The LORD said to Moses, 2 “Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, in mine”
1. What does it mean to consecrate the firstborn males?
The gods of Egypt had always claimed the firstborn as their own, and now God claims the firstborn of Israel as His own.
Consecrate to me every firstborn male. God had adopted Israel as his firstborn and had delivered every firstborn among the
Israelites, whether human or animal, from the tenth plague. All the firstborn in Israel were therefore his. Jesus, Mary’s firstborn son, was presented to the Lord in accordance with this law.
3 Then Moses said to the people, “Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, for by a strong hand the LORDbrought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten. 4 Today, in the month of Abib, you are going out. 5 And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month. 6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD. 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, and no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory.
2. Why is God repeating himself concerning the Passover instruction and the feast of unleavened bread?
Never forget. God used the word remember over 800 times in the bible because we have a tendency to forget who we are and who God is. It was not long before the people began to forget.
Judges 2:10-12 (KJV)
10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not
the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel. 11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: 12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people thatwere round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
8 You shall tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
3. Why bother the kids with this story?
He knows that even if they remember to keep the ceremonies, they are going to forget what the ceremony means. Our children need to know why we believe
what we do.
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Exodus 13:9 (ESV)
9 And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.
4. What does this mean?
13:9 like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead.
A figure of speech. A literal reading of this verse has led to the practice of writing the texts of several pieces of scripture (vv. 1–10, vv. 11–16,Dt 6:4–9 and Dt 11:13–21) on separate strips of parchment and placing them in two small leather boxes, which the observant Jew straps on his forehead and left arm before his morning prayers. The boxes are called
“phylacteries”.
Deuteronomy 6:8-9 (ESV) 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
10 You shall therefore keep this statute at its appointed time from year to year. 11 “When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and your fathers, and shall give it to you, 12 you shall set apart to the LORD all that first opens the womb. All the firstborn of your animals that are males shall be the LORD’s. 13 Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. Every firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem.
5. What does God mean “redeem” a donkey?
13:13Redeem. The verb means “obtain release, often (as here) by means of payment.” donkey. An “unclean” domestic animal that was not to be offered as a sacrifice to God. every firstborn among your sons.Humans were to be consecrated to the Lord by their life, not by their death .
Every firstling of an ass was to be redeemed with a lamb. God did not want one of
these long-eared animals as an offering. The offering had to be a lamb. The firstborn of man among their children were to be redeemed, as we shall see
later on, by silver. Silver was the redemption money.
The firstborn of Israel were redeemed by the blood. There was a cost. Later they would have pay a fee to enter the “promised land” just so they would all realize they had some “skin in the game”. Eventually this became the temple tax which Jesus paid for himself and Peter out of the mouth of a fish.
14 And when in time to come your son asks you, ‘What does
this mean?’ you shall say to him, ‘By a strong hand the
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6. God keeps talking about this land where they are going, a land of “milk and honey”. What about the people already living there?Will they fit in? Is God fair?
They were told to take possession of the land. Operation Repo. The land belonged to God. When they come to repo your car you can just walk away and let it go or you can fight and raise hell. They could have walked away. They chose to fight.
17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, “Lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.” 18 But God led the people
around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the people of
Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle.
7. What route did the Israelites take in leaving Egypt?
Scholars dispute the route. It’s unclear, we don’t know where these cities were. KJV says “harnessed for battle” marching inan orderly fashion.
Blue Line: This is the traditional route. The proposed crossing of the Red Sea for this route is a river connecting the lakes north of the Red Sea. Our blue line begins after the supposed crossing in this case. After they went up to Mt. Sinai, they
proceeded up the Gulf of Aqaba, never going down the Arabian Peninsula to the east side of the Gulf.
Red Line: This is Ron Wyatt’s proposed route. It follows an ancient road, then branches off
the road and goes down a long gorge with high mountains on each side. It ends at a spacious beach with ample room for hundreds of thousands of Israelites, however, there was no way of escape.
Purple Line: This is the proposed route of Williams and Cornuke. They take the first part of the traditional route, then join Wyatt’s line at Elim in Midian. Their crossing is at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba which is claimed by them to be much shallower than Wyatt’s route.
8. Couldn’t God miraculously bring them through the Philistine country and saved a lot of time?
During the 1967 Six-Day War in the land of
Palestine, the Israelites moved right down the sea coast and moved the Egyptians right out. Israel was prepared for war in 1967. Yes God could have performed a miracle, he could have led them through Philistine territory, but he was more interested in developing a nation that could stand on its own feet. He left Moses in the wilderness for 40 years, he left Jesus in the wilderness for 40 days, He leaves the Israelites in the wilderness for 40 years. Why can’t we just dispense with all the waiting? Americans don’t like to wait either.
19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones with you from here.”
9. Who was Joseph?
Moses took the bones of Joseph. From Genesis 50:25 Ye shall carry up my bones—That I may finally rest with my ancestors in the land which God gave to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and which is a pledge as it is a type of the kingdom of Heaven. Thus says the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, Hebrews 11:22: “By FAITH Joseph, when he died, (τελευτων, when dying), made mention of the departure (εξοδου, of the EXODUS) of the children of Israel; and gave
commandment concerning his bones. From this
it is evident that Joseph considered all these things as typical, and by this very commandment expressed his faith in the immortality of the soul, and the general resurrection of the dead.
This oath, by which Joseph then bound his brethren, their posterity considered as binding on themselves; and Moses took care, when he departed from Egypt, to carry up Joseph’s body with him, Exodus 13:19; which was afterwards buried in Shechem, Joshua 24:32, the very portion which Jacob had purchased from the Amorites, and which he gave to his son Joseph. It is supposed that the Israelites carried with them the bones or remains of all the twelve sons of Jacob, each tribe taking care of the bones of its own patriarch, while Moses took care of the bones of Joseph. St. Stephen expressly says,Acts 7:15, 16, that not only Jacob, but the fathers were carried from Egypt into Sychem; and this was the only opportunity that seems to have presented itself for doing this: and certainly the reason that rendered it proper to remove the bones of Joseph to the promised land, had equal weight in reference to those of the other patriarchs. ACC
Exodus 13:20-22 (ESV)
20 And they moved on from Succoth and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness. 21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night. 22 The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people.
10. Why was it necessary for the Lord to lead them with a pillar of fire and a cloud by day?
These people are not indwelt with the Holy Spirit. He lives within every believer now, but He didn’t at that time. 2 Corinthians 5:7 “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” They needed to see something. As a new believer I needed to see things.
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ESVN………….ESV Study Bible Notes
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MSBN…….MacArthur NASB Study Notes
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NIVSN…..NIV Study Notes.
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JVM ….J Vernon McGee,
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ACC …. Adam Clarke’s Commentary
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BN …..Barnes Notes
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WBC…… Wycliffe Bible Commentary
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CN …… Constables Notes
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IC……….Ironside Commentary
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NET………Net Bible Study Notes.
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JFB…………..Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary
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VWS……………..Vincent Word Studies
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CMM………….Commentary on Matthew and Mark
BDB………….. Barclay’s Daily Study Bible (NT)
Darby………..John Darby’s Synopsis of the OT and NT
Johnson………Johnson’s Notes on the New Testament.
NTCMM…………..The New Testament Commentary: Matthew and Mark.
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