Day 5

God had Moses end the book of Genesis with Joseph’s death at 110. God had Moses open Exodus 1 with a reminder of all of the sons of Israel (Jacob). Remember that Joseph had been sold into slavery by his jealous brothers when Joseph was just 17 years old. At age 30, Joseph had been made second only to Pharaoh in Egypt, as Joseph oversaw the ga...

In Exodus 1:8–14, we find that after Joseph and his brothers died, a new king came into power in Egypt and this king did not know Joseph. This new king was concerned about making sure the Israelites did not join another nation and wage war against Egypt. So, the new king put in place taskmasters over the Israelites and forced them into hard l...

The nation of Israel continued to multiply numerically, and the king of Egypt feared their numbers and potential power against him and his people. The king of Egypt came up with a plan to stop the nation of Israel from continuing to grow numerically. We read in Exodus 1:15–16, “Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom ...

We ended Exodus 1 in yesterday’s devotion, but we did not get to touch on Exodus 1:22. We read this, “Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, ‘Every son who is born you are to cast into the Nile, and every daughter you are to keep alive.’” We can see from this passage the hardness of Pharaoh's heart and that he wanted the Hebrew baby b...

Today, we examine Exodus 2:1–10 as God had Moses write about his parents and how they protected him from being murdered by the Egyptians. When God led Moses’s mother to put Moses in the wicker basket, she trusted that God would take care of her child, but she had no idea how God would work. God calls us to trust Him, even when the situation s...

Moses grew up in Egypt and was raised by “Pharaoh’s daughter who took him away and nurtured him as her own son” (Acts 7:21). We also read in Acts 7:22–23, “Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and he was a man of power in words and deeds. 23 But when he was approaching the age of forty, it entered his mind to visit his bre...

We read Exodus 2:15–25 today, and as we begin, we see that after Pharaoh found out about Moses killing one of the Egyptians, Pharaoh tried to kill Moses. Therefore, Moses fled to the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well. The daughters of the priest of Midian came to that well to water their father’s flocks, as they had done several times...