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EXODUS 1-40

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From Joseph to the birth of Moses

Exodus
1:1-22,
2:1-8

Moses murders, flees to Midian, marries, meets God at the Burning Bush

Exodus
2:11-25,
3:1-10

‘I am’ Name of God, Three signs, Moses commissioned, Circumcision

Exodus
3:11-22,
4:1-31

Moses & Aaron to Pharaoh.. Bricks without straw. Moses’ family tree

Exodus
5:1-23,
6:1-30

Plagues: Blood, Frogs, Gnats, Flies.  Table of plagues

6:28-30,
7:1-25,
8:1-32

Plagues: Animal death, Boils, Hail, Locusts, Darkness. Pharaoh’s heart.

Exodus
9:1-35,
10:1-29

Plague: Death of Firstborn, Passover

10:27-29,
11:1-10,
12:1-51

Israelites leave Egypt. The armies of Pharaoh pursue them.

Exodus
13:1-22,
14:1-14

Crossing the Red Sea

Exodus
14:1-31,
15:1-18

Bitter water - healed, grumbling, quails, manna, Sabbath rest

Exodus
15:19-27,
16:1-36

Water from  rock, Amalekites defeated

Exodus
17:1-16,
18:1-27

At Mt. Sinai, ‘The finger of God’, Faith and salvation in the O.T.

Exodus
19:1-25,
20:1-21

The Ten Commandments given verbally

Exodus
20:1-17

Some laws expanded. Attitude to God and our fellow humans

Exodus
20:18-25,
21:1-36

Laws continued. Compassion. Offering : Sacrifice, Sabbath, Festivals

Exodus
22:1-31,
23:1-33

The Covenant. Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, sprinkled blood.

Exodus
24:1-18,
(23:20-33)

Tabernacle: Materials given, (Dugongs), Ark of Covenant, Table, Lampstand.

Exodus
25:1-40

Tabernacle: Frames and curtains, Altar, Courtyard, Lampstand oil.

Exodus
26:1-37,
27:1-21

Design of the Sacred Priestly Garments, Ephod, Breastpiece, etc.

Exodus
28:1-43

Instructions for the Consecration of Priests.

Exodus
29:1-46

Basin, Oil, Incense, Atonement money, Bezalel and Oholiab.

Exodus
30:1-38,
31:1-18

The Golden Calf.

Exodus
32:1-35

Moses pleads, Tent of meeting, God’s name, Ten Commandments.

Exodus
33:1-23,
34:1-35

Sabbath, offerings for construction of Tabernacle. Bezalel & Oholiab.

Exodus
35, 36
& 37

Tabernacle construction continued, women's offering, cloud of Glory.

Exodus
38,39
& 40

Hebrews 12:18-25


18 You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm; 19 to a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them, 20 because they could not bear what was commanded: ‘If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.’ 21 The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, ‘I am trembling with fear.’


22 But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, 23 to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.


25 See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven?


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