NOTES: EXODUS 1-5:
-Israelites are oppressed: the king of Egypt enslaved the Israelites and tried to kill off all the boys. However, because the midwives were obedient to God and did not kill the boys, God blessed them and increased their number. The Pharaoh commanded his people to throw all the boys into the Nile
-A Levite woman gave birth to a son, but did not kill him. When he was too old to hide, she made a basket and put the child in it along the banks of the Nile river. Pharaoh's daughter found the child and felt sorry for it, so he became her son, named Moses
-Moses flees to Midian after killing an Egyptian and being pursued by Pharaoh. By the time he returned to the Israelites, the king of Egypt died and the Israelites were crying out to God in their slavery
-God speaks to Moses through a burning bush, and He tells Moses that God plans to use him to bring his people out of Egypt
-"Moses said to the Lord, "O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.'
The Lord said to him, "Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say" (v11-12)
-Moses meets with his brother, Aaron, and tells him about the signs that he received from God. Together, they go to their people and the people worshipped.
-Moses and Aaron go to Pharaoh to free their people, but instead Pharaoh commands his soldiers to stop supplying straw to make bricks to the Israelites, and still demand the same quota to be reached. The Israelites complained to Moses and Aaron for their trouble, and Moses returns to the Lord.
EXODUS 12-14: PASSOVER
-The Lord instructs Moses to sacrifice a perfect lamb on the tenth day of the first lamb, and to smear its blood on the sides and tops of the doorframes to protect them from God's wrath toward the Egyptions
-Gives Moses instructions for Passover. Then at midnight, the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, including the firstborn of Pharaoh
-Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and tells them to go, and the Israelites did as the Lord instructied
-EXODUS 20: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
1). You shall have no other gods before me.
2). You shall not have any other idols
3) You shall not misuse the name of the Lord
4). Remember the Sabbath
5). Honor your father and your mother
6). You shall not murder
7). You shall not commit adultery
8). You shall not steal
9). You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor
10) You shall not covet
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