Yahweh and the Pharaoh

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. As a result of being slaves and beginning to populate Egypt the Egyptians decided to kill all the firstborn Israelite male babies. The only one to escape this massacre was Moses who’s mother put him in a basket and put him in the water. He was then found by Pharaoh’s daughter and she saved him and treated him as if he was her own son. As a result of the event of having been enslaved and having their male children killed the Israelites cried out to God and he heard them.

God wanted Moses to lead his people out of Egypt. He eventually took up the mantle and made his return to Egypt. This began the third 40 year period. Upon return to Egypt, he patterned up with his brother, Aaron in taking up the task to lead the Israelites. God worked through Moses to inflict 10 plagues on the Egyptians as Pharaoh initially refused to let the Israelites go, the last of them finally persuaded Pharaoh to let the Israelites go.

About 500 years after the death of Abraham, his descendants through Isaac were living in Egypt as slaves. Genesis 37 to 50 tells the story of how this came about. The 10 oldest sons of Abraham's grandson Jacob disliked their younger brother Joseph so much that they found a way to sell him to traders who in turn sold him to an Egyptian officer as a slave. In his new land, Joseph went through a series of ups and downs and eventually became the prime minister of Egypt, the highest official under the king. God enabled Joseph to foresee an approaching time of famine, and used him to store up food and then distribute it during the famine. His political position made it possible for him to settle his father's family in Egypt's most fertile territory. Here they prospered for many years. However, the time came when the leaders of Egypt began to view the rapidly growing Israelite community as a threat. As a result, they made slaves of the Israelites, treating them with ever-increasing harshness. Finally, desperate because the descendants of Jacob continued to multiply, they issued an order that all their male babies be destroyed at birth. The first 12 chapters of Exodus tell the story of how the Lord responded to the cries of His people. He miraculously provided Moses to be their leader, sent 10 plagues on the Egyptians, helped the Israelites celebrate their first Passover, and led them out of the land of bondage. It appears that as they left for Canaan, they had no

     The land of Egypt was visited by a succession of nine plagues. First, the rivers turned to blood. Then came the plagues of frogs, lice, murrain, flies, boils, locusts, and darkness. Still the pharaoh would refuse to let the Israelites go, until at last, Jehovah brought one more plague on the pharaoh and on Egypt.

The Ancient Egyptian were polytheistic most of the time, which means that they believed in multiple gods. When Akhenaten was pharaoh, the Egyptians were monotheistic, meaning they worshiped only one god. He ended the worship of other gods and claimed that Aten, the lord of all was the only god in Egypt. The Egyptians didn't like this idea, so on their own,

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

Based on what I read in “Should I stay or should I go” I can infer that Pharaoh would not give mercy on the Hebrew slaves and wouldn’t care hurting or killing them. “Should I stay or should I go” tells me that a Pharaoh made the Israelites serve him in rigour. In addition, He made them endure through abusive treatment. In other words, Pharaoh didn’t give mercy toward Hebrew slaves so they were aggrieved, went through rigidity and their children were murdered. This shows that choosing to leave Egypt and follow Moses would be the best option because I would not want to go through aggressive

In Exodus, there was never any signs of doubt and God’s plan for justice was always consistent. Because of this, Moses’ purpose did not waver during the negotiations with Pharaoh, preventing him from understanding Pharaoh’s perspective. Moses followed the orders of God and obeyed his every command, never doubting him for a second (Exodus 3:12). He believed that if anyone was going to pull him and his people out of exile, it would be God. The idea of following God and His love was so simple to Moses, that he completely ignored occurrences that any person today would have fled from.

The interaction between Yahweh and Moses occurs many times throughout the book of Exodus, as do other interactions between this God of the Hebrews and

This specific event took place after the occurrence of the 10 plagues. The plagues were a great demonstration of the power aimed to persuade Pharaoh to let the Jews go.

Moses brought plague upon the Egyptians in hoping to lead to the release of the Israelites. For the first plague Moses replaced the water of the Nile River with blood (Exod 7:14-24). For the second plague Moses sent an infantry of frogs upon the Egyptians (Exod 7:25-8:15). These two plague’s were both replicated

God wanted to Hebrews to be let free from Egypt. To accomplish this God sent ten plagues to Egypt. At this time Moses was the leader of the Hebrews. Moses led his people out of Egypt and into the desert. They wondered the desert for 40 years until they found the land that God had promised them. Joshua led the Hebrews to take over the land from the people who lived there before the Hebrews were

Moses was a leader of the Hebrews and probably the most important figure in Judaism. He led the Hebrew people out of Egypt and into the Promise Land. His story is told in the book of Exodus, and begins when he was first born during the time that the pharaoh of Egypt declared that all male Hebrew babies were to be drowned at birth. Moses’ mother Yocheved, hid Moses and placed him in a basket in the reeds of the Nile River, where he was then found by the pharaoh’s daughter, who kept Moses and raised him as her own. In the story of Moses, he grows up and stumbles upon an Egyptian beating a Hebrew slave. Out of anger Moses murders the Egyptian, and flees to Midian to escape his crime (Hays, 2000). In Midian, Moses rests besides a well,

In the story of BNY’s exodus from Egypt God uses a series of extraordinary yet drastic plagues before God finally takes BNY out from Egypt. Throughout the plagues there seems to be many modifications and additons to the original requests Moshe made to Pharaoh, “יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי הָעִבְרִים שְׁלָחַנִי אֵלֶיךָ לֵאמֹר, שַׁלַּח אֶת-עַמִּי, וְיַעַבְדֻנִי בַּמִּדְבָּ”. By the end of the plagues Moshe tells Pharaoh, “אַתָּה תִּתֵּן בְּיָדֵנוּ זְבָחִים וְעֹלֹת; וְעָשִׂינוּ לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ”. At that point in the story Pharaoh had already conceded to letting all of BNY go and yet Moshe now adding a new condition; not is this only a new condition but it is so clearly a irrational request. Due to the ridiculous

In Egypt, Pharaoh was so wicked that he oppressed the Israelites. What’s more, he did not always keep his work after the Lord stopped punishing him. There is no doubt that Pharaoh is not an honest and kind person. In addition, he is cruel to treat the Israelites. From the story, what we can learn is that it is of vital significance to keep our word and treat other people friendly and kindly. If not, there is no denying that we will be punished sooner or later. Besides, it is a good habit to keep our word. There are some reasons why we ought to do that as follows. To begin with, keeping our word can make other people know that we are honest and worth believing in. what’s more, keeping our word is a good way to improve our image which is helpful