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1Reading 1 Exodus 1:1–17Chapter page with footnotes →

The Israelites Multiply in Egypt

^1:1And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt with Jacob; each man with his household came.

²Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

³Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

⁴Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

⁵And all the soul coming out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt.

⁶And Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation. ⁷And the sons of Israel were fruitful and swarmed and multiplied and grew mighty exceedingly, exceedingly; and the land was filled with them.

Oppression by a New King

⁸And there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. ⁹And he said to his people, "Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are many and mightier than we. ¹⁰Come, let us deal wisely with it, lest it multiply, and it come to pass, when war befalls, that it too join to those who hate us and fight against us and go up from the land."

¹¹And they set over it chiefs of forced labor in order to afflict it with their burdens; and it built store-cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Rameses. ¹²But just as they afflicted it, so it multiplied and so it spread; and they were in dread because of the sons of Israel.

¹³And Egypt made the sons of Israel to serve with harshness. ¹⁴And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in bricks and in all service in the field; all their service which they made them serve with harshness.

¹⁵And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the second Puah, ¹⁶and he said, "When you act as midwife to the Hebrew women and see upon the birthstool: if it is a son, then you shall put him to death; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."

¹⁷And the midwives feared God, and they did not do as the king of Egypt had spoken to them, but they kept the male children alive.

2Reading 2 Exodus 1:18–2:10Chapter page with footnotes →

^1:18And the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, "Why have you done this thing and kept the male children alive?"

¹⁹And the midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are lively; before the midwife comes to them they have given birth."

²⁰And God did good to the midwives; and the people multiplied and grew very mighty. ²¹And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that He made for them houses.

²²And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "Every son that is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall keep alive."

The Birth and Adoption of Moses

^2:1And a man went from the house of Levi and took a daughter of Levi. ²And the woman conceived and bore a son; and she saw him, that he was good, and she hid him three months.

³And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him a basket of papyrus and daubed it with bitumen and with pitch; and she put the child in it and set it in the reeds by the bank of the river. ⁴And his sister stationed herself at a distance to know what would be done to him.

⁵And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, and her maidens were walking by the side of the river; and she saw the basket in the midst of the reeds and sent her handmaid, and she took it. ⁶And she opened it and saw him, the child, and behold, a boy weeping; and she had compassion on him and said, "This is one of the children of the Hebrews."

⁷And his sister said to the daughter of Pharaoh, "Shall I go and call for you a nursing woman from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?"

⁸And the daughter of Pharaoh said to her, "Go." And the young woman went and called the mother of the child.

⁹And the daughter of Pharaoh said to her, "Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give your wages." And the woman took the child and nursed him.

¹⁰And the child grew, and she brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he became to her as a son; and she called his name Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."

3Reading 3 Exodus 2:11–25Chapter page with footnotes →

The Rejection and Flight of Moses

^2:11And it came to pass in those days, when Moses had grown, that he went out to his brothers and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man, of his brothers. ¹²And he turned this way and that way and saw that there was no man, and he struck the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

¹³And he went out on the second day, and behold, two Hebrew men were striving; and he said to the wicked one, "Why do you strike your fellow?"

¹⁴And he said, "Who set you as a man, a ruler and a judge over us? Are you intending to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" And Moses feared and said, "Surely the thing is known."

¹⁵And Pharaoh heard this thing and sought to kill Moses; but Moses fled from before Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian, and he sat by the well.

¹⁶And the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. ¹⁷And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses arose and saved them and watered their flock.

¹⁸And they came to Reuel their father, and he said, "Why have you come so quickly today?"

¹⁹And they said, "An Egyptian man delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and also he indeed drew water for us and watered the flock."

²⁰And he said to his daughters, "And where is he? Why is it that you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."

²¹And Moses was willing to dwell with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses. ²²And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land."

God Hears the Cry of the Israelites

²³And it came to pass in those many days that the king of Egypt died; and the sons of Israel groaned because of the service and cried out, and their cry went up to God from the service.

²⁴And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. ²⁵And God saw the sons of Israel, and God knew.

4Reading 4 Exodus 3:1–15Chapter page with footnotes →

Moses at the Burning Bush

^3:1And Moses was shepherding the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock behind the wilderness and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb. ²And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of the bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. ³And Moses said, "Let me turn aside now and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn up."

⁴And the LORD saw that he had turned aside to see, and God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, "Moses, Moses." And he said, "Here am I."

⁵And He said, "Do not draw near here; remove your sandals from upon your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground." ⁶And He said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look toward God.

⁷And the LORD said, "I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; for I know their pains. ⁸And I have come down to deliver it from the hand of Egypt and to bring it up from that land to a good and broad land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

⁹And now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me, and also I have seen the oppression with which Egypt oppresses them. ¹⁰And now come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, and bring out My people, the sons of Israel, from Egypt."

¹¹And Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring out the sons of Israel from Egypt?"

¹²And He said, "For I will be with you; and this shall be the sign for you that I have sent you: when you bring out the people from Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain."

¹³And Moses said to God, "Behold, I am coming to the sons of Israel, and I shall say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they will say to me, 'What is His name?' What shall I say to them?"

¹⁴And God said to Moses, "I AM THAT I AM." And He said, "Thus shall you say to the sons of Israel: I AM has sent me to you."

¹⁵And God said further to Moses, "Thus shall you say to the sons of Israel: the LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial for generation after generation.

5Reading 5 Exodus 3:16–4:17Chapter page with footnotes →

^3:16Go and gather the elders of Israel and say to them, 'the LORD, the God of your fathers, has appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: I have surely visited you and seen what is done to you in Egypt. ¹⁷And I have said, I will bring you up from the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.'

¹⁸And they will listen to your voice; and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall say to him, 'the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now let us go, please, a journey of three days into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.'

¹⁹And I know that the king of Egypt will not give you to go, not even by a strong hand. ²⁰And I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in its midst; and after that he will send you out.

²¹And I will give this people favor in the eyes of Egypt; and it shall come to pass, when you go, you shall not go empty. ²²But each woman shall ask of her neighbor and of the sojourner in her house articles of silver and articles of gold and garments; and you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters, and you shall plunder Egypt.

Moses’ Staff

^4:1And Moses answered and said, "And behold, they will not believe me, and they will not listen to my voice; for they will say, the LORD has not appeared to you."

²And the LORD said to him, "What is this in your hand?" And he said, "A rod."

³And He said, "Cast it to the ground." And he cast it to the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.

⁴And the LORD said to Moses, "Put forth your hand and take hold of its tail" — and he put forth his hand and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his palm — ⁵so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.

Moses’ Hand

⁶And the LORD said further to him, "Bring now your hand into your bosom." And he brought his hand into his bosom, and he brought it out, and behold, his hand was leprous like snow.

⁷And He said, "Return your hand to your bosom." And he returned his hand to his bosom, and he brought it out from his bosom, and behold, it had returned like his flesh.

⁸And it shall be, if they will not believe you, and will not listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. ⁹And it shall be, if they will not believe even these two signs, and will not listen to your voice, that you shall take from the water of the river and pour it on the dry ground; and the water which you take from the river shall become blood on the dry land.

The Appointment of Aaron

¹⁰And Moses said to the LORD, "Oh, my Lord, I am not a man of words, neither yesterday nor the day before, nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am heavy of mouth and heavy of tongue."

¹¹And the LORD said to him, "Who set a mouth for the man? Or who makes mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD? ¹²And now go, and I will be with your mouth, and I will teach you what you shall speak."

¹³And he said, "Oh, my Lord, send, I pray, by the hand of whom You will send."

¹⁴And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and He said, "Is there not Aaron your brother the Levite? I know that he can surely speak. And also, behold, he is coming out to meet you, and he will see you and be glad in his heart. ¹⁵And you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you both what you shall do. ¹⁶And he shall speak for you to the people; and it shall be that he will be for you as a mouth, and you will be for him as God. ¹⁷And this rod you shall take in your hand, with which you shall do the signs."

6Reading 6 Exodus 4:18–31Chapter page with footnotes →

Moses Leaves for Egypt

^4:18And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, "Let me go, I pray, and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still living." And Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."

¹⁹And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return to Egypt; for all the men who sought your soul are dead." ²⁰And Moses took his wife and his sons, and made them ride on the donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt; and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

²¹And the LORD said to Moses, "When you go to return to Egypt, see all the wonders which I have put in your hand, and you shall do them before Pharaoh; but I will harden his heart, and he will not let the people go.

²²And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says the LORD: Israel is My son, My firstborn. ²³And I say to you, Let My son go, that he may serve Me; and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I am slaying your son, your firstborn."

²⁴And it came to pass on the way, at the lodging place, that the LORD met him and sought to put him to death. ²⁵And Zipporah took a flint and cut off the foreskin of her son, and touched it to his feet, and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."

²⁶So He let him alone. Then she said, "A bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.

The People Believe Moses and Aaron

²⁷And the LORD said to Aaron, "Go to meet Moses to the wilderness." And he went, and met him at the mountain of God, and kissed him. ²⁸And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD with which He had sent him, and all the signs which He had commanded him.

²⁹And Moses and Aaron went and gathered all the elders of the sons of Israel. ³⁰And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. ³¹And the people believed; and they heard that the LORD had visited the sons of Israel, and that He had seen their affliction, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.

7Reading 7 Exodus 5:1–6:1Chapter page with footnotes →

Pharaoh’s First Refusal

^5:1And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness."

²And Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD, that I should listen to His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go."

³And they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go, we pray, a journey of three days into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, lest He fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword."

⁴And the king of Egypt said to them, "Why, Moses and Aaron, do you loose the people from their works? Go to your burdens." ⁵And Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you would make them shabbat from their burdens."

Bricks and Straw

⁶And Pharaoh commanded on that day the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying: ⁷"You shall not continue to give straw to the people to make the bricks, as yesterday and the day before; let them go and gather straw for themselves. ⁸And the quota of bricks which they made yesterday and the day before you shall lay upon them; you shall not diminish from it; for they are idle; therefore they cry out, saying, Let us go, let us sacrifice to our God. ⁹Let the service be heavy upon the men, that they may work in it, and not regard lying words."

¹⁰And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, "Thus says Pharaoh: I am not giving you straw. ¹¹You, go, take for yourselves straw from wherever you find it; for nothing of your service shall be diminished."

¹²So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. ¹³And the taskmasters were pressing, saying, "Finish your works, the matter of a day in its day, as when there was straw."

¹⁴And the officers of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, saying, "Why have you not finished your statute of making brick, both yesterday and today, as yesterday?"

The Cry of the Israelites

¹⁵Then the officers of the sons of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal thus with your servants? ¹⁶Straw is not given to your servants, and they say to us, Make brick; and behold, your servants are beaten, and the sin is your people's."

¹⁷And he said, "You are idle, idle! Therefore you say, Let us go, let us sacrifice to the LORD. ¹⁸And now go, work; and straw shall not be given to you, yet you shall deliver the measure of bricks."

¹⁹And the officers of the sons of Israel saw themselves in trouble, when it was said, "You shall not diminish from your bricks, the matter of a day in its day." ²⁰And they met Moses and Aaron standing to meet them, as they came out from Pharaoh.

²¹And they said to them, "May the LORD look upon you and judge, because you have made our scent stink in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us."

²²And Moses returned to the LORD and said, "My Lord, why have You done evil to this people? Why is it that You sent me? ²³And since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done evil to this people; and You have not delivered Your people at all."

God Promises Deliverance

^6:1And the LORD said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for by a strong hand he will let them go, and by a strong hand he will drive them out of his land."

PIsaiah 27:6–28:13Chapter page with footnotes →

^27:6Those who come, Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the face of the world with produce.

⁷As the blow of the one who struck him, has he struck him? Or as the slaughter of his slain, has he been slain?

⁸In measure, when you send her away, you contend with her; he drove her out with his hard spirit in the day of the east blast.

⁹Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be atoned, and this is all the fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altar like chalkstones beaten in pieces, the Asherim and the sun-pillars shall not stand.

¹⁰For the fortified city is solitary, a pasture forsaken and abandoned like the wilderness; there the calf grazes, and there it lies down and consumes its branches.

¹¹When its boughs are withered, they are broken off; women come and kindle them. For it is a people without understanding; therefore its Maker has no compassion on it, and its Former shows it no grace.

¹²And it shall be in that day, that the LORD will beat off his grain from the flood of the River to the Brook of Egypt; and you shall be gathered one by one, O children of Israel. ¹³And it shall be in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come who were lost in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt, and they shall worship the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Woe to the Crown of Pride of Ephraim

^28:1Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of those struck down with wine!

²Behold, my Lord has a strong and mighty one, like a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction, like a storm of mighty waters overflowing; he casts down to the earth with the hand.

³With feet shall be trodden down the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim.

⁴And the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before summer, which when one who sees it sees it, while it is yet in his hand he swallows it.

⁵In that day the LORD of hosts shall be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people,

⁶and for a spirit of judgment to him who sits over the judgment, and for strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

⁷And these also reel through wine, and stagger through strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they stagger through strong drink; they reel in vision, they totter in judgment.

⁸For all the tables are full of vomit and filth, with no place clean.

⁹Whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make to understand the message? Those weaned from milk, those drawn from the breasts.

¹⁰For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, a little there, a little there.

¹¹For with stammering lips and with another tongue he will speak to this people, ¹²he who said to them, "This is the rest, give rest to the weary, and this is the repose"; yet they would not hear.

¹³And the word of the LORD shall be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, a little there, a little there; that they may go, and stumble backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

PIsaiah 29:22–23Chapter page with footnotes →

^29:22Therefore thus says the LORD to the house of Jacob, who redeemed Abraham: Not now shall Jacob be ashamed, and not now shall his face grow pale.

²³For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they shall sanctify my name, and they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand in awe of the God of Israel.

AActs 7:17–36Chapter page with footnotes →

^7:17But as the time of the promise drew near which God had sworn to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt, ¹⁸until there arose another king who did not know Joseph. ¹⁹It was he who dealt shrewdly with our race and mistreated our fathers so that they would expose their infants so that they would not survive.

The Birth and Adoption of Moses

²⁰It was at this appointed time that Moses was born; and he was pleasing to God, and he was nurtured for three months in his father's house. ²¹And after he had been set outside, Pharaoh's daughter took him up and nurtured him as her own son. ²²And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was powerful in his words and deeds.

The Rejection and Flight of Moses

²³But when he was approaching the age of forty, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel. ²⁴And when he saw one of them being treated unjustly, he defended him and took vengeance for the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian. ²⁵And he supposed that his brothers would understand that God was granting them Salvation through his hand, but they did not understand.

²⁶And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling, and he tried to reconcile them in peace, saying, 'Men, you are brothers; why do you wrong one another?'

²⁷But the one who was wronging his neighbor pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? ²⁸You do not want to kill me in the same way you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?' ²⁹And Moses fled at this word and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

The Call of Moses

³⁰And after forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush. ³¹When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight; and as he approached to look more closely, the voice of the Lord came to him. ³²'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.' And Moses was trembling and dared not look closely.

³³But the Lord said to him, 'Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground. ³⁴I have certainly seen the oppression of My people in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them; and now come, I will send you to Egypt.'

³⁵This Moses whom they disowned, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?' — this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer through the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. ³⁶This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.