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• RamesesBible

  Rameses was the name of a region and a city in the eastern Nile Delta of ancient Egypt. The children of Israel built it as a store city while in bondage, and it was the starting point of their march at the Exodus.

• OgPeople

  Og was the king who ruled the region of Bashan, east of the Jordan River, toward the end of the Exodus era. According to Numbers and Deuteronomy, he fought Israel, led by Moses, at Edrei and was defeated.

• SuccothBible

  Succoth is a Hebrew place name meaning "booths." In the Old Testament it refers both to a town east of the Jordan River and to the place in Egypt that Israel first reached after setting out from Rameses at the Exodus.

• HazerothBible

  Hazeroth was an encampment where the Israelites stopped after Kibroth-hattaavah during their wilderness journey following the Exodus. There Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses, and Miriam was stricken with leprosy.

• Aaron's RodBible

  Aaron's rod was the staff carried by Aaron, the elder brother of Moses, and was used to perform signs before Pharaoh during the Exodus. In the wilderness it budded and bore fruit overnight, becoming a sign that confirmed the priesthood of Aaron's house.

• MoseraBible

  Mosera is a place where Israel stopped during its journey through the wilderness after the Exodus. Deuteronomy 10:6 names it as the place where Aaron died and was buried. It is generally identified with Moseroth in Numbers 33.

• HeshbonBible

  Heshbon was a city on the plateau east of the Jordan River that served as the royal city of Sihon, king of the Amorites, at the time of the Exodus. After Israel captured it, the city was allotted to the tribe of Reuben, and in the later prophetic books it appears as a Moabite city.

• Psalm 78Bible

  Psalm 78 is a didactic psalm (maschil) of Asaph that retraces Israel's history from the Exodus to the accession of David. It contrasts God's faithfulness with the people's repeated disobedience and urges that these things be passed on to the next generation.

• Isaiah 63Bible

  Isaiah 63 portrays one clothed in red garments who comes from Edom and alone executes judgment on the enemies. It then presents the people's prayer of lament, which recalls God's grace in the Exodus and confesses, "Thou, O LORD, art our father."

• Dathan and AbiramPeople

  Dathan and Abiram were brothers of the tribe of Reuben, sons of Eliab, who joined Korah in rebelling against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness after the Exodus. They are known for the incident in which the earth opened and swallowed them and their households.

• Unleavened BreadBible

  Unleavened bread (Hebrew matzah) is flat bread baked without leaven. In the Bible it was eaten at Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread in commemoration of the Exodus, and it was also used as a sacrificial offering.

• MigdolBible

  Migdol is an Egyptian place-name derived from the Hebrew word for "tower" or "fortress." It appears as a site near Israel's encampment before the crossing of the Red Sea during the Exodus, and in Jeremiah and Ezekiel it is used as a place-name marking the northern extremity of Egypt.

• ParanBible

  Paran is a wilderness region generally thought to have lain in the northeastern Sinai Peninsula. Ishmael grew up there, and after the Exodus Israel encamped there and sent out the twelve spies from it.

• Eldad and MedadPeople

  Eldad and Medad were two men chosen among the seventy elders appointed to assist Moses during the wilderness period after the Exodus. Instead of going out to the tabernacle, they remained in the camp, where they prophesied (Numbers 11:26-29).

• 1 Kings 6Bible

  1 Kings 6 records how Solomon began building the house of the LORD (the Temple) in the 480th year after the Exodus, the fourth year of his reign, and completed it in seven years. The chapter describes the Temple's dimensions, structure, and decoration in turn.

• Psalm 66Bible

  Psalm 66 is a psalm of praise and thanksgiving that calls all the earth to praise God, recalls the deliverance of the Exodus and the refining that comes through suffering, and bears witness to the God who heard the psalmist's prayer as he pays his vows.

• Psalm 81Bible

  Psalm 81 is a psalm of Asaph in sixteen verses. It opens with a call to praise God at the festivals, recalls the Exodus, and then, in God's own voice, rebukes Israel's disobedience and urges obedience.

• Psalm 105Bible

  Psalm 105 is a psalm of 45 verses that recounts the history of Israel, from the covenant with Abraham through Joseph, the Exodus, the wilderness, and the settlement in Canaan, and praises God for keeping His covenant.

• Psalm 135Bible

  Psalm 135 is a hymn of praise that summons those who serve God to praise him. It celebrates the LORD's power as revealed in creation, the Exodus, and the conquest of Canaan, and contrasts him with idols that can neither speak nor see.

• Joshua 24:15Bible Verses

  Joshua 24:15 records the declaration Joshua made near the end of his life, when he called on Israel to choose that day whom they would serve and announced, "As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." It is among the verses most widely used as a motto for household faith, and it is also cited in discussions of human choice and divine sovereignty.