Even if the eve of the Passover fell on a Sabbath, the Passover lamb was killed in the manner described above, the blood was sprinkled on the altar, the entrails removed and cleansed, and the fat offered on the altar; for these four ceremonies in the case of the Passover lamb, and these alone, were exempt from the …

That night, God sent the angel of death to kill the firstborn sons of the Egyptians. God told Moses to order the Israelite families to sacrifice a lamb and smear the blood on the door of their houses. In this way the angel would know to ‘pass over’ the houses of the Israelites.

One baby, named Moses (more on him here), is saved and adopted by Pharaoh’s own daughter. When Moses grows up, he’s told by God to command Pharaoh to let the Jews go. Pharaoh says no, and God sets out to convince him by way of the Ten Plagues.

God ordered Moses to stretch out his staff over the Red Sea, and the sea parted. This allowed the Israelites to escape across the sea, and away from Egypt unharmed.

According to the religious narrative of the Hebrew Bible, the Israelites’ origin is traced back to the biblical patriarchs and matriarchs Abraham and his wife Sarah, through their son Isaac and his wife Rebecca, and their son Jacob (who was later called Israel, whence they derive their name) with his wives Leah and …

Egyptian army

Exodus, the liberation of the people of Israel from slavery in Egypt in the 13th century bce, under the leadership of Moses; also, the Old Testament book of the same name. The Hebrew title of the work is Shemot (Names).

In the wilderness, God revealed himself to the Israelites by graciously providing for them or by punishing them for their sins.

This was considered a grave sin by God. Corresponding to the 40 days that the spies toured the land, God decreed that the Israelites would wander in the wilderness for 40 years as a result of their unwillingness to take the land.

God put them there because he wanted to defeat the devil, glorify himself, and increase their faith! pursue them, so that I will gain glory for myself over Pharaoh and all his army; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.

Meat. The Israelites usually ate meat from domesticated goats and sheep. Goat’s meat was the most common. Fat-tailed sheep were the predominant variety of sheep in ancient Israel, but, as sheep were valued more than goats, they were eaten less often.

I quote from Numbers, Chapter 11, verses 31 through 33 (King James Version): And there went forth a wind from the Lord and brought quails from the sea and let them fall by the camp…and they gathered the quails…and while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed…the Lord smote the people….

It is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Mara is “bitter”, which carries the implication “strength”. Biblical: Naomi, mother-in-law of Ruth, claimed the name Mara as an expression of grief after the deaths of her husband and sons.

After the Amalekites attacked Israel at Rephidim, Joshua gathered men for the army and led the troops in battle while Moses stood on a nearby hill. Whenever Moses raised his hands, Israel was victorious, but when he lowered them Amalek prevailed (Exod 17.8-13).

The pillars of cloud and fire are first mentioned in chapter 13 of the Book of Exodus, shortly after Moses leads the Israelites out of their captivity in Egypt. The narrative states that the pillar of cloud went ahead of them by day to guide their way, and the pillar of fire by night, to give them light.

It is closely connected to the symbolism of the TREE; it also represents stability, and a broken pillar represents death and mortality. In the Hebrew and Christian traditions, pillars of FIRE and smoke signify the presence of God, and God punished Lot by changing his wife into a pillar of salt.

Moses

After the Ten Plagues, Moses led the Exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt and across the Red Sea, after which they based themselves at biblical Mount Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments. After 40 years of wandering in the desert, Moses died within sight of the Promised Land on Mount Nebo.

Christianity. Christianity similarly uses forty to designate important time periods. Before his temptation, Jesus fasted “forty days and forty nights” in the Judean desert (Matthew 4:2, Mark 1:13, Luke 4:2). Forty days was the period from the resurrection of Jesus to the ascension of Jesus (Acts 1:3).

For example ” and they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water, and seventy date-palms…”….List of the Stations of the Exodus.

550 BC), the Nehushtan (Hebrew: נחשתן‎ Nəḥuštān [nəħuʃtaːn]) is the derogatory name given to the bronze serpent on a pole first described in the Book of Numbers which God told Moses to erect so that the Israelites who saw it would be protected from dying from the bites of the “fiery serpents”, which God had sent to …

Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, 10 of the original 12 Hebrew tribes, which, under the leadership of Joshua, took possession of Canaan, the Promised Land, after the death of Moses. They were named Asher, Dan, Ephraim, Gad, Issachar, Manasseh, Naphtali, Reuben, Simeon, and Zebulun—all sons or grandsons of Jacob.

A shortage of food later forced the Israelites to leave Canaan. Many Israelites moved to Egypt. The pharaoh enslaved the Israelites.

The land known as Canaan was situated in the territory of the southern Levant, which today encompasses Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and the southern portions of Syria and Lebanon.

The Torah emphasizes that the ‘arob (עָרוֹב “mixture” or “swarm”) only came against the Egyptians and did not affect the Israelites. Pharaoh asked Moses to remove this plague and promised to grant the Israelites their freedom.

According to the biblical book of Genesis, Abraham left Ur, in Mesopotamia, because God called him to found a new nation in an undesignated land that he later learned was Canaan. He obeyed unquestioningly the commands of God, from whom he received repeated promises and a covenant that his “seed” would inherit the land.