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• Exodus 1Bible

  In Exodus 1, a new king who did not know Joseph oppresses the children of Israel, who have multiplied greatly in Egypt, subjecting them to forced labor and ordering that Hebrew baby boys be killed. The midwives fear God and refuse to carry out the order.

• Exodus 19Bible

  In the third month after the Exodus, Israel arrives in the Wilderness of Sinai and camps before Mount Sinai. God proposes a covenant, and the people accept it. After the people consecrate themselves for two days, God descends upon the mountain on the third day.

• Exodus 14Bible

  Exodus 14 is the chapter in which the children of Israel, encamped by the sea, are pursued by Pharaoh's army. When Moses stretches out his hand, the sea divides, Israel crosses on dry ground, and the pursuing Egyptian army is covered by the waters.

• Exodus 13Bible

  Exodus 13 sets out the ordinance for consecrating the firstborn to God and the ordinance of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. It then describes Israel setting out into the wilderness, carrying the bones of Joseph and led by the pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire.

• Exodus 40Bible

  Exodus 40 is the final chapter of the Book of Exodus. In obedience to God's command, Moses sets up the tabernacle on the first day of the first month of the second year after the Exodus. The book closes as the cloud covers the tent of meeting and the glory of the LORD fills the tabernacle.

• Forty Years in the WildernessBible

  The forty years in the wilderness were the period the Israelites spent in the wilderness after the Exodus and before entering Canaan. The Bible portrays this period both as judgment for unbelief and as a time in which God fed and taught his people.

• EthamBible

  Etham was the second place where the Israelites encamped during the Exodus, after they left Succoth. Scripture records that it lay "in the edge of the wilderness." It is the place where the pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire are first mentioned.

• The Twelve SpiesBible

  The Twelve Spies were the men, one chosen from each tribe, whom Moses sent to explore Canaan, the Promised Land, before Israel entered it after the Exodus. The term also refers to the episode itself, which is recorded in Numbers 13–14.

• Water from the RockBible

  The water from the rock refers to the events in which God, through Moses, brought water out of a rock when the Israelites in the wilderness complained because they had no water to drink. The events are recorded in Exodus 17 and Numbers 20.

• Redemption of the FirstbornBible

  The redemption of the firstborn is a provision of the Mosaic Law by which the firstborn son in Israel was set apart as belonging to God and then redeemed by a payment of five shekels of silver. The institution served as a reminder that God spared Israel's firstborn sons at the time of the Exodus.

• Manna and QuailBible

  Manna and quail were the food that, according to Exodus 16 and Numbers 11, God provided for the people of Israel in the wilderness after the Exodus. Manna is recorded as having fallen continually throughout Israel's forty years in the wilderness.

• ElimBible

  Elim was an oasis where the Israelites encamped after leaving Marah during the Exodus. Scripture records that it had twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees, and it served as a stopping point on the wilderness journey.

• HurPeople

  Hur was an Israelite leader who served alongside Moses and Aaron during the Exodus. He is best known for holding up Moses' hands with Aaron during the battle against Amalek.

• Jehovah-nissiBible

  Jehovah-nissi is the name Moses gave to the altar he built after Israel's victory over Amalek in Exodus 17. It means "The LORD is my banner."

• RephidimBible

  Rephidim was a wilderness encampment where the Israelites stopped after the Exodus, just before reaching the wilderness of Sinai. It was the site of the water from the rock and of the battle with Amalek.

• Ramesses IIPeople

  Ramesses II was a pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt who reigned for more than sixty years in the thirteenth century BC. Because he shares his name with Raamses, the store city mentioned in Exodus, he is frequently discussed in debates over the identity of the pharaoh of the Exodus.

• SihonPeople

  Sihon was an Amorite king who ruled the territory east of the Jordan River from his capital at Heshbon near the end of the wilderness period following the Exodus. He refused to let Israel pass through his land, fought against them, and was defeated (Numbers 21).

• CalebPeople

  Caleb is a man of the tribe of Judah who appears in the Old Testament books of Numbers and Joshua. One of the twelve spies, he joined Joshua in urging Israel to take Canaan, and the two of them were the only members of the Exodus generation to enter the Promised Land.

• Exodus 40:34-35Bible Verses

  The closing scene of the Book of Exodus, in which, once the tabernacle is completed, the cloud covers the tent of meeting and the glory of the LORD fills the tabernacle so that even Moses cannot enter. As a key text on God's presence dwelling among his people, it is frequently cited at dedication services and in sermons on worship.