Today we begin Exodus Chapter 6. For the Complete Jewish Version, click here. For the King James Version, click here. “God spoke to Moshe; he said to him, “I am Adonai.   I appeared to Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov as El Shaddai, although I did not make myself known to them by my name, Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh.“-Exodus 6:2-The Complete Jewish Bible […]

Pharaoh said, “Lazy, that’s what you are—lazy! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’ Now get to work. You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks.”-Exodus 5:17-18 Have you ever been consumed by a fit of raging jealousy and hate? It sucks, doesn’t it? […]

Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Why, Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Is this why you sent me? Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and you have not rescued your people at all.”-Exodus 5:22-23 Have you ever felt disheartened while in the midst […]

Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.’”-Exodus 5:1 Just as much confusion has arisen due to God’s personal name being totally erased from our Bibles, there is also much perplexity […]

Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.’”-Exodus 5:1 Today I’d like to introduce a new Hebrew word that we’re going to encounter quite frequently as we move further into the […]