1. MOSES:
Keeper of
the Covenant

2. • After many generations, the Egyptian Pharaoh
began to fear that the Hebrew people (the
Israelites) would take over Egypt
• Pharaoh forced the Hebrews into slavery, and
ordered that first-born Hebrew baby boys should
be drowned
• A Hebrew woman placed her baby in a basket
and left him among the reeds of the Nile River

3. • Pharaoh’s daughter noticed the basket and felt
compassion for the baby. She hired the baby’s
own mother to care for hm.

4. • Pharaoh’s daughter adopted the baby and named
him Moses, which means “drawn from the water”
• Moses was raised and educated in the Egyptian
palace, but he knew that he was Hebrew
• He was angered by the way his people were
treated, going so far as to kill an Egyptian who
had hit a Hebrew slave

5. • Moses fled to Midian and worked as a shepherd
• One day while Moses was tending his flock on
Mount Sinai, God came to him in the form of a
burning bush

6. • God called Moses by name and told him that he
would rescue his people and lead them to a land
“flowing with milk and honey.”
• God told Moses to go to Pharaoh to convince him
to release the Hebrews
• When Moses asked God, “Whom shall I say sent
me?” God replied, “I am who am. I am the Lord,
the God of your fathers Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob.”
• In Hebrew, the name of God translates to YAHWEH

7. • God sent Moses’ brother Aaron to assist Moses
• Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, telling him
God’s message was to “Let my people go.”
• Pharaoh refused, in spite of the sign of God’s
power, when Aaron’s staff turned into a snake

9. • Moses warned Pharaoh – “If you refuse us, I will
turn the water of the river to blood; all the fish
will die and the water will be unfit to drink.”
• Pharaoh ignored Moses; Moses struck the Nile
with his staff and the river turned red

10. • Next came a plague of frogs swarming the land.
Still, Pharaoh refused to release the Israelites
• More plagues followed: gnats, flies, disease of
people and animals, hailstones, locusts and days
of darkness
• Each plague was a sign that God was speaking
through Moses, but Pharaoh would not change
his mind

12. • God told Moses to warn Pharaoh about a final
plague. Every firstborn son in the land would die.
• Pharaoh did not believe this would happen
• The Israelites were told to sprinkle lamb’s blood
on their doorposts. Their houses would be
“passed over” and their sons would be spared
• This event is celebrated as Passover. This is what
Jesus was celebrating at the Last Supper.

14. • When all the Egyptian firstborn sons died,
including Pharaoh’s, he agreed to let the Israelites
go
• This escape out of Egypt is known as the Exodus

15. • Days after releasing the Israelites, Pharaoh changed
his mind and sent soldiers to bring them back
• They had come to the Red Sea; God directed Moses
to raise his staff. The water parted and a dry path
was made in the sea. The Israelites crossed safely.

16. • When the Egyptians tried to follow, the sea came
together and they were drowned.
• The Israelites had left Egypt to search for their
Promised Land