The Book Of Exodus 🧳

• Names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob

  • Reuben
  • Simeon
  • Levi
  • Judah
  • Issachar
  • Zebulun
  • Benjamin
  • Dan
  • Naphtali
  • Gad
  • Asher
• All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons
• Joseph was already in Egypt
• Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation
• The people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them
• A new king over Egypt arose, who did not know Joseph
• The king said the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us
• The king wanted to deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land
• The Egyptians dealt with the Israelites


  1. Set taskmasters over them

  2. Afflicted them with heavy burdens

  3. Built store cities Pithom and Raamses for Pharaoh
• The more the Israelites were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad
• The Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel
• The Egyptians dealt with the Israelites

  1. Ruthlessly made them work as slaves

  2. Made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field
• The king of Egypt commanded the Hebrew midwives to kill all newborn sons, but let the daughters live
• The midwives feared God and did not do as the king commanded, but let the male children live
• The king questioned the midwives, who said the Hebrew women give birth before the midwife comes
• God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very strong
• Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families
• Pharaoh commanded all his people to cast every newborn son of the Hebrews into the Nile, but let the daughters live
• "God hardened Pharaoh's heart" - Exodus 10:20
• "Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh" - Exodus 7:7
• "The Lord said to Moses, 'I am the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God'" - Exodus 6:7
• Moses was born during this time when the Israelites were enslaved by Egyptians
• Jochebed hid Moses from Pharaoh's decree to kill all baby boys
• She placed him in an ark made of bulrushes and put it among the reeds on the bank of the river
• "I am the Lord" - Exodus 6:7
• "Let my people go that they may serve me" - Exodus 8:1
• "This is what the Lord says: About midnight I will go throughout Egypt" - Exodus 11:4
• Levite


  Member of the Hebrew tribe of Levi
• Hiding the child


  1. Hid him three months

  2. Took a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch

  3. Put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank
• Moses


  • Became Pharaoh's daughter's son
  • Named because she drew him out of the water
• Moses growing up


  1. Went out to his people and looked on their burdens

  2. Saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew

  3. Struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand
• When Moses went out the next day

  Two Hebrews were struggling together
• When Pharaoh heard of Moses killing the Egyptian

  He sought to kill Moses
• Moses fleeing Pharaoh


  1. Fled to the land of Midian

  2. Sat down by a well
• Gershom


  Name given by Moses to his son, meaning "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land"
• During those many days the king of Egypt died


  The people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help
• Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.
• "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain" - Exodus 20:7
• "And he took his wife Zipporah, and his two sons, of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land:" - Exodus 4:20
• Moses


  Keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian