Thematic Bible: Of moses


Thematic Bible



He said to the elders: Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are with you. Anyone with a legal matter should approach them. Verse ConceptsWaitingAaron, PrivilegesMotionlessnessStaying PutPeople WaitingWaiting Till Marriage


The king's daughter came to the river to bathe. Her servants walked along the bank. Suddenly she noticed the basket in the papyrus reeds and sent a slave woman to get it. She opened it and saw a baby boy. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. This is one of the Hebrew babies, she said. His sister asked her: Shall I go and call a Hebrew woman to nurse the baby for you? read more.
Please do, she answered. So the girl went and brought the baby's own mother. Pharaoh's daughter told her: Take care of this child, and I will pay you. The baby's mother carried him home and took care of him. When he was old enough, she took him to the king's daughter, who adopted him. She named him Moses because she said: I pulled him out of the water.

And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him and nourished him as her own son. Verse ConceptsAdoption

By faith Moses, when he grew up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. Verse ConceptsExamples Of FaithUnworldlinessExploits Of FaithAdoptionNot Giving UpIdentityGrowingmanhoodrecognitionroyalty


Moses wrote down all Jehovah's words. Early the next morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain. He erected twelve sacred stones for the twelve tribes of Israel. Verse ConceptsAltarsThe Number TwelveBuildingMoses, Significance OfPillarsRising EarlyMorning DevotionsObelisksThose Who Rose EarlyTwelve Tribes



Moses raised his hand and hit the rock twice with the staff. Water came pouring out! All the people and their animals drank. Verse ConceptsArmsMiracles Of Moses And AaronSplitting RocksDoing Things TwiceStriking RocksProvision From Rocks

on the border of Edom. There Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron: Aaron is not going to enter the land I promised to give to Israel. He is going to die, because the two of you rebelled against my command at Meribah.

But Moses said: Please, Jehovah, send the message by whomever you will. Then the anger of Jehovah burned against Moses, and He said: Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he speaks fluently. He is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.



As long as Moses held up his hands, Israel would win, but as soon as he put his hands down, the Amalekites would start to win. Finally, Moses was so tired that Aaron and Hur got a rock for him to sit on. They stood beside him and supported his arms in the same position until sunset. That is how Joshua defeated the Amalekites. read more.
After the fight Jehovah said to Moses: Write an account of this victory and read it to Joshua. I want the Amalekites to be forgotten forever.

The king saw that the frogs were dead. He became stubborn again and, just as Jehovah had said, the king would not listen to Moses and Aaron. Verse ConceptsFreedom, Of The WillHeart, Fallen And RedeemedCorrupted ConsciencesStiffnecked PeopleCessationObstinate IndividualsThings Stopping

Moses and Aaron left the palace. Moses begged Jehovah to do something about the frogs he had sent as punishment for the king. Verse ConceptsPraying For Sinners

The king sent for Moses and Aaron and said: This time I have sinned. Jehovah is in the right. My people and I are in the wrong. Pray to Jehovah! We have had enough of this thunder and hail! I promise to let you go. You do not have to stay here any longer. Moses said to him: As soon as I go out of the city, I will lift up my hands in prayer to Jehovah. The thunder will stop. There will be no more hail. Thus you may know that the earth belongs to Jehovah. read more.
But I know that you and your servants do not yet respect Jehovah God. The flax and the barley were ruined, because the barley was ripe, and the flax was budding. But the wheat crops ripen later, and they were not damaged. Moses left the royal palace and the city. He lifted his arms in prayer to Jehovah. The thunder, hail, and drenching rain stopped. The king realized that the storm was over. He disobeyed once more. He and his officials were so stubborn that he refused to let the Israelites go. This was exactly what Jehovah said would happen.

Jehovah was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him! So I also prayed for Aaron at the same time. Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsGod Might Kill His PeoplePraying For SinnersGod Angry With Individuals

When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian by a well. Verse ConceptsDanger, PhysicalFugitivesSittingPeople Sitting DownAttempting To Kill Specific People

Moses cried out to Jehovah: What should I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me! Verse ConceptsSelf PityCrying To GodFear Of Stoning

Moses said to Joshua: Choose some of our men. Then fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill. I will hold in my hand the staff God told me to take along.

Jehovah then spoke to Moses: Tell Aaron, Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt; its rivers, canals, ponds, and all its reservoirs. They will turn into blood. There will be blood everywhere in Egypt, even in the buckets of wood and stone pitchers. Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesRivers And StreamsStonesWoodPoolsRodsBucketsStretching OutWater ContainersWood And Stone

As for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. The sons of Israel shall go through the midst of the sea on dry land. Verse ConceptsMiracles, Responses ToStretching OutDivision Of WatersDry LandWaters DividedComing To The Red Sea

Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky. Then Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. Jehovah rained hail on the land of Egypt. Verse ConceptsFamine, Causes OfThunderMiracles Of Moses And AaronHailFire From Heaven

Moses held his staff over the land of Egypt. Jehovah made a wind from the east blow over the land all that day and all that night. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts. Verse ConceptseastAnger Of God, Examples OfMiracles Of Moses And AaronOne DayOut Of The EastbugsThe East Wind

Jehovah said to Moses: Tell Aaron, Strike the ground with your stick. The dust will change into gnats in all of Egypt.' Verse ConceptsDust, Literal UseInsectsFliesThings Changed

Jehovah said to Moses: Go in front of the people. Take the elders of Israel with you. Take your rod with which you struck the river, in your hand, and go. Verse ConceptsThe Elders Gathered

Jehovah asked him: What is that in your hand? He answered: A shepherd's staff. Verse ConceptsSmall Things God UsesWhat Is This?

Take your staff in your hand with which you shall perform the signs. Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalSigns From God

So Moses took his wife and his sons and mounted them on a donkey and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand.


Moses said: O Jehovah I am not a man of words. I have never been so, and am not now, even after what you have said to your servant. Talking is hard for me, and I am slow of tongue. Verse ConceptsExcusesEloquenceMoses, Significance OfMutenessHumility, Examples OfSelf AbasementSpeech ImpedimentsNervousnessSpeech

Moses and the Israelites sang this song to Jehovah: I will sing to Jehovah, because he has won a glorious victory. He has thrown the horses and their riders into the sea. Jehovah is my strong defender. He is the one who has saved me. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will sing about his greatness. Jehovah is His name, and he is a warrior! read more.
He threw the chariots and army of Egypt's king into the Red Sea, and he drowned the best of the king's army. The depths have covered them. They sank to the bottom just like boulders. With the tremendous force of your right arm, Jehovah, you crushed your enemies. In the greatness of your excellence you overthrow those who rose up against you. You sent your wrath and consumed them like stubble. With a blast from your nostrils, the water piled up. The waves stood up like a dam. The deep water thickened in the middle of the sea. The enemy said: 'I will pursue them! I will catch them! I will divide the loot! I will take all I want! I will use my sword! I will take all they have!' Your breath blew the sea over them. They sank like lead in the raging water. Who among the gods is like you Jehovah? Who is like you, wonderful in holiness? Who can work wonders and mighty acts like yours? You stretched out your right hand, and the earth swallowed our enemies. Using your powerful love, you rescued (redeemed) the people. Nations learned of this and trembled. The Philistines shook with horror. The sheiks (chiefs) of Edom were dismayed. The leaders of Moab are griped with fear. The inhabitants of Canaan are filled with fear. Terror and dread fall upon them. By the greatness of your arm they are motionless as stone. Until your people pass over, O Jehovah, until the people pass over whom you have purchased. You will bring them and plant them on your own mountain, the place where you live, O Jehovah, the holy place that you built with your own hands, O Jehovah. Jehovah will rule as king forever and ever. When Pharaoh's horses, chariots, and cavalry went into the sea, Jehovah made the water of the sea flow back over them. The Israelites had gone through the sea on dry ground.

Moses came down from Mount Sinai. The two tablets of the testimony were in Moses' hand as he came down from the mountain. Moses did not know that the skin of his face glowed because he spoke with God. Aaron and all the Israelites looked at Moses and saw his face glowing. They were afraid to come near him. Moses called to them. Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation came back to him. Then Moses spoke to them. read more.
All the other Israelites came near him. He commanded them to do everything Jehovah told him on Mount Sinai. Moses put a veil over his face when he finished speaking. When Moses went into Jehovah's presence to speak with him, he took off the veil until he came out. When he came out and told the Israelites what he had been commanded, they would see that Moses' face was glowing. Moses would put the veil back on until he went in again to speak with Jehovah.


Then Moses said: Please show me your glory! Jehovah said: I will make all my goodness pass in front of you. I will call out my name, JEHOVAH. I will be kind to anyone I want to. I will be merciful to anyone I want to. But he said: You cannot see my face, because no one may see me and live. read more.
Then Jehovah said: Look, there is a place near me. Stand by this rocky cliff. When my glory passes by, I will put you in a crevice in the cliff and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. Then I will take my hand away, and you will see my back, but my face must not be seen.

Moses and Aaron, together with Nadab and Abihu and the seventy leaders, went up the mountain. They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something that looked like a pavement made out of sapphire. It was as bright as the sky. Even though these leaders of Israel saw God, he did not punish them. So they ate and drank.

There the angel of Jehovah appeared to him in a flame of fire coming from the middle of a bush. Moses saw that the bush was on fire but that it was not burning up. Verse ConceptsGod, Glory OfAngel of the LordMetaphysicsFireTheophanyGod's Glory RevealedGod, Presence OfGod AppearingNot Destroyed