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Out of Egypt

The rescue that the rest of Scripture keeps looking back to — the bush, the plagues, the Passover, the sea, and the mountain.

17 items · 395 verses · 52 m 38 s of audio ready (395 of 395 verses, voice “Rooted Narrator”)

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    A king who did not know Joseph range
  2. 2
    Moses in the basket range
  3. 3
    The burning bush range
  4. 4
    Signs for a reluctant man range
  5. 5
    Let My people go range
  6. 6
    The plagues begin range
  7. 7
    Frogs, gnats, and flies range
  8. 8
    Livestock, boils, and hail range
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    Locusts and darkness range
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    The Passover range
  11. 11
    Through the sea on dry ground range
  12. 12
    The song of Moses range
  13. 13
    Bread from heaven range
  14. 14
    Water from the rock range
  15. 15
    The Ten Commandments range
  16. 16
    The golden calf range
  17. 17
    Show me Your glory range

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Reading order — first 40 of 395

  1. Exodus.1.1
    1These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:
  2. 2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
  3. 3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
  4. 4Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
  5. 5The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.
  6. 6Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
  7. 7but the Israelites were fruitful and increased rapidly; they multiplied and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.
  8. 8Then a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power in Egypt.
  9. 9“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.
  10. 10Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”
  11. 11So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
  12. 12But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.
  13. 13They worked the Israelites ruthlessly
  14. 14and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.
  15. 15Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,
  16. 16“When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.”
  17. 17The midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had instructed; they let the boys live.
  18. 18So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”
  19. 19The midwives answered Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife arrives.”
  20. 20So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became even more numerous.
  21. 21And because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own.
  22. 22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”
  23. 1Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,
  24. 2and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months.
  25. 3But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
  26. 4And his sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
  27. 5Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.
  28. 6When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”
  29. 7Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”
  30. 8“Go ahead,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. And the girl went and called the boy’s mother.
  31. 9Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.
  32. 10When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”
  33. 1Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
  34. 2There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
  35. 3So Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?”
  36. 4When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from within the bush, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am,” he answered.
  37. 5“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
  38. 6Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
  39. 7The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
  40. 8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.