Exodus 21-24 was definitely quite an instructive piece of literature. It was almost raw in its nature as a text or “book” but more of reading an excerpt from a piece of non-fiction most similar to an instruction manual of some sort that you get when you buy a dissembled bike or desk. Something like being enrolled in a police academy there was definite sense of a master-slave relationship in the air. It is like something never before seen in the Torah, these chapters showed a whole new YHWH. The YHWH who is feared like the school principal in an elementary school, not even mom and dad has come on so strong as to the dos and donts of living life. It seems as if YHWH was pushed to such a point where YHWH has no choice but intervene into the …show more content…
This is a special moment between YHWH and Moses where they agree with each other that this is what is going to be done. YHWH’s trust in his Children seems to have been implicitly betrayed as YHWH imposes these rules.
Another important aspect in these chapters is the strong emphasis placed on worshipping only one God. YHWH repeatedly tells Moshe in different ways that all other gods shall be abandoned whatever the situation may be. There are no excuses for worshipping other gods and that doing so will result with the most severe punishments. If you combine this with all of the other “instructions” that YHWH has mentioned, you have a situation where you will be automatically put to death if you do a vast amount of crimes and you can combine that with the crime of worshipping any other god. So you not only express your consent to obeying these instructions by worshipping YHWH, but by doing so you also accept to live an infallible lifestyle by doing so. This is quite limiting I can imagine for a people who have had no sense of YHWH’s governmental prowess and all of a sudden doing what is expected to be done by this complex agreement. It now seems that though the Children are free from Egypt, “Egypt” has taken another form, in the form of YHWH.
I am not sure how YHWH feels about his chosen people if he has come to do so much for them only to place on them rules and
In the Old Testament, the Israelites were seen as people who failed to listen to God’s commandments. Despite knowing beforehand that they would be punished for their disobedience, they still continued to commit sin. God tried to deter their misbehavior by promising them many blessings, but it worked to no avail. Due to the insubordination of the Israelites, He made sure that the promises He made to them would be withheld and that they would face consequences.
Exodus is the second book of the Bible. Exodus follows after Jacob and his family arrived in Egypt and after Joseph died. After Joseph died the new Egyptian pharaoh began to realize that the Israelite population was on the rise and oppressed them by making them slaves. The story of Exodus follows the oppression of the Israelites, Rise of Moses, The Exodus, and Mount Sinai.
In the Bible and in Greek stories, the price of disobeying a god is either severe punishment or death. In the second source of chapter three, God orders the Pharaoh several times to let the Israelites go free from Egypt. And each time, the Pharaoh does not listen causing increasingly harsh punishments to fall on Egypt. The punishment that makes Pharaoh finally change his mind, is the one that “strikes down every first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast” (34). The Pharaoh, finally realizing that he should obey God before any more people (or animals) die, lets the Israelite people go. In the book of the Bible called Jeremiah, God’s wrath is again placed upon those who do not obey. The people of Jerusalem are worshipping other deities,
I am going to be talking about Moses and the law it was written in the book of exodus. Moses was born a Hebrew in Egypt. Hebrews we're an Israelite slave in Egypt at the time when Moses was born Hebrews started to expand so large that the Egyptians started getting terrified and saying what if the Hebrews outgrow us? If they outgrow us that means the Hebrew will out number the Egyptians so therefore if the Hebrews wanted to take over they will be able to because they outnumber the Egyptians. Pharaoh came up with this idea If he killed all Hebrew baby boys at birth he wouldn’t have to worry about that problem so Pharaoh ordered that all Hebrew baby boys are to be put to death at birth.
3. The Lord threatens the Egyptian people that he will smite or whip there fist-born child until they are dead unless they free the Israelites. The Israelites represent the hebrew slaves.
I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.” Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” God also said to Moses, “Say 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, the name you shall call me from generation to generation. “Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to
“Quick, go down, for your people that I brought up from Egypt has acted ruinously… My wrath may flare against them, and I will put an end to them and I will make you a great nation.” (Exodus 32:6) God is quick to say that he will destroy all of them, and build his chosen people back up anew, like he has done before. It’s interesting that God uses the phrase ‘your people’, seemingly distancing himself from his own creation, before he destroys it. Moses is quick to come to the aid of the Israelites and explain why they should be spared. Moses explains that to smite down his people, so soon after liberating them from Egypt would just confirm the thoughts of the Egyptians; that the Israelites are not in fact chosen by God, and that their god is a false one. This liberation of his people is what signified to humanity all over that their god is the most powerful. God used an enslaved people to take on the Egyptians, who were an incredibly powerful people; showing how awe inspiring their god is. Moses then goes on to bring up the promise made to Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, “You swore by Yourself… ‘I will multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I said, I will give to your seed, and they will hold it in estate forever.’” (Exodus 32:13). To destroy their progeny would be to renege on the promise made to them. Moses seems to cater to some
This lead the reader question why God did not provide defined rules, or expectations, prior to the commandments? Previous covenants focused on God’s obligations: to not destroy mankind again and to provide Abraham offspring and the land of Canaan, whereas Exodus focused on Israelite responsibilities (p. 114). In the end, the reader found Exodus a “rite of passage” that displayed God’s trust in the Israelites and a formalized relationship with God.
In time, the people of Israel became disobedient; because of their disobedience, God allowed the Israelites to become entrapped in Egyptian bondage. After God, hearing their cries and freeing them from this bondage, the Israelites wandered in the desert moaning, groaning, and complaining. Their obedience became non-existent, which brought about the Mosaic Law given to
The Hebrew people were chosen as the people of God. After being enslaved in Egypt for centuries, God leads them out of oppression to the Promised land. He works through two Judges, Moses, and Joshua.
He says that the Egyptians would mock the Israelites, laughing that their God would lead them out of their servitude only to face destruction at his own hands. Rather than respecting his power, they would see that he was either unable or unwilling to complete the salvation he set his people upon. And so the Lord agres to set aside his anger at the people, while Moses returns to them with God’s commandments.
God narrative flow hears the Israelites moaning and groaning, so He emergence Moses an Egyptian to be the leader of faith in Egypt. God narrative plan continues perfectly for Him that His promise for every generation is fulfilled in the earth and among covenant with Abraham, Jacobs, and Isaac families. Fretheim study highlights the main events of God structure plan for Israelites journey through Exodus concerning Moses as their leader. God engage His divine plan for the covenant law, “the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai” (106). Exodus flows with several phenomena events taken place “the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread, the Red Sea crossing, and giving of the law at Mt. Sinai” for the people of Israel to recognized God constitutive foundation establishment for ongoing communities of faith (101-102). God capture Moses attend through a burning bush. Moses, Moses, God calls take off your sandals you are standing Holy ground and Moses reluctantly said this is I God informs Moses to go and demand Pharaoh to let the Israelites go free. Fretheim reflects that “God actions are because of Pharaoh disobedience to the will of His creation of a
In reading Exodus, I noticed two ways that God divided things. The first way God divides is by dividing the people of Israel from the rest of the world, specifically in this week’s reading from Egypt. The second divide is how he divided the Hebrew nation, before and after Exodus. God always had a special relationship with the Israelites, but he now has started telling them things they need to do such as Passover, Consecration of the First Born, and the Sabbath.
Understanding the dynamic concept of covenant permeates everything God says in His Word and everything He does in a believer’s life. The following word study will examine the text of Exodus 19:1-8. The text begins with an obscure and severely brutalized people who are saved from slavery and are on the verge of a new covenant between God and man. The word in study is the Hebrew word האמנה, translated “covenant.”
The law was given to the Israelites for a second time, this was not only to remind them but to stress the importance of obeying God. Chapter 6 begins by explaining why the Lord is giving these commands to Israel in which they are to fear the Lord by keeping these commands. If they fear the Lord their God then they will enjoy a long life and increase greatly in the land of milk and honey which is the promise land. God’s heart is revealed through this by the series of sermons that urge complete loyalty to YHWH. The nation of Israel excepts these commands by saying, “YHWH is our God, YHWH alone.”