Exodus-The Departure From Egypt: Journey Through the Bible, #3

By Russell Sherrard

This is a Bible Study of Exodus in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible. The title "Exodus" means "a going out". It records the great numerical growth of the Israelites during their slavery in Egypt. It introduces Moses and records the plagues God brought upon Egypt to secure His people’s release from slavery. After this, the people are given the Law at Mount Sinai. The book concludes with a description of the order of worship which centres around the Law of Moses. This is the second book of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Jewish Scriptures.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Russell Sherrard
• Release date: Mar 22, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386872061

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Exodus: The Departure From Egypt

Russell Sherrard

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First published in United States, February, 2016

Copyright © Russell Sherrard

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Table of Contents

Study of Exodus Chapter 1

Study of Exodus Chapter 2

Study of Exodus Chapter 3

Study of Exodus Chapter 4

Study of Exodus Chapter 5

Study of Exodus Chapter 6

Study of Exodus Chapter 7

Study of Exodus Chapter 8

Study of Exodus Chapter 9

Study of Exodus Chapter 10

Study of Exodus Chapter 11

Study of Exodus Chapter 12

Study of Exodus Chapter 13

Study of Exodus Chapter 14

Study of Exodus Chapter 15

Study of Exodus Chapter 16

Study of Exodus Chapter 17

Study of Exodus Chapter 18

Study of Exodus Chapter 19

Study of Exodus Chapter 20

Study of Exodus Chapter 21

Study of Exodus Chapter 22

Study of Exodus Chapter 23

Study of Exodus Chapter 24

Study of Exodus Chapter 25

Study of Exodus Chapter 26

Study of Exodus Chapter 27

Study of Exodus Chapter 28

Study of Exodus Chapter 29

Study of Exodus Chapter 30

Study of Exodus Chapter 31

Study of Exodus Chapter 32

Study of Exodus Chapter 33

Study of Exodus Chapter 34

Study of Exodus Chapter 35

Study of Exodus Chapter 36

Study of Exodus Chapter 37

Study of Exodus Chapter 38

Study of Exodus Chapter 39

Study of Exodus Chapter 40

About the Author

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Author: Moses

Time: 1446 B.C.

Summary: The title Exodus means going out. It records the great numerical growth of the Israelites during their enslavement and oppression in Egypt. Moses emerges to lead God's people from slavery to the promised land of Canaan. At Mt Sinai, God gave Moses the laws which were to form the basis for the covenant between God and the new nation of Israel. They are summarised in the ten commandments. The book concludes with a description of the worship centred around the Tabernacle and the Law of Moses.

Key verse: I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey (3:8)

Main people: Pharaoh, Moses and his brother Aaron.

1. The liberation of Israel                        1:1-18:27

a) Introduction 1:1-7

b) Bondage in Egypt 1:8-22

c) Preparation of the deliverer 2:1-4:31

d) The mission of Moses to Pharaoh 5:1-7:7

e) The ten plagues in Egypt 7:8-11:10

f) The Passover and the departure of Israel 12:1-15:21

g) Journey to Sinai 15:22-18:27

2. Israel at Mt Sinai                        19:1-40:38

a) Establishment of the covenant at Sinai 19:1-24:18

b) Directions for the tabernacle and the priesthood 25:1-31:18

c) The covenant broken and restored 32:1-34:35

d) Building of the tabernacle 35:1-40:38

The word Exodus means going out. This book records the departure of Israel from Egypt. Israel was put in bondage by a new king in Egypt who feared that Israel might turn against them if Egypt entered into a war. He had all the boy babies of Israel killed, but Moses was miraculously spared by Pharaoh's daughter and trained by the Egyptians. Later God chose Moses to lead his people out of Egypt. God sent ten supernatural plagues on Egypt before Pharaoh would let Israel go. After Israel's departure, God hardened Pharaoh's heart to pursue Israel. God miraculously opened up the Red Sea for Israel to cross over but closed it up drowning the Egyptian army. God led Israel by day in a pillar of cloud and by night in a pillar of fire. He also miraculously provided food, water, and health. On Mt. Sinai God gave to Moses the law, the tabernacle plan and the priesthood.

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Study of Exodus Chapter 1

Exodus Chapter 1 Overview

Exo_1:1, The children of Israel, after Joseph's death, increase;

Exo_1:8, The more they are oppressed by a new king, the more they multiply;

Exo_1:15, The godliness of the midwives, in saving the men children alive;

Exo_1:22, Pharaoh commands the male children to be cast into the river.

Please Read Exodus Chapter 1

1:1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.

1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

1:4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

1:6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

1:7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

1:8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

1:9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:

1:10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.

1:11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

1:13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:

1:14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

1:15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

1:16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

1:18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?

1:19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.

1:20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

1:21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

1:22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

After reading the scripture, please answer the related review questions. If, after reading the scripture and trying to answer the question you find that you can't answer the questions please find the answers Appendix 1

Chapter 1 Questions

1. Approximately how many of the descendants of Jacob of Israel went to Egypt?

2. What can be said regarding the growth of the children of Israel in Egypt?

3. What did the new king of Egypt fear?

4. What two cities in Egypt did the Israelites build?

5. How did the Egyptians make the Israelites suffer?

6. What did the king of Egypt tell the Hebrew midwives to do?

7. Why didn't the Hebrew midwives obey Pharaoh?

8. After the midwives refused to kill the boy babies, what did Pharaoh command?

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Study of Exodus Chapter 2

Exodus Chapter 2 Overview

Exo_2:1, Moses is born, and in an ark cast into the flags;

Exo_2:5, He is found, and brought up by Pharaoh's daughter;

Exo_2:7, who employs his mother to nurse him;

Exo_2:11, He slays an Egyptian;

Exo_2:13, He reproves an Hebrew;

Exo_2:15, He flees into Midian, and marries Zipporah;

Exo_2:22, Gershom is born;

Exo_2:23, God respects the Israelites' cry.

Please Read Exodus Chapter 2

2:1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

2:2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

2:3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

2:4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

2:5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.

2:6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

2:7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

2:8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.

2:9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.

2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

2:11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.

2:12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

2:13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?

2:14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.

2:15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.

2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

2:17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

2:18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?

2:19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.

2:20 And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.

2:21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

2:22 And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

2:23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

2:24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

2:25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

After reading the scripture, please answer the related review questions. If, after reading the scripture and trying to answer the question you find that you can't answer the questions please find the answers Appendix 1

Exodus Chapter 2 Questions

1. Who gave Moses his name?

2. Of what tribe was Moses?

3. How was baby Moses spared from being killed?

4. Who was paid to nurse Moses?