Free at Last in the Promised Land

By Timothy Best

Free at Last in the Promised Land goes into detail as how and why Moses, a common person, and the people of Israel left the slavery of Egypt to enter the promised land. Moses, the leader of the people of Israel, with great sacrifice and with God’s help, forced Egypt’s Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go, which put them on their way to the promised land. On their way to the promised land, the people of Israel committed great sins against God, and they were punished for their behaviors. Moses also disobeyed God, which caused him and his brother Aaron to not be allowed to enter the promised land. Also, along the way to the promised land, Moses and the people of Israel fought with their own distant relatives, and they were able to defeat them with God’s help and with God turning them into a great nation, as promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

There may be many who don’t know that there were two partings during Moses’s and the people of Israel’s march to the promised land: God’s parting of the Red Sea and Jordan River. There were also other major partings from the beginning—God separated the waters of heavens and of the earth. Elijah and Elisha were allowed to part the Jordan River with God’s help. Free at Last in the Promised Land is an essential reading for anyone who wonders about the deepest parts of the journey of Moses and the people of Israel’s march toward the promised land.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: May 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9781638446927

Timothy Best

Timothy Best has been a writer for more than twenty-five years. In the advertising business, tens of millions of people have seen or heard the TV and radio commercials he’s written and produced. He’s written for household brands such as A&W, Buick, Chrysler, General Electric, Jeep, Kmart, Little Caesar’s, Honda, and more recently, he’s been one of the writers that brings to life the highly popular character of Mayhem for Allstate Insurance. He is the recipient of over 180 advertising honors, and also teaches copywriting at the University of Alabama.

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Free at Last in the Promised Land

Timothy Best

Copyright © 2022 by Timothy Best

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Table of Contents

Exodus Chapter 1

Exodus Chapter 2

Exodus Chapter 20

Exodus Chapters 20–40

Leviticus Chapters 1–27

Numbers Chapters 1–36

Deuteronomy Chapters 1–3

Deuteronomy Chapters 4–25

Chapters 26–34

Author’s Note

In my first book, Should Adam Have Taken The Liberty to Rescue All Generations?, I talked a lot about what Adam should have done or maybe failed to do—to save all generations. In these coming chapters, I will be writing about God’s promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their descendants to make them into a great nation, even though Adam failed all generations. I will also take you all on Moses’s and the people of Israel’s journey from Egypt to the promised land, and God’s miraculous signs and wonders, and what had to be done—plagues. There has been no miraculous signs and wonders in Genesis compared to those during Moses’s time, and there never has been any others since. There will also be no adding or taking away from the Bible. Both books will be more or less the same.

Exodus Chapter 1

These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.

Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, but Israelites were fruitful and multiplied greatly and became exceedingly numerous so that the land was filled with them.

Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt, Look, he said to his people, the Israelites have become much too numerous for us. Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.

So, they put slaves masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptian came to dread the Israelites and worked them ruthlessly. They made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their hard labor the Egyptians used them ruthlessly.

The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth and observe them on the delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it a girl, let her live. The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?

The midwives answered Pharaoh, Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.

So, God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.

Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people; Every boy that is born you much throw into the Nile, but let every girl live. (Exodus 1:1–22)

Exodus Chapter 2

Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it. She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. This is one of the Hebrew babies, she said.

Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?

Yes, go she answered. And the girl went and got the baby’s mother. Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you. So the woman took the baby and nursed him. When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him