The Exodus

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The Exodus

• Exodus 1-19
• Moses, the Plagues, the Passover,
• in the desert to Mt. Sinai

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Ancient references
Stele of Hammurabi from Babylon (18th century
BCE). It records a deity giving laws to people
that resemble Israels laws
Stele of Merneptah (1200s BCE) It contains the
first known extrabiblical reference to Israels
existence. He claims to have devastated land of
Canaan and its people.
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Egyptian images of Semites making bricks
Exodus 54-14 Egyptian tomb paintings from around
the 15th Century BCE. Showing Semitic people
doing the same kind of work described in Exodus 5.
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Ramses II (1290-1224 BCE)
Ramses II is thought by many to be the unnamed
Pharaoh of the Exodus. He had enormous power.
Wears a royal headdress and his scepter
symbolizes his absolute control of the state.
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Exodus 313-15

• The Divine Name Revealed
• 13 But Moses said to God, If I come to the
  Israelites and say to them, The God of your
  ancestors has sent me to you, and they ask me,
  What is his name? what shall I say to them?
  14God said to Moses, I am who I am. He said
  further, Thus you shall say to the Israelites,
  I am has sent me to you. 15God also said to
  Moses, Thus you shall say to the Israelites,
  The Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of
  Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,
  has sent me to youThis is my name for
  ever,and this my title for all generations.

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Exodus 61-6

• Then the Lord said to Moses, Now you shall see
  what I will do to Pharaoh Indeed, by a mighty
  hand he will let them go by a mighty hand he
  will drive them out of his land.
• 2 God also spoke to Moses and said to him I am
  the Lord. 3I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and
  Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name The
  Lord I did not make myself known to them. 4I
  also established my covenant with them, to give
  them the land of Canaan, the land in which they
  resided as aliens. 5I have also heard the
  groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians
  are holding as slaves, and I have remembered my
  covenant. 6Say therefore to the Israelites, I am
  the Lord, and I will free you from the burdens of
  the Egyptians and deliver you from slavery to
  them. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm
  and with mighty acts of judgement.

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Redeem

• ???? /ga'al/ or /gaw-al'/
• A primitive root, to redeem (according to the
  Oriental law of kinship), that is, to be the next
  of kin (and as such to buy back a relatives
  property, marry his widow, etc.) purchase,
  ransom, redeem (-er).
• See Leviticus 2547-49

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The Promised Land

• The land he swore to give to your ancestors
• A land flowing with milk and honey
• The land of Canaan
• The land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the
  Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
• The land where you were

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Go Down Moses
Louis Armstrong Version
"And the LORD spake unto Moses, go unto Pharaoh,
and say unto him,thus saith the LORD, Let my
people go, that they may serve me." Exodus 81
Go down Moses way down in Egypt land, tell old
Pharaoh toLet My People Go! Now, When Israel was
in Egypt land...Let My People Go! Oppressed so
hard they could not stand...Let My People Go! So
the Lord said 'Go down, Moses way down in Egypt
land, tell old Pharaohs toLet My People Go! So
Moses went to Egypt land...Let My People Go! He
made all Pharaoh understand...Let My People
Go! Yes The Lord said 'Go down, Moses way down in
Egypt land, tell old Pharaohs toLet My People
Go! Thus spoke the Lord, bold Moses saidLet My
People Go! 'If not I'll smite, your firstborn's
dead'Let My People Go! Cause the Lord said 'Go
down, Moses way down in Egypt land, tell old
Pharaoh toLet My People Go! tell old Pharaoh to
let My People Go Notice the call and
response Learn more about Spirituals
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The Passover

• Exodus 12
• Slaughter a male, unblemished lamb one per
  family
• Eat it that night
• Put its blood on the doorposts and lintel (above
  the door)
• Eat it with unleavened bread
• Eat it with bitter herbs
• Roast is whole (roasting ensures that the blood
  is out) blood belongs to god. Its a symbol of
  life)
• Burn all leftovers
• Eat it hurriedly
• Blood is a sign and means the angel of death will
  Passover (1213)

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The tenth plague
Death of the Pharaoh's Firstborn Son, Laurens
Alma Tadema, 1872
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The Passover
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A possible escape route
This map shows a possible route the Israelites
may have taken across the Sinai peninsula away
from Egypt to the promised land that flows with
milk and honey.
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Tefillin (or phylacteries)
The Tefillin (in English, phylacteries) are small
leather boxes with straps that can be tied on the
arm and around the head. Inside are parchment
which contain verses from four sections of the
Torah. The Tefillin worn on the arm represents
the opportunity to serve God with the body
through doing commandments, and the tefillin on
the head represents the ability to serve God with
the mind through study and belief.
Exodus 139 It shall serve for you as a sign on
your hand and as a reminder on your forehead, so
that the teaching of the Lord may be on your
lips for with a strong hand the Lord brought you
out of Egypt. See also Deuteronomy 6 4-9
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The Song of MosesExodus 15

• (Notice examples of parallelism. It may have
  been sung in a call and response format)
• Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to
  the Lord
• I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed
  gloriously   horse and rider he has thrown into
  the sea. The Lord is my strength and my
  might,   and he has become my salvationthis is
  my God, and I will praise him,   my fathers
  God, and I will exalt him. The Lord is a
  warrior   the Lord is his name.

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The Song of Moses (cont.)

• Pharaohs chariots and his army he cast into
  the sea   his picked officers were sunk in the
  Red Sea. The floods covered them   they went
  down into the depths like a stone. Your right
  hand, O Lord, glorious in power   your right
  hand, O Lord, shattered the enemy. In the
  greatness of your majesty you overthrew your
  adversaries   you sent out your fury, it
  consumed them like stubble. At the blast of your
  nostrils the waters piled up,   the floods stood
  up in a heap   the deeps congealed in the heart
  of the sea. The enemy said, I will pursue, I
  will overtake,   I will divide the spoil, my
  desire shall have its fill of them.   I will
  draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. You
  blew with your wind, the sea covered them

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Complaints after leaving Egypt
Verse Situation Complaint Response
1411 When Egyptian army is closing in. Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? Pillar of fire protects them
1524 When the water is bitter and they cannot drink And the people complained against Moses saying, What shall we drink? Moses throws a piece of wood into the water and it becomes sweet
162 When they feel hungry (they remember the fleshpots of Egypt) If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate our fill of bread for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger. Given quail at night and manna in the morning (Supernatural food), and rules about dealing with it.
173 No water Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst? Moses strikes rock and water comes out
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Hero Quest Pattern

• Joseph Campbell, Hero with a Thousand Faces.
  The Monomyth
• Special birth (Danger, orphan, royalty, thought
  dead)
• Leaves home and lives with others.
• A traumatic event leads to adventure. A herald
  call the hero to adventure.
• The hero has a unique weapon. It only works for
  him.
• Helped by supernatural forces.
• Faces many trials. Proves self again and again.
  Faces self.
• The Journey into hell, unhealable wound, scar.
• Atones for sins of the father.
• When the hero dies, he is rewarded spiritually.