UNDERSTANDING EXODUS | VITAL STATISTICS
0. Introduction
a) The Bible Book Introductions are divided into 4 parts (Overview, Vital Statistics, Blueprint, Mega-themes) for easy-to-understand.
1. Vital Statistics
@1. Purpose:
a) To record the events of Israel's deliverance from Egypt and development as a nation.
@2. Author:
a) Moses.
@3. Date Written:
a) 1450-1410 B.C., approximately the same as Genesis.
@4. Where Written:
a) In the wilderness during Israel's wanderings, somewhere in the Sinai peninsula.
@5. Setting:
a) Egypt, God's people, once highly favored in the land, are now slaves. God is about to set them free.
@6. Key Verse:
a) 7 And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. 8 So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” (Exodus 3:7-10 NKJV)
@7. Key People:
a) Moses, Miriam, Pharaoh, Pharaoh's daughter, Jethro, Aaron, Joshua, Bezalel.
@8. Key Places:
a) Egypt, Goshen, Nile River, Midian, Red Sea, Sinai peninsula, Mount Sinai.
@9. Special Features:
a) Exodus relates more miracles than any other Old Testament book and is noted for containing the Ten Commandments.
a) The Bible Book Introductions are divided into 4 parts (Overview, Vital Statistics, Blueprint, Mega-themes) for easy-to-understand.
1. Vital Statistics
@1. Purpose:
a) To record the events of Israel's deliverance from Egypt and development as a nation.
@2. Author:
a) Moses.
@3. Date Written:
a) 1450-1410 B.C., approximately the same as Genesis.
@4. Where Written:
a) In the wilderness during Israel's wanderings, somewhere in the Sinai peninsula.
@5. Setting:
a) Egypt, God's people, once highly favored in the land, are now slaves. God is about to set them free.
@6. Key Verse:
a) 7 And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. 8 So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” (Exodus 3:7-10 NKJV)
@7. Key People:
a) Moses, Miriam, Pharaoh, Pharaoh's daughter, Jethro, Aaron, Joshua, Bezalel.
@8. Key Places:
a) Egypt, Goshen, Nile River, Midian, Red Sea, Sinai peninsula, Mount Sinai.
@9. Special Features:
a) Exodus relates more miracles than any other Old Testament book and is noted for containing the Ten Commandments.
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