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7 Exodus Study guide
While in the land of Midian, Moses married, Zipporah the daughter of a priest named Jethro.
Ten plagues are punishment for not heeding God’s requests
God called himself the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when he appeared to Moses in the
burning bush.
The blood of the Passover Lamb on to the door is a type for Christ
Israel’s sacrifices Animals Egyptians worshiped as gods
The Passover lamb is a type of Christ because the blood of the lamb saved the Israelites from
immediate death and the blood of Jesus saves us from eternal death.
God sent a strong wind to clear a path through the sea.
The three requirements for the Passover were the following: must sacrifice an
unblemished lamb, must put the blood of the lamb on the doorpost,
and must eat the lamb as part of the Passover meal.
What does the Hebrew word “manna” mean in English? What is it
The Ten Commandments are also called the decalogue, which means ten words.
The first three commandments concern our relationship with God
The next seven commandments concern our relationship with each other
Passover is seven days long
How is the manna that God rained down on the Israelites a type for the Eucharist? Manna gave
the people physical life in the desert and Jesus the bread of life gives us eternal life in heaven
Pharaoh Refused Moses’ requests
Why did Pharaoh want to kill the Hebrew boys while letting the girls live? So that the Israelite girls
would have to marry the Egyptians and the land would be returned to the Egyptians.
Lamb and unleavened bread are the Passover food
Why does God typically select people like Moses, who appear to be weak, to be his messengers
and workers? So that people will understand that it is God who is working and not the person
with the message (like Moses)
Moses was on the Mountain for 40 days
What does it mean to say the Israelites are chosen by God as a priestly nation? God would use
them as models of behavior and relationships for the rest of the world.
At first, why was Pharaoh unimpressed with the signs that Moses performed? His magicians
could perform similar signs
I Am Who I Am is God
Manna is a type for the Eucharist
Jethro’s daughter is Zipporah
Moses rescinded his allegiance to Pharaoh the day he killed the slave master.
Pharaoh did not understand that Israel was the firstborn of all the nations.
Prophets are usually reluctant to do God’s will because it often entails suffering
God kept the Israelites safe by a pillar of cloud in the day and a pillar of fire at night
God told Moses to take Aaron to be his spokesman.
The plagues are judgments on Egyptian gods.
Pharaoh made the Israelites slaves.
The last plague was the killing of the firstborn male children of Egypt.
God fed the Israelites in the desert by providing them with manna to eat.
Moses received the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai, which is the same mountain where God
revealed his sacred name to Moses from the burning bush.
The people of Israel gave up on Moses before he returned from the Mountain of God forty days
later