Number nine – locusts
- Exodus 10:21-29
- No discourse, just straight to darkness
- Seventy-two hours of darkness
- Egyptians couldn’t see each other or anything
- Goshen well lit
- Pharaoh tries to negotiate again
- God hardens Pharaoh’s heart again
- Final farewell
Final plague – this is the one!
- Exodus 11:1-10
- Tell the people to ask of the Egyptians
- God gave the people favor
- Moses’ stature among all
- Midnight passing of death
- Dogs won’t bark
- Your people will beg me to go
The Passover
- Exodus 12:1-28
- Right now is the beginning of the year for you
- Passover lamb described
- One per household
- Unblemished male
- One year old
- Sheep or goat
- Kill at twilight on 14th of month
- Blood on doorposts and lintel where eaten
- Prepared – roast intact, eat with unleavened bread, bitter herbs
- Burn the leftovers
- That night
- God will go through Egypt
- Strike down all firstborn
- Execute judgment against Egyptian gods
- The blood will be a sign on the house
- God will pass over that house
- No plague will come upon that house
- Passover a permanent ordinance
- Start with seven days of unleavened bread
- No leaven in the house from first day to end
- Violation would result in being cut off from Israel
- Assembly on the first day
- Another on the seventh day
- No work on either day
- Each person prepares own portion
- Blood on the doorposts and lintel – hyssop
- Stay inside until morning
- Destroyer will pass over, not smite
- Observe forever
- Remind children
Tenth plague
- Exodus 12:29-32
- All firstborn struck dead
- From Pharaoh’s firstborn
- To firstborn among prisoners
- To firstborn cattle
- Every home affected
- Pharaoh, that night, to Moses
- Go – everyone and everything you have
- Bless me
The Exodus begins
- Exodus 12:33-42
- Egyptians afraid they would all die
- Left in haste – dough
- Gold and silver, clothing
- 600,000 men on foot
- All the people, all the herds and flocks
- Took the bread they had
- Left after 430 years to the very day
- That night was for the Lord
Passover ordinance
- Exodus 12:43-51
- No foreigner is to eat it
- Exception – circumcised slave
- No sojourners or hired servants
- Eaten in single house
- Don’t take it out
- Break no bones
- Entire congregation of Israel
Consecrate the firstborn
- Exodus 13:1-2
- Firstborn of every womb in Israel belongs to God
- Both man and beast
- Contrast to last plague?
Feast of unleavened bread commanded
- Exodus 13:3-16
- Moses: Remember this day of the month of Abib
- Out of Egypt
- Out of slavery
- Eat nothing leavened for seven days
- Continue observing after entering promised land
- Remind children why
God’s leadership made known
- Exodus 13:17-22
- Not by way of the land of the Philistines
- Might see war
- Return to Egypt
- Bones of Joseph
- God’s presence before Israel
- Pillar of cloud by day
- Pillar of fire by night
- Provide light
- Able to travel at night
The Red Sea
- Exodus 14:1-31
- Time to camp out by the sea
- Harden Pharaoh’s heart
- God will be honored
- Pharaoh and his people “come to their senses”
- Pharaoh’s army mobilized against Israel
- They come upon Israel’s encampment
- Israel: “We told you so!”
- Tell them to move forward
- Divide the sea
- God will be honored by them
- Angel of God, pillar of cloud moved
- God parts the sea
- Pharaoh’s army pursues
- God confounds the Egyptians
God honored
- Moses – stretch out your hand
- Sea returns to normal
- Covers Egyptians, none left
- Israel continued on dry land
- Egyptian bodies was up onto the shore
- Israelites saw, feared, believed
The song
- Exodus 15:1-21
- Song of Moses? Revelation 15:3
- There is, apparently, a song of Moses
- Is this it?
- This song
- Three sections – Exodus 15:1-5, 6-10, 11-18
- Begin praising God
- Each succeeding one increases in a magnitude
- Each ends with statement of triumph
- Author Miriam?
- Probably not
- “Miriam answered them …”
- Three sections – Exodus 15:1-5, 6-10, 11-18