“The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, ‘When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.’  The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what […]

“Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.”-Exodus 1:6-7 Verse 7 in chapter one of Exodus represents the end of Israel’s Golden Age in Egypt. The ruling era of the Semite […]

Today we begin Chapter One of Exodus. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James Version, click here. “These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah; Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin; Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.  The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph […]

Before we begin reading the first chapter of Exodus, there are three stereotypes I think we all hold about ancient Egypt that I would like to correct and have tossed into the waste bins of our minds. First, as slaves, the Israelites were NOT normally treated in a brutal manner To our way of thinking, […]

From the last chapter of Genesis to the first chapter of Exodus, there is an approximate 350 year period that is not accounted for in the Scriptures. In order to understand what happened during this period, we need to go to extra-biblical sources. The purpose of this post is to fill in the blanks for […]