Book Of Exodus Essay

The book of Exodus starts four years after Joseph and his family had died, and a new Pharaoh ruled the land of Egypt. The Pharaoh did not know Joseph and his family when he became the new king, “Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.” (Exodus 1:8) When he saw that the Children of Israel were stronger and were multiplying quickly, he told his people, “Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.”(Exodus 1:10) Pharaoh told the midwife to the Hebrew women to kill any son but if a daughter then let it live. The midwives feared God and did not do what the Pharaoh

After she had the baby for three months she realized she could not hide him anymore, so she put him in an ark of bulrushes and laid it in the river. Later the Pharaohs daughter and her maidens went to the river to wash herself, when she saw the ark she told one of her maidens to get it for her. When she opened it she found a child and it began to cry, and she said, “…This is one of the Hebrews' children.” (Exodus 2:6b) The woman told her maiden to find the mother, Pharaohs daughter finds the mother and said, “And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the women took the child, and nursed it.” (Exodus

An angel came in Exodus 3:2 as a, “flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.” Moses said, “I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.” God said to Moses that it was Him and to take off his shoes because he was standing on holy ground. Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God. God told Moses that He knew the sorrows of the children of Israel that were in slavery in Egypt, and He said in Exodus 3:8, “And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.“ Moses said “who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? God told Moses again to take His people out of Egypt, but Moses kept arguing with God. This time God was angry with Moses and said, “I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.” (Exodus 3:14) God was giving Moses instructions in Exodus 3:13-22 and what He will do for them, He told him what to do when they are set