Questions tagged [exodus]
The second book of the Hebrew Bible, starting with Israel in Egyptian slavery and ending with the building of the tabernacle in the desert.
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What did Jesus likely say in John 8:58?
In John 8:58, the author quotes Jesus:
. ..πρὶν Ἀβραὰμ γενέσθαι ἐγὼ εἰμί (NA28)
...before Abraham was, I am (ESV)
Many have understood this as a claim to divinity, and some translations render ...
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The Pharaoh of the Exodus
Is there any textual evidence in Hebrew Bible or Christian New Testament that would identify the Pharaoh involved with Moses and the Exodus? Is there any textual evidence that would also correspond ...
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Why does Exodus 3 refer to “the angel of the LORD”?
Exodus 3:2 (ESV):
And the angel of the LORD (malʾak yhwh) appeared to [Moses] in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush.
It seems pretty clear from what follows that the individual in the bush ...
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Why isn't the Tetragrammaton used in Exodus 3:14?
I do not know Hebrew, but I've always been under the impression that the Tetragrammaton is a literal "I AM".
Strongs: 1961 אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה
http://biblehub.com/hebrew/1961.htm
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Strongs 3068 יְהֹוָה
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Is God the creator / bringer of evil according to Isaiah 45:7 and 2 Kings 22:20?
At least two places in the Hebrew Bible can be understood as God bringing evil.
Isaiah 45:7 KJV: I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
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Did God want to kill Moses?
In Exodus 4:24 (NASB)
But it came about at the overnight encampment on the way, that the Lord met Moses, and sought to put him to death.
Did God want to kill Moses?
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Has anyone seen God or not?
In Exodus 33:11
So the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks
to his friend. When Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua,
the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart ...
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What was written on the stone tablets?
The wikipedia page, and most other depictions of the tablets are that they are of the ten commandments. When I read Exodus, it seems at least to me a little less clear as to what exactly was written, ...
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What did the 70 elders see, if man can't see God and live?
Exodus 24:10 says, of the 70 elders who went up on the mountain with Moshe:
וַיִּרְאוּ, אֵת אֱלֹהֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל
and they saw the God of Israel
Meanwhile, Exodus 33:20 says, when Moshe asks to see God:...
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What exactly did Moses do wrong at Meribah?
We read that God commanded Moses to speak to the rock at Meribah so that water could flow out of it. Instead, Moses struck the rock with his staff:
Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly ...
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How long were the Children of Israel enslaved in Egypt, according to the Bible?
In Genesis 15:13 God told Abram that his descendants would be slaves in a foreign land for 400 years. This number is also mentioned in Acts 7:6.
Exodus 12:41 says that the Israelites were in Egypt ...
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In Exodus 3:2-4 does God stand beside the angel in the burning bush?
I am reading in the book of Exodus chapter 3 (KJV) about the angel of the Lord appearing to Moses in the burning bush.It is written,
Exodus 3:2
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a ...
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What translation philosophies have caused such a wide variation in the translation of *tachash* skins?
In Exodus (e.g. 26:14), we learn one of the coverings for the tabernacle is to be made of "תחש" (tachash) skins. The translation of this term appears to be especially difficult or contentious as there ...
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Exodus 6:3 - what is the significance of God's different names in the Tanakh?
Exodus 6:3:
And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob by the name of
God Almighty, but by My name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. (KJV)
This is a strange and unique verse in the ...
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Exodus 21:22: is “mischief” related only to the mother or to the baby, too?
Exodus 21:22 (KJV):
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart
from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished,
according as the woman's husband will ...
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Did Pharoah have free will?
Pharoah starts by hardening his own heart, but then God hardens it (here is the list of verses). Did God remove Pharoah's free will?
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Ex 24:10 Seventy elders saw God in what form?
Ex 24:9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, 10and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like ...
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Why is a singular verb used to describe both Moses and Aaron?
Continuing the response to the meta call for contradiction.
The following contradiction is invisible in English. It appears in the Hebrew of Exodus 4:29.
וַיֵּלֶךְ מֹשֶׁה, וְאַהֲרֹן; וַיַּאַסְפוּ, ...
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Is “kill” a valid translation for Exodus 20:13 (Thou shalt not kill)?
Exodus 20:13 (KJV)
Thou shalt not kill.
Many political statements have been made about this verse. This translation has been used by many to support their pacifist desires. However, it seems that ...
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Why should an altar be made with uncut stone?
God told Moses that the altar must be made of unhewn stones:
And if you make for Me an altar of stones, do not build it of hewn stones; for by wielding your tool upon them you have profaned them.&...
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Does the Hebrew word “olam“ mean “forever” in Leviticus 23:41?
Several passages refer to keeping a feast as a statute forever. For instance,
Exodus 12:14 reads:
“This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout ...
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In Exodus, Were the Tablets of Stone a Testimony, or did they Contain Testimony? [duplicate]
Closely Related:
- What was written on the stone tablets?
- Why were the Ten Commandments written on two tablets?
- Does anyone know for sure what was written in the tablets mentioned in Exodus 16:34?
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Who are the “third and fourth generation” in Exodus 20:5?
“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down ...
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Numbers 23:19 Says God doesn't repent, Exodus 32:14 Says He repented?
Numbers 23:19 (KJV)
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
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Is God still at war with Amalek?
After they are defeated by the Israelites at Rephidim, God promises unending judgement on Amalek in Exodus 17:
14Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in ...
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The Ten Commandments were based on the Code of Hammurabi?
A topic that was discussed among peers was that the Ten Commandments of Christian and Jewish faith were based off the Code of Hammurabi.
I looked into the Wikipedia article and was informed that ...
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What is the significance of Moses being called a “bridegroom of blood?”
In Exodus 4:24–26 the story is recounted of Moses' failure or delay in circumcising his son, and Zipporah stepping in herself to perform the right, saving Moses' life.
I am aware some theologians ...
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What does it means to have “uncircumcised lips”?
Twice in Exodus Moses declares that he has "uncircumcised lips."
But Moses said to the LORD, “Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for ...
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Sandals and Holy Ground
In Exodus 3, Moses is commanded to take off his shoes because he is standing on holy ground, yet before him is appearing an Angel of the LORD, not God himself (in contrast to Exodus 19 an onward where ...
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Who was Moses supposed to say sent him, “Ehieh” or “Yahweh”
Continuing the response to the meta call for contradiction.
In Exodus 3:13-14, Moses is talking to God:
And Moses said to God, "Here I come to the sons of Israel, and I told them, the God of ...
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Tetragrammaton originally יהיה (yihayah) (3PersMascSing 'exist, be') and subsequently the nominal form (יהוה) (the Being)?
The Question Essentially
Is it possible that God's name is a nominal version of the third person masculine singular verb to exist or to be: יהיה.
Can יהיה be validly understood as "he [that] ...
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If no one has ever seen God, how come Moses was allowed to see His back?
John 1:18 claims that no one has ever seen God, except Jesus:
18 God no one hath ever seen; the only begotten Son, who is on the bosom of the Father -- he did declare.
However, Moses was apparently ...
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In the song of Moses and Miriam, why do the words change from “water” to “earth”?
In Exodus 15:1-12, it is written:
Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the Lord, and
they spoke, saying, I will sing to the Lord, for very exalted is He; a
horse and its ...
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Does Exodus explain itself as to why God hardens Pharaoh's heart in chapter 4? [closed]
Exodus 4:21 reads:
The Lord said to Moses, “When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he ...
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Could Isaiah 6:1-2 be an allusion to Exodus 33:20?
Exodus 33:20 (NKJV)
20 But He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.”
Isaiah 6:1-2 (NKJV)
1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, ...
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How does the author of Acts say Moses was a man of power in words and deeds in Acts 7:22?
Acts 7:22: Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and he was a man of power in words and deeds.
But when had been called upon to go to Egypt to proclaim God's message Moses claimed ...
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In Exodus 14:16, could “divide the water” also mean, “break the water.”
In Exodus 14:16 (NIV) Moses is told by the Lord,
Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the
water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.
I am ...
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Do the modern translations use God's proper name?
Does the original Hebrew text read "I am" or "YHWH" where Moses is asking G_d who to say sent him in Exodus 3:14?
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Why does Adonai instruct us to not prepare a goat in its mother's milk?
In the Pentateuch there are at least three repetitions of the following prohibition:
Exodus 23:19b (ESV)
You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Exodus 34:26b (ESV)
You ...
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The lexicology of Pharaoh's heart
In the narrative of Exodus 4-14 (spanning from the time of Moses's initial assignment until the crossing of the Red Sea), there are three different verbs used to describe the action against and/or the ...
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Did Ezekiel intend to contradict Exodus 20?
From the Decalogue, Exodus 20:5 (ESV):
You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and ...
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Why does God say he only revealed his name, Yahweh, to Moses?
Responding the the meta call for contradiction In Exodus 6:2 we find the following quote:
And God spoke to Moses and said to him
I am Yahweh. And I showed to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as El-...
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Did God make an idol?
In the Decalogue God forbids the making and or worshiping of images in the form of anything in the created order.
And God spoke all these words: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of ...
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Did the Hebrews spend time in Egypt for 400 or 430 years?
I know this seems like an old question but here's the contradiction I'm struggling with:
400 years
"Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants
will be strangers in a ...
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According to 1 Corinthians 10:1-4, does the Red Sea in Exodus 14:22 represent Jesus' Blood?
In 1 Corinthians 10:1-4 Paul gives an interpretation of what happened from the OT Exodus 14:22 & Numbers 20:11 as something that leads to baptism and Christ Himself. With that in mind, would it be ...
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How can Jesus say “My Father is working until now” in John 5:16,17 if God rested on the 7th day?
John 5:16,17 (ESV)
And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing
these things on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them, “My Father is
working until now, and I am working....
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Is Exodus 21:21 about a dead slave or one who survives?
Exodus 21:20-21 provides provisions to avenge the maltreatment of a slave:
When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. But if ...
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Why is the genealogy of Moses placed in the middle of his life story?
The placement of the genealogy of Moses and Aaron, beginning at Exodus 6:14, appears to be a bit odd at first glance. One might expect it to be placed at Moses' birth or maybe his death, but instead ...
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Exo. 4:16 - “And you shall be to him for [an] elohim” (וְאַתָּה תִּהְיֶה לֹּו לֵאלֹהִים)
In Exo. 4:16, it is written,
And he shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be --- he shall be to you for a mouth, and you shall be to him for [an] elohim [אֱלֹהִים]
וְדִבֶּר הוּא לְךָ אֶל ...
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Why did the Egyptians view shepherds as detestable and why did they refuse to eat with the Hebrews?
Why would the Egyptians refuse to eat with the Hebrew people? The first mention of this is in Genesis 43:32 when Joseph’s brothers first come to Egypt. The Egyptians could not eat with Joseph (a ...
