Oct 24, Tue - Exodus Intro

Next Quiz/Test: Monday is Quiz 4a: Proverbs 6:16-19 (ESV)

Handouts: None given

Reminders:

- Service Project: The 10 hours, 2 forms, and 1 essay are due on Apr 23, 2017

- Book Report: Due Monday, Nov. 14 (report on TurnItIn.com; Art Project @ start of class)

- Devotion 1 Presentation: Be ready to present on your day! See class schedule.

Instructional Time: Unit 4: Exodus 1-20
Journal 4-2: Read Exodus 1:1-7

- 1) How many descendants of Jacob/Israel moved to Egypt with Joseph?
- - 70
- 2) v7) How did God bless these people of Israel? Write down the four words/phrases that explain this.
- - They... (See below)
- 3) How could this be a great thing for the people of Israel?
- - They grow in number and are a large group that can now be their own nation!
- 4) How could this be a dangerous thing for the people of Israel?
- - Various answers, but... if you were a natural Egyptian and you saw all these foreigners

The Pentateuch Table: Exodus (which means 'Exit')
- Key Idea: Redemption
- The Nation: Delivered (to set free)
- The People: Redeemed (which, like Redemption, means 'bought back' or 'saved,' it involves a price being paid to save something)
- God's Character: Merciful (time and time again in Exodus God's people do such sinful things that are like spitting in God's face! Yet God has mercy time and time again on them!)
- God's Role: Deliverer (of his people)
- God's Command: "Let my people go!"

Israel’s Beginnings:
- Exodus 1:6-7) The state of Israel, they
- - Were Fruitful!
- - Multiplied Greatly!
- - Became Exceeding Numerous!
- - The land was filled with them!
- - In general... There were a lot of them and they kept on growing!

- Ex 1:8-11) The Egyptians began to fear that Israel would fight against them, so they forced hard labor.
- - It sounds like the Israelites did not 'conform' to the Egyptian culture, so they were still their own distinct people.
- - Ex 1:12) Even though forced to work long and hard days, Israel still grew!

- Ex 1:15-16) Pharaoh gave a new command to keep Israel from growing
- - He told the midwives (who are nurses that delivers babies), "Kill the Israelite male children!"
- - Ex 1:17) The midwives did not do this because they feared God much more than Pharaoh, so God blessed them!
- - Ex 1:20) So... Israel still grew!

- Ex 1:22) Pharaoh gave another command, "Throw every newborn boy in the Nile River!"
- - This was now carried out by more than just midwives!
- - Perhaps his army would sweep the Israelite houses to see if they were hiding a child?
- - Who knows exactly, but this is where we come to the story of Moses!