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Exodus Story
narrates Israel's faith that God delivered them from a life of servitude in Egypt.
asserts that God sided with the oppressed Hebrews and fought against the Egyptians
number of descendants of Jacob
70
Pithom and Rameses
store cities for Pharaoh
Shiphrah and Puah
Hebrew midwives
Pharaoh’s daughter
saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it, son Moses
Moses
fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, Reuel gave Zipporah in marriage, 80 years old
land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites
a land flowing with milk and honey
Jethro
father-in-law of Moses, priest of Midian
Horeb
mountain of God
Israel
firstborn son of the Lord
circumcision
“bridegroom of blood”
The Passover
on the 10th day of this month each man is to take a lamb, a lasting ordinance, Passover lamb
Festival of Unleavened Bread
In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day
430 years
length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt
History
not just the ordinary story of wars, population movement, cultural advance or decline, it is the disclosure of God's activity in events (Israel's perspective)
God
who sides with the oppressed in their struggle for liberation
Israel's History
stated in a crucial historical experience that created a self-conscious history (exodus) and event so decisive that earlier happenings and consequent experiences were seen in its light.
The Exodus Story
God's serves us, decisive event
Social Justice
requisite for any nation to have peace and security
Oppression and Inequality
invites resentment and rebellion
Shiphrah and Puah
one of the two Hebrew midwives who delivered the children of the Israelites during Egyptian servitude
Torah Chronicles
disobeyed Pharaoh’s command and did not kill the Israelite male newborns
Moses
becomes a shepherd falls in love with Zipporah, marries her and grows adjusted to life in Midian
Aaron
eldest son and middle child of Tochered, younger brother of Miriam and older brother of Aaron
Miriam
tritagonist/tochered's daughter/Moses and Aaron's older sister
Pharaoh (Rameses II)
main antagonist/adoptive brother and former best friend of Moses who runs away from Egypt after accidentally killing a guard who was abusing a slave
Zipporah
wife of Moses/daughter of Reuel/Jethro.
Jethro
priest of Midian of the Kenite clan whom Moses took refuge/father of Tzipporah/father-in-law of Moses
Mediant
engaged in pastoral pursuits, caravan trading, banditry
Goshen
tochered and her children Miriam, Aaron and Moses (baby) quickly move to the Nile where tortured sings a lullaby to Moses and leaves him in Miriam, they settled in the Goshen
Sinai
location where Moses and addresses the 10 commandments other freeing his people with the help of God
Law
served to create one people with a common way of life enforced through regulations and traditions
Exodus 19
showed Israel to be aware of the condition of the covenant – keeping the law
Hebrews
refer to many other different groups of wandering people not belonging to any socio-political org, descendants of Abraham
12 Tribes of Israel
God called his own; group leaving Egypt. lacked unity and common identity, composed of former slaves and peasants, when the people after three days of journey found only bitter water
Exodus 15:25-26
"a decree and a law"
Books of laws
Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and Numbers
Covenant
solemn agreement between parties/way people understand their relationship with God.
Sinai Covenant
agreement between much more superior party who has the power and means to grant all the promises of the covenant, blessings of being God’s “treasured possession” out of all the nations
New Testament
Jesus refocused the too legalistic understanding of the Jews in his time
Israel
recognized the centrality of justice in the law. The poor, the orphans and widows, the strangers are given a special favor in the law
Christians and Jews
believe that the Ten commandments contain the high ethical standard that we ought to observe
Egyptian army
most powerful army at that time
Miriam
praised the God of history
Caleb and Joshua
instilled fear in the hearts of the people when they reported advantages of the people living in the land and their inferiority
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