The second book of the Bible, describing the departure of the Israelites from Egypt.
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Can God Change his mind?
I was recently thinking about the passage in exodus that talks about how the Israelites fell into sin while Moses was up on the mountain. God said that he would destroy all the Israelites but Moses ...
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Why were the people of Exodus so stubborn?
It appears that the people of Israel during the time of Exodus were so stubborn. They rebelled many times, grumbled against Moses and God over and over again. In spite of seeing all the miracles that ...
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How do Christians reconcile with Exodus 20:5 [closed]
Do Christians believe the description of God in Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your
God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the
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How could the Egyptian magicians do what God did through Moses?
In Exodus when God performed miracles through Moses and Aaron, the Egyptian magicians did the same things that God did, How is that possible ?
The first time:
Exodus 7:10-13
So Moses and ...
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Did Moses see the face of God?
Exodus 24:9-11
9 Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel
went up
10 and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something
like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, ...
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What explanations are given for the apparent exaggeration of the number of Israelites in the Exodus account?
Exodus 12:37-38 says that the Israelites numbered about 600,000 men besides women and children (plus non-Israelites and livestock). Numbers 1 gives a similar total. This means there would have been ...
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Did God kill the first born in Exodus?
Two Jehovah's Witnesses were here yesterday, and we talked for a while about religion. We mentioned briefly God's killing of all the first born in Egypt in Exodus 12:29, whereupon one of the Witnesses ...
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Of Whom is God jealous?
Exodus 20:5 NIV
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your
God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the
fathers to the third and fourth generation ...
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Who was Pharaoh when Moses lived in Egypt?
Do we have a good idea as to which Pharaoh(s) were around during the time of Moses' life? What internal and external evidence exists to back-up those claims? Do any Christian traditions attach any ...
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Does Exodus 3:14 explain who God is to everyone regardless of time and culture?
Exodus 3:14 states:
God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’
This seems appropriate in regard to the Israelites since they ...
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Why in the Book of Exodus did God let the people travel for exactly 40 years?
What is the symbolic idea behind this number?
Also, what might be His intention behind the travel?
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Why is the word “Ark” used for Noah's boat and the Ark of the Covenant?
What exactly is the meaning of an "ark" that applies to a boat and that thing that melts off the Nazi's faces in the first Indiana Jones movie?
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Exodus 29 and Communion
Today, while reading Exodus, I noticed a possible link between communion as defined in the New Testament, and priests eating the flesh of sacrifices as mentioned in the Torah. I haven't studied this ...
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Why does Moses have compassion that God lacks?
This question is inspired by this: Did God REALLY want to destroy the people of Israel?
God says to Moses:
The Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, they are an obstinate ...
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What are the arguments for the Exodus occuring in 1440BC or 1290BC?
There are two schools of thought on when the Exodus occurred, the "early" date of 1440BC, and the "later" date of 1290BC. How was each date arrived at, and what is the evidence for each?
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Who represented “the Lord” in Exodus 4:24-26, and what's the deal with the foreskin?
In Exodus 4:24-26:
At a lodging place on the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him. But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it. “Surely ...
