Conclusion of Jehovah GIves His Laws

Later Jehovah tells  Moses:  'Come up to me in the mountain.  I will give you two flat stones on which I have written the laws that I want the people to keep.'  So Moses again goes up to the mountain. For 40 days and nights he stays there.  

God has many,many laws for the people. Moses writes these laws down.  God also gives Moses the two flat stones. On these, God himself has written  the 10 laws that he spoke to all the people. They are called The Ten Commandments.

The Ten Commandments are important laws. But so are the other many laws that God gives the Israelites.  One of these laws is:  'You must love Jehovah your God with you whole heart, your whole mind, your whole soul and your whole strength.'  Another is: 'You must love your neighbor as yourself.'  God's Son, Jesus Christ, said that these are the two greatest laws that Jehovah gave to his people Israel.  Later we will learn many things  about God's Son and his teachings. 

Exodus 19:1-25; 20:1-21l 24:12-18; 31:18; Deuteronomy 6:4-6; Leviticus 19:18; Matthew 22:36-40.

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Jehovah Gives His Laws

ABOUT two months after they leave Egypt, the Israelites come to Mount Si'nai, which is also called Hor'eb.  This is the same place where Jehovah spoke to Moses from the burning bush.  The people camp here and stay for awhile.

As the people wait below, Moses climbs the mountain. Up there on top of the mountain, Jehovah comes down, he tells the Israelites what Jehovah has said. And the people say that they will obey Jehovah because they want to be his people.

Jehovah now does a strange thing. He makes the top of the mountain smoke, and causes loud thunder.  He also speaks to the people:  'I am Jehovah, your God who brought you out of Egypt.' Then he commands: 'You must not worship any other god except me.'

God gives the Israelites nine more commandments, or laws. The people are very afraid.  They tell Moses: 'You speak to us, because we are afraid that if God speaks to us we may die.' 

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Deliverance From Egypt to Israel's First King

Moses led the Israelites from captivity in Egypt to Mount Sinai, where God gave them his laws. Later, Moses sent 12 men to spy out the land of Ca'naan. But 10 of them returned with a bad report.  They caused the people to want to go back to Egypt.  For their lack of faith, God punished the Israelites by having them wander for 40 years in the wilderness.

Finally, Joshua was chosen to lead the Israelites into the land of Ca'naan. To help them take the land, Jehovah caused miracles to happen. He made the Jordan River to stop flowing, the walls of Jericho to fall down, and the sun to stay still for a whole day. After six years, the land was taken from the Ca'naanites. 

Beginning with Joshua, Israel was ruled for 365 years by judges. We learn about many of them including Barak, Gideon, Jephthah, Samson and Samuel.  we also read about such women as Rahab, Deborah, Jael, Ruth, Naomi and Delilah. In all part Three covers 396 years of history.

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Conclusion of A New Kind of Food

'You are to pick up as much as each person can eat,' Moses tells the people. So each morning this is what they do. Then, when the sun gets hot, the manna left on the ground melts.

Moses also says:  'No one is to save any of the manna over to the next day.'  But some of them don't listen. Do you know what happens?  The next morning the manna that they have saved is full of  worms, and it began to stink!

There is one day of the week, however, that Jehovah tells the people to gather twice as much manna.  This is the sixth day. And Jehovah says to save some of it over to the next day, because he will not cause any to fall on the seventh day.  When the save the manna over to the seventh day, it doesn't get full of worms and it doesn't stink!  This is another miracle! 

All the years that the Israelites are in the wilderness Jehovah feeds them with manna. 

Exodus 16:1-36; Numbers 11:7-9; Joshua 5:10-12.

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A New Kind of Food

The Isaelites are picking up manna off the ground? It is like frost. It is white, and it is thin and flaky. But it's not frost, It's something to eat.

It has only been about a month since the Israelites left Egypt. They are in the wilderness. Little food grows her, and so the people complain, saying:  'We wish that Jehovah had killed us in Egypt. At least there we had all the food that we wanted.'

So Jehovah says: 'I am going to cause food to rain down from the sky.' And this is what Jehovah does.  The next morning when the Israelites  see this white stuff that has fallen, they ask one another: 'What is it?' 

Moses says:  'This is the food that Jehovah has given you to eat.'  The people call it manna. It tastes like thin bread with honey. 

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Conclusion of Crossing the Red Sea

When they did, God caused the wheels of their chariots to fall off.  The Egyptians. became very much afraid and began to cry out:  'Jehovah is fighting for the Israelites against us. Let's get out of here!'  But it was too late.

This is when Jehovah told Moses to stretch his stick out over the Red Seam  And when  Moses did, the walls of water  began to come back and cover the Egyptians and their chariots.  The whole army had followed the Israelites into the sea. And not one of the Egyptians got out alive!

How happy all God's people were to be saved!  The men sang a song of thanks to Jehovah, saying:  'Jehovah has won a glorious victory. He has thrown the horses and their riders into the sea.'  Moses' sister Mir'i-am took her tambourine, and all the women follower her with their tambourine. And as they danced with joy, the sang the very same song as the men were singing: 'Jehovah has won a glorious victory. He has thrown the horses and their riders into the sea.'

Exodus chapters 12 to 15. 

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Continue with Crossing the Red Sea

So Phar'aoh changed his mind once more.  He quickly got his war chariot ad his army ready.  Then he began to chase after the Israelites with 600 special chariots, as well as all the other chariots of Egypt. 

When the Israelites saw Phar'aoh and his army coming after them, the were very much afraid. There was no way to flee.  The Red Sea was on one side of them, and the Egyptians were coming from the other direction. But Jehovah put a cloud between his people and the Egyptians. So the Egyptians were not able to see the Israelites to attack them.

Jehovah told Moses to stretch his stick out over the Red Sea.  When he did, Jehovah caused a strong east wind to blow. The waters of the sea were parted, and waters were held up on both sides. 

Then Israelites began to march through the sea on dry ground. It took hours  for the millions of people with all their animals to get safely through the sea to the other side.  Finally, the Egyptians were able to see the Israelites again. Their slaves were getting away!  So they rushed into the sea after them.  

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Crossing the Red Sea

Moses is stretching out his stick over  the Red Sea.  Those with him safely on the other side are the Israelites. But Phar'aoh and his army are being drowned in the sea. Let's see how this came about.

As we learned, Phar'aoh told the Israelites to leave Egypt after God brought the fifth plague on the Egyptians. About 600,000 Israelite men left, as well as many women and children. Also, a large number of other people, who had become believers in Jehovah, left with the Israelites.  They all took their sheep and goats and cattle with them.

Before they left, the Israelites asked the Egyptians for clothes and for things made of gold and silver.  The Egyptians were very much afraid, because of that last plague upon them. So they gave the Israelites everything they asked for. 

After a few days the Israelites came to the Red Sea. There they rested. In the meantime, Phar'aoh and his men began to feel sorry that they sent the Israelites away.  'We have let our slaves go!' they said. 

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Conclusion of The 10 Plagues

The ninth plague was of darkness. For three days thick darkness covered the land, but the Israelites had light where they were living.  

Finally, God told his people to sprinkle the blood of a young goat or a young sheep on their doorposts. Then God's angel passed over Egypt.  When the angel saw the blood, he did not kill anyone in that house. But in all the houses were there was no blood on the doorposts, God''s angle killed the firstborn ones of both  man and animals. This was the tenth plague. 

Note: I am sorry, I could not remember for sure, but I read the plagues  again and it is the last plague.  I am 72 so, please, forgive me as memories tend to go and some do not come back and sometimes, it gets confused with other subjects. 

After this last plague, Phar'aoh told the Israelites to leave. God's people were all ready to go, and that very night they started their march out of Egypt.

Exodus chapters 7-12. 

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Continue with The 10 Plagues

Next, Moses and Aaron took some ashes and threw them into the air. They caused bad sores of the people and the animals. This was the sixth plague.

After that Moses raised his hand toward the sky, and Jehovah sent thunder and hail. It was the worst hailstorm that Egypt ever had. 

The eighth plague was a large swarm of locusts. Never before that time or since have there been so many locusts. They ate everything that the hail had not destroyed.



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