The Israelites in Egypt had a new king arose there that wanted them not to grow in numbers so he sent people to burden them. But that would only make the multiple more. The Egyptians then decided to make them into their slaves. He then also told the midwives, helpers in birth-giving, to kill all the boys that are born to the Hebrew women, but they did not because they feared God. This made the king then say that all the boys had to be thrown into the Nile river. Moses was a boy born to Hebrew women. His mother when his fate so she put him in a basket and sent him down the river. The Pharaoh’s sister there say him and decided to take him in.
God told Moses not to move and to take off his sandals because he was in the holy land. God responded by telling him that he was going to help the Hebrew people out of Egypt.
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The characteristics depict God to win and success. An example of this when they say He has “triumphed gloriously” and also He is said to be “glorious in power”. They also see him be powerful in a sense to be able to “shatter the enemy” and that He is “a man of war”.
At the beginning of their journey, God heard their cries and gave them bread to get. Later on, the people cried that they were thirsty and the Lord gave them water from a rock. Then a war came with Amalek in which Moses called upon the Lord to help win. Next, Moses father-in-law came to visit and insisted that Moses make leaders and such so that he would not have to take care of all the people’s burdens himself.
This chapter is the foundational chapter of Judaism and Jewish conception of their relationship with God because it talks about the limits and controls God sets for the people. In this chapter, God told the people that he would come to them on top of the mountain but they could not come up the mountain. God was stating a limit for the people to follow. This ties in with relationship for how interacts with His