Exodus 11
1. What was Egypt's last plague? Answer
2. When did the last plague take place? Answer
Exodus 12
3. When was the Passover lamb selected? Answer
4. Why was lamb's blood to be smeared near the top and sides of a house's entrance door? Answer
5. How often are the Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread to be kept? Answer
6. Did every house in Egypt experience the wrath of the death angel? Answer
7. What was Pharaoh's response to the death angel? Answer
8. What made the death of the firstborn especially painful to Pharaoh? Answer
9. Did the Israelites leave Egypt empty-handed? Answer
10. Where did the Israelites meet in order to leave Egypt as a group? Answer
11. How long did the ten plagues last? Answer
Exodus 13
12. Why was the Promised Land referred to as "the land of milk and honey?" Answer
13. When did God first promise to give the Israelites the land of Canaan? Answer
14. What was to be "a token upon thine hand" and "for frontlets between thine eyes" (Exodus 13:16)? Answer
15. Why didn't God allow the Israelites to travel the most direct route to Canaan? Answer
16. Why were Joseph's bones taken out of Egypt? Answer
Exodus 14
17. How many chariots did Pharaoh use to pursue the Israelites? Answer
18. What did Moses use to part the sea? Answer
19. What or who protected the Israelites and guided them across the sea? Answer
20. When did the Lord begin to further trouble the Egyptians (Exodus 14:24)? Answer
21. How was the Egyptian army led to its demise? Answer
22. How many people crossed the sea and escaped Egyptian bondage? Answer
Exodus 15
23. Who are the dukes of Edom? Answer
24. Who was Miriam? Answer
25. What was used to make the waters of Marah drinkable? Answer
26. What did God promise if his people obeyed his commandments and statutes? Answer
Exodus 16
27. Why did the Israelites begin to complain and whine about Moses and Aaron? Answer
28. How did God solve the problem of feeding his people? Answer
29. Why was Israel only allowed to gather twice as much manna on the sixth day of the week? Answer
30. Why did God give manna that would go bad if kept for 24 hours? Answer
31. How long did God miraculously provide manna for his people? Answer
Exodus 17
32. How was water generated for the people? Answer
33. Who were the Amalekites? Answer
34. Who led the battle against the Amalekites? Answer
35. How did Moses help in winning the battle against the Amalekites? Answer
36. What was the ultimate penalty the Amalekites were to receive for attacking God's people? Answer
Exodus 18
37. When was Moses' wife and his two sons separated from him? Answer
38. Why did Jethro say, after the Israelites left Egypt, that he now knew that Israel's God was above all other gods? Answer
39. What suggestion did Jethro give Moses to ease his burden in leading the people? Answer
Exodus 19
40. When did the Israelites arrive at Mount Sinai? Answer
41. What events took place leading up to receiving the Ten Commandments? Answer
42. What happens Pentecost morning just prior to the giving of the Ten Commandments? Answer
Exodus 20
43. How did the Israelites learn about the commandments? Answer
44. How can the Ten Commandments be divided up? Answer
45. What is unique about the tenth commandment? Answer
46. What commandment did God reiterate after Moses came back up the mountain after the commandments were given? Answer
Exodus 11 Answers
1. The tenth, and most profound, of the plagues that hit Egypt was the death of the firstborn of both man and beast. This act, carried out by a single death angel in one night (Exodus 11:5, 12:12), led to every Egyptian home suffering the death of someone (verse 30)! The Israelites, however, who obeyed God and had lamb's blood over their door entrance were spared from this plague (Exodus 11:13).
2. Unlike all the other plagues, the Bible reveals exactly when the last plague took place. The Israelites, right after sunset that marked the beginning of Nisan 14 (Exodus 12:6 - 11), celebrated their first Passover. This corresponded, in 1445 B.C., to the evening of April 10. Then, just a few hours later around midnight (Exodus 11:4), the death angel came and carried out God's will.
Exodus 12 Answers
3. God, through Moses, commanded that each Israelite family, on Nisan 10, select a lamb to be used to observe the Passover (Exodus 12:1 - 5).
4. Lamb's blood was to be smeared at the entrance of a home as a sign for the death angel to "pass over" and not kill the firstborn at that location (Exodus 12:13).
5. Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread, like all of God's other Holy (Feast) Days, are to be kept forever.
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial: and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations: ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever . . .
And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread: for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever (Exodus 12:14, 17).
6. Every house which did not have lamb's blood over its door suffered loss by the death angel.
And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon: and all the firstborn of cattle.
. . . and there was a great cry in Egypt: for there was not a house where there was not one dead (Exodus 12:29 - 30).
7. Pharaoh, after the death angel fulfilled its task, sent a message to Moses and Aaron telling them that they and all the Israelites were free to leave Egypt (Exodus 12:31 - 32)!
[Why Did Israel Migrate to Egypt?]
8. Egyptian Pharaohs were worshipped as gods. The firstborn son, who would assume the throne after his father passed away, was therefore a "deity in waiting." The death of the firstborn was God's judgment against Egypt for setting up a system where a human being would be treated as a deity and allowed to rule by force and deception.
9. As the Egyptians buried their dead (see Numbers 33:4) the Israelites left their homes and asked them for clothing and articles of silver or gold (Exodus 12:35 - 36). The spoiling of Egypt, as payment for their years of slavery, was a fulfillment of prophecy (Genesis 15:14).
10. The children of Israel gathered at Rameses after spoiling the Egyptians (Exodus 12:37). It is from Rameses that they left Egypt.
11. The first plague likely took place in September or October of 1446 B.C. The tenth and last one began on Passover in 1445 at midnight (Exodus 12:29) as April 11 was beginning. If we assume a late September start to the plagues, they lasted roughly six and one-half months total.
Exodus 13 Answers
12. The Promised Land the Israelites were to inherit was known as the land of milk and honey since it was excellent territory for raising cattle which also abounded in grasses and flowers.
[Did Israel Rule All the Promised Land?]
13. Abram (Abraham), when he turned 75 in 1885 B.C., was commanded to leave Haran for Canaan. It was at this time that the Lord hinted at giving land to Abram.
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee (Genesis 12:1).
A short time later, as Abraham traveled to Shechem, the promise of land was further clarified.
And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him (Genesis 12:7).
14. God wanted his people not only to outwardly obey his commandments ("a token upon thine hand") but also to obey them from the heart ("for frontlets between thine eyes").
The command found in Exodus 13:16 is not to be taken literally (wearing copies of God's law on the hands and forehead) but symbolically as would be later clarified by Jesus (Matthew 23:1 - 5).
"The line of thought referred to merely expresses the idea that the Israelites were not only to retain the commands of God in their hearts, and to confess them with the mouth, but to fulfil them with the hand, or in act and deed, and thus to show themselves in their whole bearing as the guardians and observers of the law." (Keil and Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament).
15. The Bible reveals that the Lord chose not to use the direct route to Canaan, "Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt" (Exodus 13:17). God knew that the powerful war-loving Philistines would almost certainly fiercely attack his people and would fight to the last man to defend their territory!
16. Joseph, before his death, predicted that God would bring his people back to Canaan (Genesis 50:24). Based on this promise, he made the Israelites swear an oath that when they returned they would take his bones with them (verse 25).
Exodus 14 Answers
17. Pharaoh amassed a force of 600 of his best war chariots, along with his military captains, to pursue the Israelites. He also gathered any other chariot he could find in order to bring Israel back into bondage (Exodus 14:7).
Each of the 600 chariots were manned by two or three people. While the Bible is silent regarding the total number of men in Pharaoh's army who pursued the fleeing Israelites, the Jewish historian Josephus offers his estimate.
"Now when the Egyptians had overtaken the Hebrews, they prepared to fight them, and by their multitude they drove them into a narrow place: for the number that pursued after them was six hundred chariots, with fifty thousand horsemen, and two hundred thousand foot-men, all armed." (Antiquities of the Jews, Book 2, Chapter 15, Section 3).
18. Moses, with his rod (staff) in his hand, stretched forth his arms over the sea which caused it to part (Exodus 14:16, 21)!
19. The Bible says "the angel of God," which the Apostle Paul later clarifies was Jesus Christ (1Corinthians 10:1 - 4), led the Israelites to the sea to escape Pharaoh. The Lord, in the form of a pillar of cloud, then moved between his people and the Egyptians.
[Who Is the Angel of the Lord?]
The side of the pillar facing the Egyptians caused them to be in darkness, hindering their advance, while on the other side it provided light for the Israelites to safely cross the sea (Exodus 14:19 - 22).
20. The Bible says God began to further trouble the Egyptian army during the morning watch. This watch ran from about 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. (sunrise).
21. God allowed the Egyptians, after most of the Israelites had crossed the sea, to again pursue his people. As the chariots raced over the sea floor they were thrown into confusion. Their wheels began to swerve and get bogged down on the increasingly muddy sea floor (Exodus 14:25).
[Where Did Israel Cross the Sea?]
Psalm 77:16 - 20 also reveals that, during Egypt's pursuit of the Israelites, God caused a rainstorm, as well as lightning, thunder and possibly even an earthquake, to affect the Egyptians!
God then commanded Moses, after all the Israelites had crossed over on dry ground, to stretch forth his hands and cause the sea to return to normal. The sea crashed against the Egyptian army causing it to drown without any survivors (Exodus 14:21 - 28).
22. Moses took a census roughly one year after the events of Exodus 14. The total number of males, age twenty and above, that were counted was 603,550 (Numbers 1). This number, however, does not include women and children or the tribe of Levi. It also does not include a huge contingent of non-Israelites (a "mixed multitude") who also left Egypt (Exodus 12:38).
Roughly two or three million people, and likely even more, fled Egypt for the Promised Land.
Exodus 15 Answers
23. The dukes of Edom were the princes among the Edomites. The original dukes were the eleven sons of Esau (Genesis 36:40 - 43).
[Where Did the Edomites Live?]
24. Miriam was the older sister of Moses and Aaron. She was in her early 90s when she took a timbrel and began to praise God with other women. Exodus 15:20 labels her a prophetess, the first woman in the Bible to be so called.
25. The Lord told Moses to cast a certain tree into the water to make it drinkable. It then miraculously make the water sweat and drinkable (Exodus 15:25).
26. God promised his people that if they obeyed him they would not experience the same sicknesses and diseases he brought on the Egyptians (Exodus 15:26).
Exodus 16 Answers
27. In the wilderness of Sin, just one month after leaving Egypt (Iyar 15 or May 12), the Israelites complain they lack food. Instead of crying out to God to feed them they whine about Moses and Aaron!
28. God decided to feed his people with "bread from heaven" which the Israelites called manna (Exodus 16:4, 8, 15). He also provided quail for them eat.
29. The Lord used the miracle of the manna, which includes a double portion on the sixth day each week, to teach his people about preparing for his weekly Sabbath day (Exodus 16:4, 25 - 26). The Biblical Sabbath day runs from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday.
It is interesting to note that Israel is taught about the Bible Sabbath, and punished for not keeping it (see Exodus 16:27 - 30), a full four chapters BEFORE they receive the Ten Commandments!
30. God gave the Israelites enough manna to feed themselves each day. They were not allowed to store or otherwise keep it for the next day. God used the "bread from heaven" to teach his people to have daily faith in him.
31. God miraculously provided manna for his people during their entire forty years wandering the wilderness (Exodus 16:35).
Exodus 17 Answers
32. The Lord provided water for his people by having Moses strike a rock in Horeb which then miraculously gushed forth the precious liquid.
33. The Amalekites were descendants of Abraham through Issac's son Esau (Genesis 36:15 - 16). They were a nomadic people who inhabited the general region of the Negev and the Sinai.
[Genealogy of Abraham to Jesus!]
The battle against Israel started by the Amalekites was the first of many God's people would endure on the way to claiming their inheritance in the Promised Land.
34. Moses tasked Joshua with finding and leading men to fight against the Amalekites (Exodus 17:9).
35. Moses, as the battle rages against the enemy, is taken to a hill overlooking the battle. His outstretched arms over the battlefield, eventually held up by Aaron and Hur, insured Joshua's forces were victorious!
36. The unprovoked and brazen attacks by the Amalekites earns them God's promise to eventually wipe them off the face of the earth (Exodus 17:14 - 16, Deuteronomy 25:19)! This promise was fulfilled by King David (1Samuel 30).
Exodus 18 Answers
37. Moses' wife and two sons were with him as he traveled to Egypt to free the Israelites (Exodus 4). It was while they journeyed to the country that the incident involving Zipporah having to circumcise their son took place (Exodus 4:24 - 26). Since Zipporah is not mentioned again in the Bible until Exodus 18:2, it is likely after this incident she and the sons were sent back to Midian.
38. Jethro was a priest for the Midianites (Exodus 3:1), a people who can trace their lineage back to Abraham through his second wife Keturah (Genesis 25). He was a priest of a pagan god until, after hearing what God had done for Israel, recognized He was the one true deity (Exodus 18:11).
Jethro's subsequent act of offering sacrifices to God (Exodus 18:12) seems to indicate the sincerity of his belief in the Lord.
[Meaning of Old Testament Sacrifices]
39. Jethro suggested Moses delegate the responsibility of judging the people to many others who were also honest and wise. This would greatly ease Moses' burden but still allow the hardest cases to reach him (Exodus 18:17 - 26).
Exodus 19 Answers
40. The Israelites arrived near Mount Sinai, and Moses went up the mount to talk with God, on the sixth day of the third Hebrew month. This month, named Sivan, was preceded by the months of Nisan and Iyar. Sivan 6 in 1445 B.C. corresponds to June 1.
41. On June 1 Moses went up Mount Sinai to talk with God. He then came down to ask the Israelites if they agreed to enter into a covenant relationship with God (Exodus 19:3 - 7). Moses, on the day after the people agreed to the covenant (June 2), then goes up Sinai to again talk with God.
The Lord instructs Moses to command the people consecrate themselves for the next two days (June 3 and 4) as on the third day he will come down on Mount Sinai (Exodus 19:10 - 11, 15 - 16). It was on the morning of this third day (verse 16), the Day of Pentecost (June 5), that God gave the Ten Commandments to his people.
42. Moses, on the morning of Pentecost, brings the people out of their camp to the foot of Mount Sinai. At the foot of the mount they witness thunder and lightning as a thick cloud covers the mountain. The Lord then descends upon Sinai with fire which causes it to smoke like a furnace (Exodus 19:16 - 19).
Moses is then commanded to warn the people not to come any closer to Sinai as its holiness, due to God's presence, could cause them to be killed (Exodus 19:21 - 25).
Exodus 20 Answers
43. God, from on top of Mount Sinai, spoke the commandments for the people to hear (Exodus 20:1). The hearing of God's voice so frightened the people that they asked Moses to convey the Lord's words to them (verse 19)!
44. The first four commandments (Exodus 20:1 - 11) focus on man's relationship with God. The last six commandments are dedicated to how humans should treat each other.
45. The first nine commandments do not address the intent or attitude of a person's heart. They only require outward obedience to the law. The tenth commandment, however, is different.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's (Exodus 20:17).
[Meaning of Thou Shall Not Covet]
Coveting concerns the intent and thoughts of a person's heart. The tenth commandment foreshadows the much harder spiritual requirements of the New Covenant which would be delineated by Jesus Christ (see Matthew 5 - 7).
46. God reiterated to the Israelites that they should not indulge in idolatry (commandment #2) (Exodus 20:22 - 23).
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Ex. 21 to 30 Outline - Ex. 31 to 40 Outline
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