The document provides an overview of key events and themes in Exodus 1-4 and Exodus 5, 7, 11-12, 14-15, 16-17, and 19. It summarizes the origins of Moses and the Israelites' enslavement in Egypt. It describes God calling Moses at the burning bush and commissioning him to demand Pharaoh free the Israelites. Despite plagues sent by God, Pharaoh refuses and the Israelites institute the Passover and flee Egypt. The document then notes the Israelites' complaints in the desert and God establishing a covenant with them at Mount Sinai.

1. Unit 3 - Exodus

2.  Exodus 1
◦ 1:7- Israel grows
◦ 1:8-14
 Pharaoh does not know Joseph
 Egyptian xenophobia  Taskmasters and forced
labor
 Murder of male children; midwives’ response
Exodus 1

3.  Exodus 2
◦ 2:1-10- Moses’ origins; ancient world parallels
◦ 2:11-22
 Egyptian abusing Hebrew; Moses’ response &
foreshadowing
 Moses flees
◦ 2:23-25- Israel’s groans & God’s attention
Exodus 2

4.  Exodus 3
◦ Setting
◦ God identifies God’s self
 3:6- Ancestral associations
 3:7-9- Why God acts and what God plans to do
 3:11-14- Divine name
 3:19- Foretelling of the Moses-Pharaoh
confrontation
Exodus 3

5.  Exodus 4
◦ Moses’ doubts
◦ God’s proofs
◦ Moses and eloquences  appointment of Aaron
◦ 4:27-31- Aaron and the elders’ responses
Exodus 4

6. ◦ Exodus 5
 “Let me people go”
◦ Why?
◦ Honest?
 Pharaoh’s response?
◦ “Who is YHWH…”
◦ Exodus 7
 What do Moses and Aaron do?
 How does Pharaoh respond?
◦ Egyptian pantheon and magic
Exodus 5 & 7

7. ◦ Exodus 11:1-12:32
 What is the tenth plague?
 The Passover ritual (12:1-20)
 Pharaoh’s response?
◦ Exodus 14:1-29
 Pharaoh’s NEW response?
◦ Exodus 15:22-25
 What’s the problem?
 Moses’ response?
◦ Exodus 16:2-3
 More of the same
◦ Exodus 17:1-3
 Even MORE of the same.
Passover, Exodus, and Complaints

8.  Exodus 19:1-9
◦ Where is Israel?
◦ New covenant (19:5-6)
 What is Israel called to do?
 What will God do?
◦ Israel’s response (19:8)
 “Everything YHWH has said, we will do.”
◦ How does God appear to Moses?
Intro to Sinai and Covenant

9.  A covenant
◦ pact, compact, treaty, alliance, league,
constitution, ordinance, agreement, pledge
 The Covenant
◦ Hebrew berit
◦ particular covenants?
◦ Terms of covenants?
 The Hebrew Bible AS the record of the
Covenant.
Covenant

10. I, the Lord, am your You shall not commit
God; you shall not adultery.
have other gods
Activity: besides me.
You shall not take You shall not steal.
the name of the Lord,
Categorize the your God, in vain.
Ten Remember to keep You shall not bear
holy the Sabbath. false witness against
Commandments your neighbor.
in whatever way
Honor your father You shall not covet
you think captures and your mother. your neighbor’s
house.
certain trends in
the list. You shall not kill. You shall not covet
your neighbor’s wife
or anything that
belongs to your
neighbor.
The Ten Commandments