The Strand Study Bible

EXODUS

Author: Moses (Exo 34:27, 28 & Mk 7:10 & 12:26) Theme: Birth of a Nation (Israel) Book’s Main Character : Moses (Moses is referred to 101 times in the New Testament)

About the Author : Moses, whose name means, “to draw out,” was born into slavery in Egypt c. 1568 BC. He was born approximately sixty-four years after Joseph’s death (1632 BC). Moses’ first forty years were spent training in Pharaoh’s Court. His second forty years were spent tending sheep in the wilderness of Midian. And his third and last forty years were spent teaching God’s people His ways on the way to Canaan (called the Promised Land). Moses died before the children of Israel entered Canaan (1448 BC - Deut 34:5). About the Book : The word “exodus” means “to exit or depart,” and the book of Exodus records the departure of the nation of Israel from Egypt and Egyptian bondage. After the death of Joseph, Israel’s prestige gradually disappeared. By the time Moses was born (64 years after Joseph’s death), Israel had become completely enslaved to Egypt. At the age of forty, Moses fled Egypt and settled in the land of Midian. Forty years later, at the age of eighty, Moses returned to Egypt and led his people out of bondage. The book of Exodus covers 146 years (from 1632-1486 BC). The first twelve chapters of Exodus cover 145 years (from 1632-1487 BC) and mark three major events: Birth of Moses (Exo 2), Call of Moses (Exo 3), The Exodus (Exo 12). The remaining 28 chapters of Exodus (13-40) cover little less than one year (1486 BC). During that one-year period, Israel relocated often, finally ending up in the wilderness of Sinai where Moses received the law and instructions for the building of the Tabernacle. Notes of Interest: 1. Exodus is quoted in the NT 50 times. 2. Prophecies are referred to 37 times in Exodus . 3. Prophecies concerning CHRIST are referred to 1 of those 37 times. 4. CHRIST appeared in a preincarnate personal form 3 different times in Exodus (Exo 3:2, 13:21, 14:19). 5. There are 8 inset maps used in the book of Exodus . They are numbered chronologically (#44-51). Outline of Exodus : 1. The Egyptian Bondage (Exo 1-11) 2. The Exodus (Exo 12-19) 3. The Law (Exo 20-24) 4. The Tabernacle (Exo 25-40)

1. Gen 46:8-27 2. Gen 50:26 & Acts 7:15 3. See - Gen 12:2 & 17:2,6 & 28:3-4 & 35:11 & 46:3 4. Acts 7:17

Exodus 1 Jacob’s twelve sons

Historical Note - Grecian history began c. 1600 BC with the Old Kingdom Period in which the first known Grecian people called the Minoans are said to have existed. Historical Note - Chinese written history began be- tween 1600-1500 BC in which the first known Chinese people from the Shang dynasty are said to have tra- ditionally existed. However, the orthodox chronology and that of the Bamboo Annals (discovered AD 281) coincide only from the year 841 BC, which is the first completely reliable date in Chinese history. S.C. Adams in Synchronological Chart of Universal History notes: The Chinese annals claim for their Empire a fabulous an- tiquity of from eighty to one hundred thousand years BC, with early emperors whose reigns were equally extravagant. Noah and his descendants (presumably) having settled in China and founded the Empire, the cause of this extravagant claim is probably found in their traditions, which doubt- less connected Noah with Lamech, Methuselah, Jared, etc., back to Adam. The institutions and character attributed to Fohi, the reputed founder and first soverign of the High dy- nasty, is easily reconcilable with the Noah of Genesis. In their traditions the Chinese historians state that Fohi was a divinely begotten personage; that he invented a symbolical mode of writing, composed a code of laws, invented music and dress-making, and the custom of sacrificing different kinds of animals, etc. The history of China is meager and uncertain. It was not unusual for an emperor to cause every record of the past to be destroyed, that the Empire might appear to have originated with himself. From their own re- cords we know but little of the history of China. 1 1 Adams, S.C., Synchronological Chart of Universal History , Chi- na, Master Books, 2007. Print.

1 Now 1 these are the names of the chil- dren of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. The death of Joseph (S/A - Gen 50:22-26) Date - 1632 BC/AM 2368 6 And 2 Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. Israel multiples into a nation Date - c. 1625 BC/AM 2375 7 3 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and 4 multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. PF READ NEXT - Job 1-42 The death of Levi - c. 1609 BC

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