Quotes About Exodus

God's use of the ordinary to bring about the extraordinary is as much in evidence here in the early events of Exodus as anywhere in Scripture. His tendency to bring about his will through ordinary items, ordinary people, and ordinary events is no less at work today than it was in Jochebed's.

I'm a proper Essex girl because my family was part of that great exodus from the East End.

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.

salvation is from the Jews" (Jn 4:22). It is so critical for Christians to recognize the fact that the imagery of betrothal and marriage, the language of husband and wife, does not begin in the New Testament. It began with the Exodus

And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

Go down, Moses,Way down in Egypt land,Tell old Pharaoh,Let my people go.

Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years.

And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

Out of Egypt have I called my son.

Let my people go.

Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick.

I'm mixed on figs. The fleshy quality feels spooky. In Italian, il fico, fig, has a slangy turn into la fica, meaning vulva. Possibly because of the famous fig leaf exodus from Eden, it seems like the most ancient of fruits. Oddest, too—the fig flower is inside the fruit. To pull one open is to look into a complex, primitive, infinitely sophisticated life cycle tableau.

What followed became known as "the exodus." First, a whole group of senior managers who had been part of Ron's team—our financial officer, our data processing manager, the guy who was running our distribution centers—all walked out behind him. You can imagine how Wall Street felt about that.

The more I read my Bible the more I veered away from the Jehovah's Witnesses.

When we think of the Old Covenant, there are two ideas, both of which must be held at the same time. (1) We must see that the Ten Commandments are the basic covenant document that established Israel as a theocratic nation. At the same time, (2) we must see that all of the laws, holy days, priesthood and sacrifices became part of the 'Old Covenant.' Scripture, in Exodus 24:1-8 and other places, clearly makes this distinction.

They are never called or treated as 'the unchanging moral law of God' either here in the Exodus passage that introduces them or anywhere else in Scripture. To call the Ten Commandments the 'moral law of God' is to use a purely theological term2 that is without any textual support from either this introductory passage or any other passage in Scripture.

The text of 14:3–5 has played an important role in the larger chronological discussions. For example, Rashi argued that Pharaoh was prompted to pursue the Israelites because of their failure to return after three days (cf. 5:3). If this is the case, Rashi continued, "on the fifth and sixth day they pursued them . . . and, thus, this was the seventh day of Passover.

God's supremacy is also demonstrated in His perfect rule over the wills of men. Let the reader ponder carefully Exodus 34:24. Three

The real subject of this Book of the Wilderness, I suggest, is the longing of the people of Israel to learn directly from God, by learning something new about the Torah, about the world and themselves. What they are developing in their skeptical discourse is a language of imaginative truth, in which the fantasies of return to Egypt will be brought into connection with the miracles of Exodus. In them, traumatic suffering and traumatic revelation seek some subjective expression.

Inside the Tent of Meeting, the Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to his friend. —Exodus 33:11

God replied to Moses, "I Am Who I Am. Say this to the people of Israel: I Am has sent me to you." —Exodus 3:14

Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.

world's first labor story: Exodus. Pharaoh was the first bad boss, Moses was the first labor leader, and the Exodus was the first strike.