Bible Study – The Plagues in Egypt – March 29, 2026

Moses from the burning bush to being the spokes person for THE ONE TRUE GOD (YAHWEH or YHWH – THE sacred covenant name for GOD – meaning “I AM.”)

Portions copied from ONE FOR ISRAEL

Prep-Meeting before – Moses and Aaron – meet with Pharoah!

Exodus 7:1-25:

7:1 The Lord answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet. ² You must say whatever I command you; then Aaron your brother must declare it to Pharaoh so that he (Pharoah) will let the Israelites go from his land. ³ But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart and multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt. ⁴ Pharaoh will not listen to you, but I will put my hand into Egypt and bring the military divisions of my people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment. ⁵ The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the Israelites from among them.”

Our human nature rises up within when mighty things are being done by THE ONE TRUE GOD, YHWH. When serving GOD always follow HIS instructions and leadership!!!

To me verse 1 establishes the foundation for all Spirit Born Christians. It is a foreshadow of being a Spirit-born Christian where the Holy Spirit resides within each true believer in JESUS and leads and guide Sprit born Christians as they journey to the Promised Land, Heaven.

The Lord answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet. ² You (Moses) must say whatever I (GOD) command you; then Aaron your brother must declare it to Pharaoh.

This to me is a precursor of being “born again” by the indwelling Holy Spirit.

So, GOD speaks to Moses, Moses speaks to Aaron and Aaron speaks to Pharoah.

Since the coming of JESUS, I see the foreshadow of THE TRINITY: GOD, THE FATHER, JESUS, THE SON, and THE HOLY SPIRIT. The THREE are ONE!!!

All Spirit born Christians represent GOD and JESUS to the world!!!

⁶ So Moses and Aaron did this; they did just as the Lord commanded them. ⁷ Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.

⁸ The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ⁹ “When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh. It will become a serpent.’” ¹⁰ So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord had commanded. Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent. ¹¹ But then Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers—the magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same thing by their occult practices. ¹² Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed their staffs. ¹³ However, Pharaoh’s heart was hard, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

Let the battle of GOD versus Evil begin and deliver the Israelites who will be witnesses to the power of GOD to build the faith in GOD’S Chosen. The Egyptians needed to witness the power and supremacy of YHWH.

There were ten plagues which represented ten gods of the Egyptians.

THE ONE TRUE GOD OF THE ISRAELITES DEMONSTRATED TO THE PHAROAH AND THE EGYPTIANS; YHWH is THE ONE TRUE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE, the Israelites, AND IS GREATER THAN THE EGYPTIAN gods!!! Let’s Explore!!!

The First Plague: Water Turned to Blood -

¹⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hard: He refuses to let the people go. ¹⁵ Go to Pharaoh in the morning. When you see him walking out to the water, stand ready to meet him by the bank of the Nile. Take in your hand the staff that turned into a snake. ¹⁶ Tell him: The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let my people go, so that they may worship^[a] me in the wilderness. But so far you have not listened. ¹⁷ This is what the Lord says: Here is how you will know that I am the Lord. Watch. I am about to strike the water in the Nile with the staff in my hand, and it will turn to blood. ¹⁸ The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from it.”

¹⁹ So the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron: Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers, canals, ponds, and all their water reservoirs—and they will become blood. There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers.”

²⁰ Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord had commanded; in the sight of Pharaoh and his officials, he raised the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile was turned to blood. ²¹ The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad the Egyptians could not drink water from it. There was blood throughout the land of Egypt.

²² But the magicians of Egypt did the same thing by their occult practices. So, Pharaoh’s heart was hard, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said. ²³ Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and didn’t take even this to heart. ²⁴ All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink because they could not drink the water from the river. ²⁵ Seven days passed after the Lord struck the Nile.

1. The water turning to blood

There were two revered Egyptian gods that were slammed down when Moses struck the Nile. The god Khnum, supposedly the guardian of the river’s source, was clearly off duty that day, or at least no match for the God of Israel. Hapi, the god of the annual flooding of the Nile was also unable to resist the plague.

Hapi was seen as the personification of the Nile, and the most important fertility god. Demon or demons give the apparent power behind a false god.

KEEP IN YOUR MIND – Greater is HE (JESUS) WHO is in you than he who is in the world (Satan and his demons).

Khnum, on the other hand, was represented with a ram’s head, with horizontal twisting horns. This god was worshiped as a creator by the Egyptians, who believed that he created man from clay like a potter. He was also known as the lord of the surrounding First Cataract (a large, powerful waterfall or a steep, turbulent section of a river filled with rocky rapids) of the Nile River, the guardian of its source in the south.

God was proving first and foremost that their source of life, the Nile River, was under HIS command. HE was also taking on the imposter creator god, Khnum. The God of Israel was letting everyone know that HE alone was Lord of creation and life.

8 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and tell him: This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. ² But if you refuse to let them go, then I will plague all your territory with frogs. ³ The Nile will swarm with frogs; they will come up and go into your palace, into your bedroom and on your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls. ⁴ The frogs will come up on you, your people, and all your officials.”

⁵ The Lord then said to Moses, “Tell Aaron: Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, canals, and ponds, and cause the frogs to come up onto the land of Egypt.” ⁶ When Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt. ⁷ But the magicians did the same thing by their occult practices and brought frogs up onto the land of Egypt.

⁸ Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Appeal to the Lord to remove the frogs from me and my people. Then I will let the people go and they can sacrifice to the Lord.”

⁹ Moses said to Pharaoh, “You may have the honor of choosing. When should I appeal on behalf of you, your officials, and your people, that the frogs be taken away from you and your houses, and remain only in the Nile?”

¹⁰ “Tomorrow,” he answered.

Moses replied, “As you have said, so that you may know there is no one like the Lord our God, ¹¹ the frogs will go away from you, your houses, your officials, and your people. The frogs will remain only in the Nile.” ¹² After Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, Moses cried out to the Lord for help concerning the frogs that he had brought against Pharaoh. ¹³ The Lord did as Moses had said: the frogs in the houses, courtyards, and fields died. ¹⁴ They piled them in countless heaps, and there was a terrible odor in the land. ¹⁵ But when Pharaoh saw there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

The Second Plague: Frogs --- By bringing an uncontrollable plague of frogs, the God of Israel was delivering a direct strike against the Egyptian god Heqet. Representing regeneration, rebirth, and fertility, Heqet was depicted as a frog-headed woman. However, this supposedly almighty frog-god could do nothing to stop the sudden invasion of frogs, and was proved to be powerless in the face of Yahweh.

The Third Plague: Gnats (Lice, sandfleas, mosquitos)

¹⁶ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron: Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the land, and it will become gnats^[b] throughout the land of Egypt.” ¹⁷ And they did this. Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff, and when he struck the dust of the land, gnats were on people and animals. All the dust of the land became gnats throughout the land of Egypt. ¹⁸ The magicians tried to produce gnats using their occult practices, but they could not. The gnats remained on people and animals.

¹⁹ “This is the finger of God,” the magicians said to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh’s heart was hard, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

Lice (Gnats, fleas)

Geb (also known as Seb or Keb) was considered a god of the earth, often portrayed as a goose or as a man stretched out in the dust of the earth. While earth deities in other cultures are usually considered female, Geb was male and bisexual, yet able to produce eggs, representing fertility. The earth itself was seen as his house and earthquakes were thought to be his laughter. But when God showed His sovereignty over the earth and all that was in it by bringing a plague of lice, there was no more laughing. The Egyptian earth god Geb was silenced. Moses struck the dust of the earth with his rod bringing the plague of lice by the finger of God.

The Fourth Plague: Swarms of Flies

²⁰ The Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh when you see him going out to the water. Tell him: This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so that they may worship^[c] me. ²¹ But if you will not let my people go, then I will send swarms of flies^[d] against you, your officials, your people, and your houses. The Egyptians’ houses will swarm with flies, and so will the land where they live.^[e] 22 But on that day I will give special treatment to the land of Goshen, where my people are living; no flies will be there. This way you will know that I, the Lord, am in the land. ²³ I will make a distinction^[f] between my people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow.”

²⁴ And the Lord did this. Thick swarms of flies went into Pharaoh’s palace and his officials’ houses. Throughout Egypt the land was ruined because of the swarms of flies. ²⁵ Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go sacrifice to your God within the country.”

²⁶ But Moses said, “It would not be right^[g] to do that, because what we will sacrifice to the Lord our God is detestable to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice what the Egyptians detest in front of them, won’t they stone us? ²⁷ We must go a distance of three days into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God as he instructs us.”

²⁸ Pharaoh responded, “I will let you go and sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness, but don’t go very far. Make an appeal for me.”

²⁹ “As soon as I leave you,” Moses said, “I will appeal to the Lord, and tomorrow the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh, his officials, and his people. But Pharaoh must not act deceptively again by refusing to let the people go and sacrifice to the Lord.” ³⁰ Then Moses left Pharaoh’s presence and appealed to the Lord. ³¹ The Lord did as Moses had said: He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, his officials, and his people; not one was left. ³² But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also and did not let the people go.

Flies

Shu, the god of air and supporter of the sky was next up for humiliation. Shu was often depicted in human form with an ostrich feather on his head, the hieroglyphic for his name. However, the air was totally commandeered by the God of Israel and his army of flies in the third plague.

In museums around the world, you can see many ancient Egyptian amulets in the shape of flies, which were considered protective against harm. Taylor Woodcock from the University of Toronto explains that these “so-called ‘homopoeic amulets’ were magical objects that relied on the image of a creature (or their parts) to protect or empower the wearer.” She adds, “Wearing a fly amulet was probably believed to protect the wearer from insect bites or ward off pesky flying creatures through apotropaic magic.”¹

Caution: Wearing such pagan artifacts can open a person, yes even today, to demon or demonic influences. As a Spirit born Christian know that you are protected by the power of the shed blood of JESUS; do not remove yourself from the protection of that security by dabbling in the forbidden.

Not only was God making a mockery of their magic, but the image of the fly was also adopted as a symbol of military prowess and has been found in the tombs of warriors. Fly amulets were given as awards for success in battle. But now the Egyptians were beginning to get a taste of how much mightier the God of Israel was than all the armies of Egypt when He released swarms of flies they could do nothing about.

The Fifth Plague: Death of Livestock

9 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him: This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. ² But if you refuse to let them go and keep holding them, ³ then the Lord’s hand will bring a severe plague against your livestock in the field—the horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks. ⁴ But the Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing of all that the Israelites own will die.” ⁵ And the Lord set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.” ⁶ The Lord did this the next day. All the Egyptian livestock died, but none among the Israelite livestock died. ⁷ Pharaoh sent messengers who saw that not a single one of the Israelite livestock was dead. But Pharaoh’s heart was hard, and he did not let the people go.

5. Livestock pestilence

Hathor was the Egyptian goddess of fertility, women, love, and the sky. The deity would usually be portrayed as a cow, a very important animal in the ancient world that could only be found in fertile areas where water was plentiful. Other gods were also made in the image of livestock, such as Amon who was portrayed as a ram, and Mnevis as a black bull. Hapi, also known as Apis, was also represented as a sacred bull, and Khnum often given a ram’s head. It is understood that livestock in the ancient world were extremely important.

By striking Egypt’s livestock in the fifth plague, it was clear that the God of Israel could deprive Egypt of one of the main sources of life in a direct assault on their gods.

The Sixth Plague: Boils

⁸ Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of furnace soot, and Moses is to throw it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. ⁹ It will become fine dust over the entire land of Egypt. It will become festering boils on people and animals throughout the land of Egypt.” ¹⁰ So they took furnace soot and stood before Pharaoh. Moses threw it toward heaven, and it became festering boils on people and animals. ¹¹ The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians as well as on all the Egyptians. ¹² But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had told Moses.

Boils – 6^th Plague

Next God proved His authority to affect not just the natural world around them, but their very lives. With the plague of boils, God showed His power to wound and to heal in a direct affront to the Egyptian gods of healing, such as Sekhmet and Isis.

Ancient Egyptians believed the goddess Isis could perform magic and heal the sick, but this was clearly beyond her scope. The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum describes Egyptian god Sekhmet as “a terrifying goddess,” who could avert plague and cure disease for those she considered friends. “She was the patron of physicians and healers,” and apparently “ancient Egyptians believed that Sekhmet had a cure for every problem.”² Not this one, I guess.

The Seventh Plague: Hail

¹³ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh. Tell him: This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. ¹⁴ For this time I am about to send all my plagues against you,^[h] your officials, and your people. Then you will know there is no one like me on the whole earth. ¹⁵ By now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague, and you would have been obliterated from the earth. ¹⁶ However, I have let you live for this purpose: to show you my power and to make my name known on the whole earth. ¹⁷ You are still acting arrogantly against^[i] my people by not letting them go. ¹⁸ Tomorrow at this time I will rain down the worst hail that has ever occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now. ¹⁹ Therefore give orders to bring your livestock and all that you have in the field into shelters. Every person and animal that is in the field and not brought inside will die when the hail falls on them.” ²⁰ Those among Pharaoh’s officials who feared the word of the Lord made their servants and livestock flee to shelters, ²¹ but those who didn’t take to heart the Lord’s word left their servants and livestock in the field.

²² Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven and let there be hail throughout the land of Egypt—on people and animals and every plant of the field in the land of Egypt.” ²³ So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail. Lightning struck the land, and the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt. ²⁴ The hail, with lightning flashing through it, was so severe that nothing like it had occurred in the land of Egypt since it had become a nation. ²⁵ Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the field, both people and animals. The hail beat down every plant of the field and shattered every tree in the field. ²⁶ The only place it didn’t hail was in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were.

²⁷ Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron. “I have sinned this time,” he said to them. “The Lord is the righteous one, and I and my people are the guilty ones. ²⁸ Make an appeal to the Lord. There has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don’t need to stay any longer.”

²⁹ Moses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to the Lord. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know the earth^[j] belongs to the Lord. ³⁰ But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear the Lord God.”

³¹ The flax and the barley were destroyed because the barley was ripe^[k] and the flax was budding, ³² but the wheat and the spelt were not destroyed since they are later crops.^[l]

³³ Moses left Pharaoh and the city, and spread out his hands to the Lord. Then the thunder and hail ceased, and rain no longer poured down on the land. ³⁴ When Pharaoh saw that the rain, hail, and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart, he, and his officials. ³⁵ So Pharaoh’s heart was hard, and he did not let the Israelites go, as the Lord had said through Moses.

7. Hail

By pelting the land of Egypt with a plague of catastrophic hail, God was assaulting the Egyptian gods of the atmosphere and weather, as well as the earth and all it contains. As this plague beat down on the land, the Egyptian sky goddess Nut, and storm god Seth, supposedly associated with strange and frightening events such as eclipses, thunderstorms, and earthquakes along with Shu, god of the air, couldn’t lift a finger to prevent the disaster.

8. Locusts

The eighth plague of locusts showed up the Egyptian god Bastet, a deity in the form of a cat who was supposed to be the protector of crops from rodents and vermin like locusts. Neither was Osiris god of agriculture, much help. Osiris was considered the ruler of death and life, and of sprouting vegetation, and legend had it that Osiris developed agriculture in Egypt. However, Osirius was a dead deity, being ruler of the dead, and this plague just went to show quite how dead and useless he was, along with Bastet.

The Eighth Plague: Locusts – Exodus 10:1-20:

10 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may do these miraculous signs of mine among them,^[m] 2 and so that you may tell^[n] your son and grandson how severely I dealt with the Egyptians and performed miraculous signs among them, and you will know that I am the Lord.”

³ So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may worship me. ⁴ But if you refuse to let my people go, then tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory. ⁵ They will cover the surface of the land so that no one will be able to see the land. They will eat the remainder left to you that escaped the hail; they will eat every tree you have growing in the fields. ⁶ They will fill your houses, all your officials’ houses, and the houses of all the Egyptians—something your fathers and grandfathers never saw since the time they occupied the land until today.” Then he turned and left Pharaoh’s presence.

⁷ Pharaoh’s officials asked him, “How long must this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, so that they may worship the Lord their God. Don’t you realize yet that Egypt is devastated?”

⁸ So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. “Go, worship the Lord your God,” Pharaoh said. “But exactly who will be going?”

⁹ Moses replied, “We will go with our young and with our old; we will go with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds because we must hold the Lord’s festival.”

¹⁰ He said to them, “The Lord would have to be with you if I would ever let you and your families go! Look out—you’re heading for trouble. ¹¹ No, go—just able-bodied men—worship the Lord, since that’s what you want.” And they were driven from Pharaoh’s presence.

¹² The Lord then said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, and the locusts will come up over it and eat every plant in the land, everything that the hail left.” ¹³ So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and through the night. By morning, the east wind had brought in the locusts. ¹⁴ The locusts went up over the entire land of Egypt and settled on the whole territory of Egypt. Never before had there been such a large number of locusts, and there never will be again. ¹⁵ They covered the surface of the whole land so that the land was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green was left on the trees or the plants in the field throughout the land of Egypt.

¹⁶ Pharaoh urgently sent for Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you. ¹⁷ Please forgive my sin once more and make an appeal to the Lord your God, so that he will just take this death away from me.” ¹⁸ Moses left Pharaoh’s presence and appealed to the Lord. ¹⁹ Then the Lord changed the wind to a strong west^[o] wind, and it carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the territory of Egypt. ²⁰ But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the Israelites go.

The Ninth Plague: Darkness – Exodus 10:21-29:

²¹ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, and there will be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.” ²² So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days. ²³ One person could not see another, and for three days they did not move from where they were. Yet all the Israelites had light where they lived.

²⁴ Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship the Lord. Even your families may go with you; only your flocks and herds must stay behind.”

²⁵ Moses responded, “You must also let us have^[p] sacrifices and burnt offerings to prepare for the Lord our God. ²⁶ Even our livestock must go with us; not a hoof will be left behind because we will take some of them to worship the Lord our God. We will not know what we will use to worship the Lord until we get there.”

²⁷ But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was unwilling to let them go. ²⁸ Pharaoh said to him, “Leave me! Make sure you never see my face again, for on the day you see my face, you will die.”

²⁹ “As you have said,” Moses replied, “I will never see your face again.”

Nineth - 9^th Plague Darkness

By bringing the plague of darkness, God demonstrated His sovereignty over Egypt’s most powerful gods. The sun god, Ra, had the head of a falcon and the body of a human. This deity was often considered to be the first king, ruling initially over humans and gods on earth and then later in the heavens, according to the British Museum.³ Ancient Egyptians thought Ra had power to control the sky and the weather, as well as life and death. There were also other sun gods such as Aton, depicted simply as a circular yellow sun with rays emitting from the disk that had human hands. Horus was another, portrayed as a falcon with his right eye as the sun or morning star, representing power and quintessence.

So much for their power. They all had to sit in silence and defeat, their hubris (excessive pride, overconfidence) snuffed out with the sun they supposedly controlled.

The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn

11 The Lord said^[q] to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here. When he lets you go,^[r] he will drive you out of here. ² Now announce to the people that both men and women should ask their neighbors for silver and gold items.” ³ The Lord gave^[s] the people favor with the Egyptians. In addition, Moses himself was very highly regarded^[t] in the land of Egypt by^[u] Pharaoh’s officials and the people.

⁴ So Moses said, “This is what the Lord says: About midnight I will go throughout Egypt, ⁵ and every firstborn male in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the servant girl who is at the grindstones, as well as every firstborn of the livestock. ⁶ Then there will be a great cry of anguish through all the land of Egypt such as never was before or ever will be again. ⁷ But against all the Israelites, whether people or animals, not even a dog will snarl,^[v] so that you may know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. ⁸ All these officials of yours will come down to me and bow before me, saying: Get out, you and all the people who follow you.^[w] After that, I will get out.” And he went out from Pharaoh’s presence fiercely angry.

⁹ The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.” ¹⁰ Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his land.

10. Death of firstborn children – Exodus 11:1-10:

11:1 The Lord said^[a] to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here. When he lets you go,^[b] he will drive you out of here. ² Now announce to the people that both men and women should ask their neighbors for silver and gold items.” ³ The Lord gave^[c] the people favor with the Egyptians. In addition, Moses himself was very highly regarded^[d] in the land of Egypt by^[e] Pharaoh’s officials and the people.

⁴ So Moses said, “This is what the Lord says: About midnight I will go throughout Egypt, ⁵ and every firstborn male in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the servant girl who is at the grindstones, as well as every firstborn of the livestock. ⁶ Then there will be a great cry of anguish through all the land of Egypt such as never was before or ever will be again. ⁷ But against all the Israelites, whether people or animals, not even a dog will snarl,^[f] so that you may know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. ⁸ All these officials of yours will come down to me and bow before me, saying: Get out, you and all the people who follow you.^[g] After that, I will get out.” And he went out from Pharaoh’s presence fiercely angry.

⁹ The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.” ¹⁰ Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his land.

 

And last but not least was the direct repayment for Pharaoh’s genocidal massacre of Hebrew baby boys. This tenth plague was a direct strike against the Pharaoh himself and his line. Egyptian pharaohs were considered deities, and descendants of the gods, but none could withstand God’s destroying angel. In the book of the dead, the Pharaoh says “I am decreed to be the Heir, the Lord of the Earth of Geb. I have union with women. Geb hath refreshed me, and he hath caused me to ascend his throne.”⁴ But all who had foolishly put their faith in Pharaoh saw that their leader had no supernatural powers at all. The God of Israel proves once and for all that none of the gods of Egypt, no human pretenders or made-up idols are able to resist His mighty power. He is the one true Lord of life, who holds the keys of death and hades.

And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son, and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me.” If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’” (Exodus 4:21-23)

And so, God did exactly as He said--- Fear of God keeps us safe, whereas foolish presumption based on doubting God’s word puts us in severe danger. Pharaoh lost his beloved firstborn son, and his armies were drowned in the sea, just as he had drowned Israel’s sons. God is not mocked.

Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you too will be cut off. (Romans 11:22)

Instructions for Passover

12 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, ² “This month is to be the beginning of months for you; it is the first month of your year. ³ Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they must each select an animal of the flock according to their fathers’ families, one animal per family. ⁴ If the household is too small for a whole animal, that person and the neighbor nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each will eat. ⁵ You must have an unblemished animal, a year-old male; you may take it from either the sheep or the goats. ⁶ You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight. ⁷ They must take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses where they eat them. ⁸ They are to eat the meat that night; they should eat it, roasted over the fire along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. ⁹ Do not eat any of it raw or cooked in boiling^[x] water, but only roasted over fire—its head as well as its legs and inner organs. ¹⁰ You must not leave any of it until morning; any part of it left until morning you must burn. ¹¹ Here is how you must eat it: You must be dressed for travel,^[y] your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in a hurry; it is the Lord’s Passover.

¹² “I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and strike every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, both people and animals. I am the Lord; I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. ¹³ The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a distinguishing mark for you; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will be among you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ “This day is to be a memorial for you, and you must celebrate it as a festival to the Lord. You are to celebrate it throughout your generations as a permanent statute. ¹⁵ You must eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day you must remove yeast from your houses. Whoever eats what is leavened from the first day through the seventh day must be cut off from Israel. ¹⁶ You are to hold a sacred assembly on the first day and another sacred assembly on the seventh day. No work may be done on those days except for preparing what people need to eat—you may do only that.

¹⁷ “You are to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread because on this very day I brought your military divisions out of the land of Egypt. You must observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent statute. ¹⁸ You are to eat unleavened bread in the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day of the month until the evening of the twenty-first day. ¹⁹ Yeast must not be found in your houses for seven days. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a resident alien or native of the land, must be cut off from the community of Israel. ²⁰ Do not eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”^[z]

²¹ Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go, select an animal from the flock according to your families, and slaughter the Passover animal. ²² Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and brush the lintel and the two doorposts with some of the blood in the basin. None of you may go out the door of his house until morning. ²³ When the Lord passes through to strike Egypt and sees the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, he will pass over the door and not let the destroyer enter your houses to strike you.

²⁴ “Keep this command permanently as a statute for you and your descendants. ²⁵ When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, you are to observe this ceremony. ²⁶ When your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ ²⁷ you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he struck the Egyptians, and he spared our homes.’” So, the people knelt low and worshiped. ²⁸ Then the Israelites went and did this; they did just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

The Exodus

²⁹ Now at midnight the Lord struck every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and every firstborn of the livestock. ³⁰ During the night Pharaoh got up, he along with all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud wailing throughout Egypt because there wasn’t a house without someone dead. ³¹ He summoned Moses and Aaron during the night and said, “Get out immediately from among my people, both you and the Israelites, and go, worship the Lord as you have said. ³² Take even your flocks and your herds as you asked and leave, and also bless me.”

³³ Now the Egyptians pressured the people in order to send them quickly out of the country, for they said, “We’re all going to die!” ³⁴ So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls wrapped up in their clothes on their shoulders.

³⁵ The Israelites acted on Moses’s word and asked the Egyptians for silver and gold items and for clothing. ³⁶ And the Lord gave the people such favor with the Egyptians that they gave them what they requested. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.

³⁷ The Israelites traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand able-bodied men on foot, besides their families. ³⁸ A mixed crowd also went up with them, along with a huge number of livestock, both flocks and herds. ³⁹ The people baked the dough they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves, since it had no yeast; for when they were driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared provisions for themselves.

⁴⁰ The time that the Israelites lived in Egypt^[aa] was 430 years. ⁴¹ At the end of 430 years, on that same day, all the Lord’s military divisions went out from the land of Egypt. ⁴² It was a night of vigil in honor of the Lord, because he would bring them out of the land of Egypt. This same night is in honor of the Lord, a night vigil for all the Israelites throughout their generations.

Passover Instruction

⁴³ The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner may eat it. ⁴⁴ But any slave a man has purchased may eat it, after you have circumcised him. ⁴⁵ A temporary resident or hired worker may not eat the Passover. ⁴⁶ It is to be eaten in one house. You may not take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of its bones. ⁴⁷ The whole community of Israel must celebrate^[ab] it. ⁴⁸ If an alien resides among you and wants to observe the Lord’s Passover, every male in his household must be circumcised, and then he may participate;^[ac] he will become like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it. ⁴⁹ The same law will apply to both the native and the alien who resides among you.”

⁵⁰ Then all the Israelites did this; they did just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron. ⁵¹ On that same day the Lord brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt according to their military divisions.

Even today, GOD and JESUS reveal their power to deliver us from slavery of bondage, when we place our faith and trust in JESUS for release from slavery to any power that enslaves us. We are all on a journey. Never think that you are beyond bondage and slavery!

GOD and JESUS still deliver GOD’S Children from bondage!!!

Blessings!!!

 

 

Bible Study - Moses - On the Job Training - Various - March 22, 2026

 

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Bible Study – Moses - On the Job Training (2) – March 22, 2026

In last week’s study, we learned that GOD revealed HIMSELF to Moses of all things through what appeared like a burning bush that was not consumed. GOD still reveals HIMSELF in many different ways to get us to pause and reflect but ultimately through HIS only SON, JESUS.

At the right time, GOD would send HIS only SON, JESUS, to earth to live a 100% human life. JESUS willingly came to earth, willing to be obedient to GOD, HIS FATHER, to fulfill the Law, and establish eternally GOD’S redemptive plan for all people, who place their faith in JESUS.

CHRIST in us, is the hope of Glory. Colossians 1:27:

God wanted to make known among the Gentiles the glorious wealth of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Let’s go back to Moses and his journey of discovering GOD and GOD revealing Himself to Moses.

It was a learning experience for Moses and so is our journey with GOD through faith in JESUS a learning experience. Why?

Since the Passion of JESUS, all who place their faith in JESUS have the Holy Spirit living within him or her.

We read in Romans 8:11:

And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then he who raised Christ from the dead will also bring your mortal bodies to life through his Spirit who lives in you. Romans 8:11.

The indwelling Holy Spirit is the guarantee and assurance for all who place their faith in JESUS and HIS Passion, of eternal life.

As Moses walked with GOD, he discovered various attributes and characteristics of GOD. As “Spirit born” Christians, we have the indwelling Holy Spirit to be our assurance of salvation, teacher, revealer of truth, sustainer, guide, convicts us when we sin, and so much more as the “Born Again” person develops, grows, and matures Spiritually.

In last week’s study, we considered Genesis 3:13-15: The calling of Moses by GOD to be HIS representative to Pharoah.

¹³ Then Moses asked God, “If I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what should I tell them?”

Great question?

¹⁴ God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.^[e] This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you.” ¹⁵ God also said to Moses, “Say this to the Israelites: The Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever; this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.

I love the name of GOD, “I AM.” GOD has always existed. We humans like to think of a beginning and an end. GOD is eternal and so will all who place their faith in JESUS.

Notice: GOD said, “The Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob” all in the present tense and not the past tense.

Notice in Mark 12 ²⁴ Jesus spoke to them, “Isn’t this the reason why you’re mistaken: you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God? ²⁵ For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven. ²⁶ And as for the dead being raised—haven’t you read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God said to him: I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?^[i] 27 He is not the God of the dead but of the living. You are badly mistaken.”

[Mark 12:26:

And as for the dead being raised—haven’t you read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God said to him: I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?] 

Since the Passion of JESUS and Pentecost, all who ask GOD to forgive them for their sins and ask JESUS to come into their hearts, they are “Born Again” Spiritually by the union of The Holy Spirit (The Divine Sperm) and the human spirit (I consider as the egg). When Spiritual conception takes place, through faith in JESUS, that person is “born again” eternally, never to be unborn. He or she is eternally GOD’S Child and can approach GOD 24/7 and in essence, call HIM Daddy.

Satan wants to rob the person of faith of that intimacy with GOD while he or she continues life upon earth.

The indwelling Holy Spirit within a Spirit born person is the difference between the New Testament and the Old Testament.

Since the Passion of JESUS, HIS resurrection from the dead by GOD, and the coming of THE HOLY SPIRIT at Pentecost, all who place their faith in JESUS have 24/7 access to GOD through faith in JESUS. And those who seek salvation, through faith in JESUS, GOD is available 24/7.

Scripture reveals in 1 Corinthians 6:19:

Don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit WHO is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own ------

²⁰ for you were bought at a price. So glorify God with your body.^[e]

When a person places his or her faith in JESUS his/her ownership changes because JESUS redeems him/her from eternity in Hell, to eternity in Heaven. Now, that is Good News for all who have placed their faith in JESUS.

Our salvation cost the life of JESUS, which HE freely gave to pay the sin debt in full, for all who place their faith in HIM. The good news is that JESUS willingly gave HIS sinless life that all who place their faith in HIM will have eternal life and eternally be in the Family of GOD.

But to carry the willingness of JESUS to give HIS sinless for salvation, if you were the only person in all the world or time to accept JESUS as your Savior, JESUS would have given HIS sinless life just for you to be born again, have eternal life and live eternally with GOD, THE FATHER, GOD, THE SON and GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT.

Once, a person has been born again, Spiritually, that persons changes as revealed in Philippians 3:20

Our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly wait for a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.

As Moses was getting to know GOD, GOD was using him to minister to his father-in-law, Jethro.

Jethro is described in the Bible as “the priest of Midian,”¹ indicating an idolatrous background. Some traditions say he worshiped every deity of his time in a quest for truth, eventually abandoning them all for belief in the One G‑d.² Others interpret his title as a sign of political leadership in Midian.³

Stay tuned, keep in mind that Moses knew the ONE TRUE GOD. Will GOD open the Spiritual eyes of Jethro? Jethro seemed to worship many gods to make sure he did not omit one. Would Jethro’s relationship with Moses open his Spiritual eyes? As we journey, we discover.

Exodus 3:7-22:

⁷ Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. I know about their sufferings, ⁸ and I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the territory of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. ⁹ So because the Israelites’ cry for help has come to me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them, ¹⁰ therefore, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh so that you may lead my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

¹¹ But Moses asked God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

Moses response reveals his heart toward GOD. Moses needed the strength and presence of GOD to accomplish what GOD was calling him to do. Our insufficiency is GOD’S opportunity to reveal HIMSELF and HIS sufficiency, as we obediently follow HIM. However, we know that we can get too big for our own britches and take matters into our own hands. GOD uses these times to teach us, as well.

One may think, “well GOD was speaking directly to Moses.” Yes, and GOD speaks to us today through the Holy Spirit. Both to call us to repent of our sins and to ask JESUS to forgive us for all of our sins and for JESUS to come into our hearts. This is necessary for a person to be “born again” Spiritually and become the eternal Son or Daughter of GOD.

GOD responded to Moses’ need for GOD’S help to accomplish what GOD had called him to do.

¹² He answered, “I will certainly be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I am the one who sent you: when you bring the people out of Egypt, you will all worship^[d] God at this mountain.”

¹³ Then Moses asked God, “If I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what should I tell them?”

¹⁴ God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.^[e] This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you.” ¹⁵ God also said to Moses, “Say this to the Israelites: The Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever; this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.

¹⁶ “Go and assemble the elders of Israel and say to them: The Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I have paid close attention to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt. ¹⁷ And I have promised you that I will bring you up from the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁸ They will listen to what you say. Then you, along with the elders of Israel, must go to the king of Egypt and say to him: The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.

¹⁹ “However, I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go, even under force from a strong hand. ²⁰ But when I stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my miracles that I will perform in it, after that, he will let you go. ²¹ And I will give these people such favor with the Egyptians that when you go, you will not go empty-handed. ²² Each woman will ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry, and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So, you will plunder the Egyptians.”

GOD already knew the heart of Pharaoh would resist, after all he would be losing free labor. Plus, as we witness what unfolds, we see the battle of powers – Pharaoh versus The GOD of the Israelites, the same GOD, JESUS reveals to us today, YHWH or Yahweh.

Exodus 4:1-31:

4 Moses answered, “What if they won’t believe me and will not obey me but say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”

² The Lord asked him, “What is that in your hand?”

“A staff,” he replied.

³ “Throw it on the ground,” he said. So, Moses threw it on the ground, it became a snake, and he ran from it. ⁴ The Lord told Moses, “Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail.” So, he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand. ⁵ “This will take place,” he continued, “so that they will believe that the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

(I am told by those who manage snakes, you do not grab a snake by its tail.)

⁶ In addition the Lord said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was diseased, resembling snow.^[a] 7 “Put your hand back inside your cloak,” he said. So, he put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, it had again become like the rest of his skin. ⁸ “If they will not believe you and will not respond to the evidence of the first sign, they may believe the evidence of the second sign. ⁹ And if they don’t believe even these two signs or listen to what you say, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the Nile will become blood on the ground.”

¹⁰ But Moses replied to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent—either in the past or recently or since you have been speaking to your servant—because my mouth and my tongue are sluggish.”^[b]

¹¹ The Lord said to him, “Who placed a mouth on humans? Who makes a person mute or deaf, seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? ¹² Now go! I will help you speak^[c] and I will teach you what to say.”

¹³ Moses said, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”^[d]

¹⁴ Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses, and he said, “Isn’t Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, he is on his way now to meet you. He will rejoice when he sees you. ¹⁵ You will speak with him and tell him what to say. I will help both you and him to speak^[e] and will teach you both what to do. ¹⁶ He will speak to the people for you. He will serve as a mouth for you, and you will serve as God to him. ¹⁷ And take this staff in your hand that you will perform the signs with.”

Moses’s Return to Egypt

¹⁸ Then Moses went back to his father-in-law, Jethro, and said to him, “Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still living.”

Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

¹⁹ Now in Midian the Lord told Moses, “Return to Egypt, for all the men who wanted to kill you are dead.” ²⁰ So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took God’s staff in his hand.

²¹ The Lord instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, make sure you do before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart^[f] so that he won’t let the people go. ²² And you will say to Pharaoh: This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son. ²³ I told you: Let my son go so that he may worship me, but you refused to let him go. Look, I am about to kill your firstborn son!”

GOD gave a stern message for Moses to deliver to the Egyptian Pharaoh – “²³ I told you: Let my son (Israel) go so that he may worship me (GOD), but you refused to let him go. Look, I am about to kill your firstborn son!”

GOD referred to the Israelite nation as “my son” and Moses would deliver that message to Pharaoh.

Moses house had to be in order when he delivered GOD’S message and when we, who proclaim the message of GOD, must also make sure our Spiritual life is in order, as well.

It seems that GOD waited to give Moses time to make sure his household was living according to the Law before Moses approached Pharaoh to deliver the Israelites from Egyptian slavery.

Keep in mind that Satan was just as active then, as he is today.

So, GOD had to get the attention of Moses before the deliverance of the Israelites could go forward.

When we do not confess our sins, GOD has HIS ways to get our attention or the attention of, in this case, Moses wife, Zipporah. In fact, her action saved Moses’ life---

Keep in mind at that period the Israelites were under the Law. Let’s read on -----

²⁴ On the trip, at an overnight campsite, it happened that the Lord confronted him (Moses) and intended to put him to death. ²⁵ So Zipporah took a flint, cut off her son’s foreskin, threw it at Moses’s feet, and said, “You are a bridegroom of blood to me!” ²⁶ So he let him alone. At that time, she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” referring to the circumcision.

Moses was GOD’S chosen to deliver the Israelites from bondage, but first Moses had to be delivered from violating the Law regarding his own son. Zipporah took the action that Moses could not take and did not take. Once, Zipporah did what Moses should have done, did that reveal the power of GOD to her and did her action reveal to her that the GOD of the Israelites was the ONE TRUE GOD? Did Zipporah’s faith need to be strengthened? Speculation.

It is clear GOD wanted all in Moses household to be a family of faith to the ONE TRUE GOD before going on a mission trip to free the Israelites from bondage.

This is true for all of us who claim to be “Born Again” to have no unconfessed sin in our lives when serving our LORD.

The Reunion of Moses and Aaron ²⁷ Now the Lord had said to Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So, he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him. ²⁸ Moses told Aaron everything the Lord had sent him to say, and about all the signs he had commanded him to do. ²⁹ Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites. ³⁰ Aaron repeated everything the Lord had said to Moses and performed the signs before the people. ³¹ The people believed, and when they heard that the Lord had paid attention to them and that he had seen their misery, they knelt low and worshiped.

Discovering truth leads us to worship!!!

Blessings!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18 Moses’s father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about everything that God had done for Moses and for God’s people Israel when the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt.

² Now Jethro, Moses’s father-in-law, had taken in Zipporah, Moses’s wife, after he had sent her back, ³ along with her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom^[a] (because Moses had said, “I have been a resident alien in a foreign land”) ⁴ and the other Eliezer (because he had said, “The God of my father was my helper and rescued me from Pharaoh’s sword”).^[b]

⁵ Moses’s father-in-law, Jethro, along with Moses’s wife and sons, came to him in the wilderness where he was camped at the mountain of God. ⁶ He sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.”

⁷ So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and then kissed him. They asked each other how they had been^[c] and went into the tent. ⁸ Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships that confronted them on the way, and how the Lord rescued them.

⁹ Jethro rejoiced over all the good things the Lord had done for Israel when he rescued them from the power of the Egyptians. ¹⁰ “Blessed be the Lord,” Jethro exclaimed, “who rescued you from the power of Egypt and from the power of Pharaoh. He has rescued the people from under the power of Egypt! ¹¹ Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, because he did wonders when the Egyptians acted arrogantly against Israel.”^[d]

¹² Then Jethro, Moses’s father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses’s father-in-law in God’s presence.

Jethro was a priest who saw the GOD of the Israelites as THE ONE TRUE GOD, YHWH, or Yahweh.

Blessings!!!