And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? < Exodus 2:12 | > Exodus 2:14 Reflection Exodus 2:13 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, […]
Exodus
The Book of Exodus recounts God’s deliverance of Israel from slavery and the formation of a covenant people. It continues the story begun in Genesis, moving from family history to national identity. Central to the narrative is Moses, whom God raises up to confront oppression, lead deliverance, and mediate God’s law.
Exodus opens with Israel enslaved in Egypt, oppressed by a Pharaoh who fears their growth. God hears the cries of His people and acts decisively. Through signs and wonders, culminating in the Passover and the crossing of the Red Sea, God demonstrates His power over nations, rulers, and false gods. Deliverance is shown to be an act of grace rooted in God’s faithfulness to His promises.
Following redemption, Exodus shifts from rescue to relationship. At Mount Sinai, God establishes a covenant with Israel, revealing His character and will through the law. The Ten Commandments form the heart of this instruction, outlining how a redeemed people are to live in faithful response—loving God and one another. Obedience is presented not as a means of salvation, but as a response to it.
The book also emphasizes God’s presence among His people. Detailed instructions for the tabernacle reveal a God who chooses to dwell with those He has redeemed. Holiness, worship, and order are not peripheral concerns; they are essential expressions of life with a holy God. Even after Israel’s failure with the golden calf, God’s mercy prevails, reaffirming His commitment to remain with His people.
Exodus concludes with the completion of the tabernacle and the visible glory of the LORD filling it. What began in bondage ends with God dwelling among a redeemed nation. The journey from slavery to service defines Israel’s identity and sets the foundation for all that follows in Scripture.
The Book of Exodus proclaims a timeless message: God delivers, God dwells, and God calls His redeemed people to live as a holy nation shaped by His presence and truth.
Exodus 2:14
And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known. < Exodus 2:13 | > Exodus 2:15 Reflection Exodus 2:14 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention […]
Exodus 2:15
Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well. < Exodus 2:14 | > Exodus 2:16 Reflection Exodus 2:15 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention […]
Exodus 2:16
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. < Exodus 2:15 | > Exodus 2:17 Reflection Exodus 2:16 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, holiness, and God’s presence with His people. […]
Exodus 2:17
And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. < Exodus 2:16 | > Exodus 2:18 Reflection Exodus 2:17 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, holiness, and God’s presence with His people. This verse may be […]
Exodus 2:18
And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day? < Exodus 2:17 | > Exodus 2:19 Reflection Exodus 2:18 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, holiness, and God’s presence with His people. This verse […]
Exodus 2:19
And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock. < Exodus 2:18 | > Exodus 2:20 Reflection Exodus 2:19 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, holiness, and God’s presence with […]
Exodus 2:2
And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. < Exodus 2:1 | > Exodus 2:3 Reflection Exodus 2:2 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, holiness, and God’s presence with His […]
Exodus 2:20
And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread. < Exodus 2:19 | > Exodus 2:21 Reflection Exodus 2:20 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, holiness, and God’s presence […]
Exodus 2:21
And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. < Exodus 2:20 | > Exodus 2:22 Reflection Exodus 2:21 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, holiness, and God’s presence with His people. This verse may be brief, but its […]
Exodus 2:22
And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land. < Exodus 2:21 | > Exodus 2:23 Reflection Exodus 2:22 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, holiness, and God’s presence with His […]
Exodus 2:23
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. < Exodus 2:22 | > Exodus 2:24 Reflection Exodus 2:23 sits within Exodus, the […]
Exodus 2:24
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. < Exodus 2:23 | > Exodus 2:25 Reflection Exodus 2:24 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, holiness, and God’s presence with His people. This verse may be brief, but […]
Exodus 2:25
And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them. < Exodus 2:24 | > Exodus 3:1 Reflection Exodus 2:25 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, holiness, and God’s presence with His people. This verse may be brief, but its words are […]
Exodus 2:3
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. < Exodus 2:2 | > Exodus 2:4 Reflection Exodus 2:3 sits within Exodus, the story […]
Exodus 2:4
And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. < Exodus 2:3 | > Exodus 2:5 Reflection Exodus 2:4 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, holiness, and God’s presence with His people. This verse may be brief, but its words are […]
Exodus 2:5
And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. < Exodus 2:4 | > Exodus 2:6 Reflection Exodus 2:5 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, […]
Exodus 2:6
And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children. < Exodus 2:5 | > Exodus 2:7 Reflection Exodus 2:6 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, […]
Exodus 2:7
Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? < Exodus 2:6 | > Exodus 2:8 Reflection Exodus 2:7 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, holiness, and […]
Exodus 2:8
And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother. < Exodus 2:7 | > Exodus 2:9 Reflection Exodus 2:8 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, holiness, and God’s presence with His people. This verse may be brief, but its […]
Exodus 2:9
And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it. < Exodus 2:8 | > Exodus 2:10 Reflection Exodus 2:9 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, […]
Exodus 20:1
And God spake all these words, saying, < Exodus 19:25 | > Exodus 20:2 Reflection Exodus 20:1 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, holiness, and God’s presence with His people. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing spake, words, saying, […]
Exodus 20:10
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: < Exodus 20:9 | > Exodus 20:11 Reflection Exodus 20:10 sits within […]
Exodus 20:11
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. < Exodus 20:10 | > Exodus 20:12 Reflection Exodus 20:11 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention […]
Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. < Exodus 20:11 | > Exodus 20:13 Reflection Exodus 20:12 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, holiness, and God’s presence with His people. This […]
Exodus 20:13
Thou shalt not kill. < Exodus 20:12 | > Exodus 20:14 Reflection Exodus 20:13 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, holiness, and God’s presence with His people. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing shalt, kill, it invites the reader […]
Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery. < Exodus 20:13 | > Exodus 20:15 Reflection Exodus 20:14 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, holiness, and God’s presence with His people. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing shalt, commit, adultery, it invites […]
Exodus 20:15
Thou shalt not steal. < Exodus 20:14 | > Exodus 20:16 Reflection Exodus 20:15 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, holiness, and God’s presence with His people. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing shalt, steal, it invites the reader […]
Exodus 20:16
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. < Exodus 20:15 | > Exodus 20:17 Reflection Exodus 20:16 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention to redemption, worship, holiness, and God’s presence with His people. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing shalt, […]
Exodus 20:17
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. < Exodus 20:16 | > Exodus 20:18 Reflection Exodus 20:17 sits within Exodus, the story of deliverance, where Scripture often draws attention […]