The Old Testament
A Historical, Theological, and Critical Introduction
Chapter
2. Exodus
Bible Reading Guide
- What answer did the two midwives give to Pharaoh’s question?
- Why did Moses leave Egypt?
- What was Moses instructed to do after bringing the people out of Egypt?
- What were the circumstances behind Aaron’s appointment as Moses’s assistant?
- How did Pharaoh respond to Moses’s first request to release Israel?
- How did God reveal himself to Israel in an unprecedented manner?
- What was Moses’s first miracle before Pharaoh?
- After which plague did Pharaoh first promise to let Israel go?
- After which plague did Pharaoh first confess his sin?
- After which plague did Moses and pharaoh speak to one another for the last time?
- Why did God say that Pharaoh would refuse to listen to Moses?
- How did Israel “plunder” the Egyptians?
- What do the keeping of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the consecration of the firstborn have in common?
- What happened the night before the Red Sea was crossed?
- What was the reason for the songs of Moses and Miriam?
- For how long did Israel eat manna?
- What was Israel’s and God’s relation to the Amalekites?
- What did Moses’ father-in-law teach Moses?
- How did God first describe Israel to Moses at Sinai?
- Why were the people afraid at Mount Sinai?
- What laws are included in Exodus 21?
- In most cases of theft in the Book of the Covenant, what is the restitution for theft?
- What are the three annual feasts that Israel is to celebrate?
- How did the people respond when Moses made covenant with them at Mount Sinai?
- Describe the lampstand.
- Where was the plan for the tabernacle shown to Moses?
- How is the courtyard to be marked off?
- On what is to be placed the twelve precious stones with the names of the twelve tribes?
- With what are Aaron and his sons anointed as priests?
- How much is each Israelite to pay as a ransom for his life?
- Who is the first person in the Bible filled with God’s Spirit?
- What did Moses do with the gold calf?
- What did God first say to Moses about the next journey after the gold calf?
- When God reveals himself to Moses in the cleft of the rock, what happens to the guilty?
- What is the first command that God gives Israel through Moses after the gold calf?
- How did Israel’s freewill offerings compare to the need for the tabernacle?
- Out of what material was the altar of incense made?
- What was used to build the bronze basin?
- What was engraved on the diadem of the turban?
- What happened after Moses set up the tabernacle and courtyard?
Study Questions
- What does the Hebrew name for Exodus mean?
- If Pharaoh tries to kill all Israelite male babies, what might he expect?
- After Israel feasts with God, what two subjects do the following laws address?
- In Christianity, what did the Passover lead to?
- How does tradition history understand the origins of Exodus 4:24–26?
- Which Egyptian god does the last plague challenge?
- How does Alexander respond to the view that the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread were originally separate?
- The altar and slave laws that begin the Book of the Covenant imply what?
- Instead of liberation from slavery to freedom, Israel experiences what?
- How do the Hammurabi laws and biblical social laws differ when they begin?
- What is the likely name of Tell ed-Dab‘a in the Bible?
- What does the picture of the war tent of Ramesses II resemble?
- In 1 Corinthians 10, to what is the deliverance from Egypt compared?
- Why is the Red Sea crossing described alongside commands to celebrate it?
- What does the enveloping of civil law within religious law demonstrate?