith Joseph, as he was nearing the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the Israelites and gave instructions concerning his bones.
23 By faith, after Moses was born, he was hidden by his parents for three months, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they didn’t fear the king’s edict. 24 By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter 25 and chose to suffer with the people of God rather than to enjoy the short-lived pleasure of sin. 26 For he considered the reproach because of the Messiah to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, since his attention was on the reward.
27 By faith he left Egypt behind, not being afraid of the king’s anger, for Moses persevered as one who sees Him who is invisible. 28 By faith he instituted the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch the Israelites. 29 By faith they crossed the Red Sea as though they were on dry land. When the Egyptians attempted to do this, they were drowned. [2]
…
39 All these were approved through their faith, but they did not receive what was promised, 40 since God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect without us.[3]

Exodus 20 (Ten Commandments)
3 Do not have other gods besides Me.
4 Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth. 5 You must not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers’ sin, to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commands.
7 Do not misuse the name of the Lord your God, because the Lord will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses His name.
8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy: 9 You are to labor six days and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. You must not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the foreigner who is within your gates. 11 For the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then He rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy.
12 Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
13 Do not murder.
14 Do not commit adultery.
15 Do not steal.
16 Do not give false testimony against your neighbor.
17 Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor[4]

   - The greatest love story of all time…
   - “Jesus, I Believe” – Big Daddy Weave

[1] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ex 40:34–35). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Heb 11:1–29). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[3] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Heb 11:39–40). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[4] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ex 20:3–17). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.

Exodus 1
   - Chapter 1 begins where we left off in Genesis
   - Jacob (Israel) and his family of 70 transferred to Egypt with Joseph.
   - Then they died (v6)
7 But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous so that the land was filled with them.
8 A new king, who had not known Joseph, came to power in Egypt. 9 He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and powerful than we are. 10 Let us deal shrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply further, and if war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.” 11 So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor.
15 Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, 16 “When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them as they deliver. If the child is a son, kill him, but if it’s a daughter, she may live.”
   - Midwives did not carry this out because they feared God.

 21 Since the midwives feared God, He gave them families. 22 Pharaoh then commanded all his people: “You must throw every son born to the Hebrews into the Nile, but let every daughter live.”

Exodus 2 1 Now a man from the family of Levi married a Levite woman. 2 The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months. 3 But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile. 4 Then his sister stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him.
5 Pharaoh’s daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank. Seeing the basket among the reeds, she sent her slave girl to get it. 6 When she opened it, she saw the child—a little boy, crying. She felt sorry for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew boys.”
7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a woman from the Hebrews to nurse the boy for you?”
8 “Go,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy’s mother. 9 Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him. 10 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”
11 Years later, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. 12 Looking all around and seeing no one, he struck the Egyptian dead and hid him in the sand. 13 The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your neighbor?”
14 “Who made you a leader and judge over us?” the man replied. “Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?”
Then Moses became afraid and thought: What I did is certainly known. 15 When Pharaoh heard about this, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian, and sat down by a well.
   - Moses ends up marrying a Hebrew woman (Zipporah) and having a son with her.

23 After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, and they cried out; and their cry for help ascended to God because of the difficult labor. 24 So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 25 God saw the Israelites, and He took notice.

Exodus 3
   - Moses takes his flocks to Horeb and God appears to him in a burning bush.
   - God tells Moses He is very aware of the Hebrews situation and hears their cries.
   - Therefore, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh so that you may lead My people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”
11 But Moses asked God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
12 He answered, “I will certainly be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: when you bring the people out of Egypt, you will all worship God at this mountain.”
13 Then Moses asked God, “If I go to the Israelites and say to them: The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ what should I tell them?”
14 God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. fThis is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you.” 15 God also said to Moses, “Say this to the Israelites: Yahweh, 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; this is how I am to be remembered in every generation…

19 “However, I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go, unless he is forced by a strong hand. 20 I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My miracles that I will perform in it. After that, he will let you go.
   - God promises to provide for Hebrews and wipe out the Egyptians.

Exodus 4 
1 Then Moses answered, “What if they won’t believe me and will not obey me but say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”
   - Throw your staff down… snake... pick it up.
   - Stick your hand in your robe pull it out (diseased)
   - Do it again (healed)
   -  Moses then says he is not a good speaker.
   - God will speak for Moses
   - Take your brother Aaron with you.
   - Tell him what to say
   - I will work through both of you.
   - Don’t forget your staff
   - Moses took his family back to Egypt
21 The Lord instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, make sure you do all the wonders before Pharaoh that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he won’t let the people go.
   - Moses meets Aaron at Hebron
   - They make a game plan and gather everyone
   - Moses shows them God is in this
   - They believed and worshipped God.

Exodus 5 
1 Later, Moses and Aaron went in and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: Let My people go, so that they may hold a festival for Me in the wilderness.”
   - Pharaoh (different one) said I do not know your God
   - Pharaoh said to Moses that there was too much work to be done and couldn’t stop
   - Pharaoh them made it even harder on the Hebrews.
15 So the Israelite foremen went in and cried for help to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way? 16 No straw has been given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but it is your own people who are at fault.”
17 But he said, “You are slackers. Slackers! That is why you are saying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to the Lord.’ 18 Now get to work. No straw will be given to you, but you must produce the same quantity of bricks.”
   - Moses asked God why more trouble for his people?

Exodus 6
1 But the Lord replied to Moses, “Now you are going to see what I will do to Pharaoh: he will let them go because of My strong hand; he will drive them out of his land because of My strong hand.”
   - God reminded Moses of who He was and the promise He made to His ancestors.
   - God told Moses to remind the Hebrews.
   - God told Moses & Aaron to return to Pharaoh

Exodus 7
6 So Moses and Aaron did this; they did just as the Lord commanded them. 7 Moses was 80 years old and Aaron 83 when they spoke to Pharaoh.
8 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 9 “When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh. It will become a serpent.’ ” 10 So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord had commanded. Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent. 11 But then Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers—the magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same thing by their occult practices. 12 Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed their staffs. 13 However, Pharaoh’s heart hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.
   - God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
   - Staff in the Nile… river to blood… fish died, smelled bad
   - Then all water sources in Egypt were turned to blood.
   - Egyptian magicians did similar
   - 7 days passed

Exodus 8
   - God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
   - Plague of Frogs (magicians matched)
   - Pharaoh bartered with Moses
   - Take frogs away and I will respond
   - Frogs died except in the Nile
   - Pharaoh reversed his decision
   - Plague of gnats… rose up from the dust
   - Magicians could not match (finger of God)
   - God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
   - Plague of flys (only to Egyptians… not Goshen)
   - Pharaoh bartered with Moses
   - Take flies away and you can go worship

Exodus 9
   - God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
   - Plague of livestock
   - Pharaoh got report it was only the Egyptians animals that died
   - Pharaoh’s heart was still hardened
8 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of furnace soot, and Moses is to throw it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. 9 It will become fine dust over the entire land of Egypt. It will become festering boils on man and beast throughout the land of Egypt.” 10 So they took furnace soot and stood before Pharaoh. Moses threw it toward heaven, and it became festering boils on man and beast. 11 The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians as well as on all the Egyptians. 12 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had told Moses.
   - God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
   - All plagues & worst hail storm
   - Man and livestock were crushed by hail
   - Some crops destroyed
   - Pharaoh bartered with Moses
   - Hardened his heart again

Exodus 10
   - God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
   - Plague of locusts
   - Ate everything green
   - Pharaoh bartered with Moses (all families must go too)
   - Hardened his heart again
   - God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
   - Plague of darkness except in Goshen for 3 days
   - Pharaoh bartered with Moses (animals must go too)
   - Hardened his heart again

Exodus 11
   - God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
   - One more plague
4 So Moses said, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt, 5 and every firstborn male in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the servant girl who is behind the millstones, as well as every firstborn of the livestock. 6 Then there will be a great cry of anguish through all the land of Egypt such as never was before, or ever will be again. 7 But against all the Israelites, whether man or beast, not even a dog will snarl, so that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. 8 All these officials of yours will come down to me and bow before me, saying: Leave, you and all the people who follow you. After that, I will leave.’ ” And he left Pharaoh’s presence in fierce anger.
9 The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.” 10 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his land.

Exodus 12
   - God gave instruction to Moses
   - Take unblemished animal (you can share)
   - Sacrifice it at Twilight
   - Spread the blood over the door
   - Roast the meat and eat it all
   - Be prepared to leave
24 “Keep this command permanently as a statute for you and your descendants. 25 When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as He promised, you are to observe this ritual. 26 When your children ask you, ‘What does this ritual mean to you?’ 27 you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, for He passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and spared our homes.’ ” So the people bowed down and worshiped. 28 Then the Israelites went and did this; they did just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
29 Now at midnight the Lord struck every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and every firstborn of the livestock. 30 During the night Pharaoh got up, he along with all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud wailing throughout Egypt because there wasn’t a house without someone dead. 31 He summoned Moses and Aaron during the night and said, “Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites, and go, worship Yahweh as you have asked. 32 Take even your flocks and your herds as you asked and leave, and also bless me.”
   - Hebrews left quickly taking their unrisen dough
   - Egyptians paid the Hebrews to leave
 40 The time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.
   - They partook in the Passover meal

Exodus 13 
1 The Lord spoke to Moses: 2 “Consecrate every firstborn male to Me, the firstborn from every womb among the Israelites, both man and domestic animal; it is Mine.” …

6 For seven days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the Lord…

 18 So He led the people around toward the Red Sea along the road of the wilderness. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt in battle formation.
19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, because Joseph had made the Israelites swear a solemn oath, saying, “God will certainly come to your aid; then you must take my bones with you from this place.”
20 They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness. 21 The Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to lead them on their way during the day and in a pillar of fire to give them light at night, so that they could travel day or night. 22 The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night never left its place in front of the people. [1]

[1] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ex 1:1–13:22). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.

Genesis 39
1 Now Joseph had been taken to Egypt. An Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him there. 2 The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, serving in the household of his Egyptian master. 3 When his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made everything he did successful, 4 Joseph found favor in his master’s sight and became his personal attendant. Potiphar also put him in charge of his household and placed all that he owned under his authority. 5 From the time that he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house because of Joseph. The Lord’s blessing was on all that he owned, in his house and in his fields. 6 He left all that he owned under Joseph’s authority; he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate.
Now Joseph was well-built and handsome. 7 After some time his master’s wife looked longingly at Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”
8 But he refused. …

10 Although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her. 11 Now one day he went into the house to do his work, and none of the household servants were there. 12 She grabbed him by his garment and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his garment in her hand, he escaped and ran outside. 13 When she saw that he had left his garment with her and had run outside, 14 she called the household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “my husband brought a Hebrew man to make fools of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, and I screamed as loud as I could. 15 When he heard me screaming for help, he left his garment with me and ran outside.”
16 She put Joseph’s garment beside her until his master came home. 17 Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought to us came to make a fool of me, 18 but when I screamed for help, he left his garment with me and ran outside.”
19 When his master heard the story his wife told him—“These are the things your slave did to me”—he was furious 20 and had him thrown into prison, where the king’s prisoners were confined. So Joseph was there in prison.
21 But the Lord was with Joseph and extended kindness to him. He granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden. 22 The warden put all the prisoners who were in the prison under Joseph’s authority, and he was responsible for everything that was done there. 23 The warden did not bother with anything under Joseph’s authority, because the Lord was with him, and the Lord made everything that he did successful.

Genesis 40