Today we begin Exodus Chapter 5. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James Version, click here. The showdown between Moses and Pharaoh is I believe a perfect opportunity to illustrate the importance of knowing (and using) God’s formal name. Practically every major Bible translation I’ve come across has deleted God’s personal […]

“But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it. ‘Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,’ she said.”-Exodus 4:25 This whole Tzipporah circumcision incident is a good opportunity to touch on an important theological principle that is actually all wrapped up in one singular Hebrew word. That […]

At a lodging-place on the way, Yahweh met Moshe and would have killed him, had not Tzipporah taken a flintstone and cut off the foreskin of her son. She threw it at his feet, saying, “What a bloody bridegroom you are for me!”  But then, God let Moshe be. She added, “A bloody bridegroom because of the […]

YHVH said to Moshe, “When you get back to Egypt, make sure that you do before Pharaoh every one of the wonders I have enabled you to do. Nevertheless, I am going to make him hardhearted, and he will refuse to let the people go.”-Exodus 4:21 What are we to make of God telling Moses […]

You will speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and his, teaching you both what to do. -Exodus 4:15 God tells Moses He is going to “EHYEH” or “be there” with him and his brother Aaron. This is interesting because in this pre-New Testament era, […]