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• How Exodus comes 400 years after Genesis, yet never misses a beat of the song.

• Why, when you find out what “Yahweh” really means, you can only say it in reverence.

• Why Moses never won “Husband of the year.”

• Why a recent survey of firstborns indicates a strong preference for pass “overs” versus pass “throughs”

Preview for Exodus 1-12

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Gen 50:26 Joseph was placed in a coffin in Egypt

Exodus

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2000 BC 1450 1000 BCAbraham Moses David

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus Deuteronomy

Numbers

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Flow of thought in Exodus

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19-24

25-40

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1A God Buys / Wins a People to Himself 1B God Introduces Himself and Separates a People from Egypt, 1-11 1C The need for deliverance: 1:1-22

Why would the nation want to stay in Egypt?

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1A God Buys / Wins a People to Himself 1B God Introduces Himself and Separates a People from Egypt, 1-11 1C The need for deliverance: 1:1-22

Why would the nation want to stay in Egypt? What things does God allow which make them

want to leave?• Slavery• Death of baby boys

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2C The introduction of God to the deliverer, Moses, 2:1--4:31 English, “I AM” =

Hebrew, “Jehovah” orbetter “Yahweh”

Elohim = god

El-Shaddai = God almighty

Adonai = Lord, Master

Yahweh = Personal name

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“I AM” 1) Self-existent One, 3:14 as opposed to “I began” or “I came to be”

I AM I AM I AMWho was Who is Who is to come

3:14 So God said to Moses, “I AM that I AM.” And he said, “You must say this to the Israelites, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

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“I AM” 1) Self-existent One, 3:14 as opposed to “I began” or “I came to be”

2) I AM the God who keeps his promises to Abraham, Isaac & Jacob, 3:15 For short: God is the 1) Powerful, 3:14 2) Promisekeeper, 3:153:14 So God said to Moses, “I AM that I AM.” And he said, “You must say this to the Israelites, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

3:15 God also said to Moses, “You must say this to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is my memorial from generation to generation.

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3C God Separates a people from Egypt, 5-10 1D The background 5:2 6:2-8 7:5

5:2 But Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD that I should obey him by releasing Israel? I do not know the LORD, and I will not release Israel.”

I do not like green eggs and ham, Sam I am!

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6:2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the LORD, 6:3 and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name “the LORD” I was not known to them.

6:4 And I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, in which they were living as resident aliens. 6:5 I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant. 6:6 Therefore, say to the Israelites, ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rescue you from their hard labor, and I will redeem you by my outstretched arm and with great judgments.

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6:7 And I will take you to myself for a people, and I will become your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 6:8 And I will bring you to the land I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob—and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD!’”

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3C God Separates a people from Egypt, 5-10 1D The background 5:2 6:2-8 7:5 2D God reveals Himself to Israel & Pharaoh

7:5 Then the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I extend my hand over Egypt and bring out the Israelites from among them.

:Nobody knows Yahweh!!

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1 Blood 4 Flies 7 Hail AM Warning

2 Frogs 5 Cattle 8 Locusts Warning

3 Gnats 6 Boils 9 Darkness No Warning

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2D God reveals Himself to Israel & Pharaoh

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1 Blood 4 Flies 7 Hail AM Warning

2 Frogs 5 Cattle 8 Locusts Warning

3 Gnats 6 Boils 9 Darkness No Warning

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2D God reveals Himself to Israel & Pharaoh

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1 Blood 4 Flies 7 Hail AM Warning

2 Frogs 5 Cattle 8 Locusts Warning

3 Gnats 6 Boils 9 Darkness No Warning

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2D God reveals Himself to Israel & Pharoah

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1 Blood 4 Flies 7 Hail AM Warning

2 Frogs 5 Cattle 8 Locusts Warning

3 Gnats 6 Boils 9 Darkness No Warning

10 Death of Firstborn

2D God reveals Himself to Israel & Pharoah

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2B God Redeems a People to Himself 1C God rescues a people from Judgment on the firstborn by blood, 12:1-15