May 29, 2018 - Day 51 - Exodus 1

I am writing from my hotel room in Portland, OR.

A NEW BOOK!!!

Its been a long journey through Genesis, but we made it.

Exodus 1:

We open with a reminder of who Israel's (Jacob's) sons are, and how he has seventy total descendants.  All of Joseph's generation died, but because they made so many babies, the land was full of Israelites.  Israelite just meaning someone who descended from Israel.

A new king who didn't care about Joseph was worried about the Israelites because there was too many of them.  He feared they would grow too numerous and if war happened, they would side with his enemies.  Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

They enslaved the Israelites; but the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread.  Because of this, the Egyptians weren't too fond of the Israelites; so the Egyptians worked them hard.

The king of Egypt told the two Hebrew midwives to kill the boys of Hebrew women when they were born, but the midwives feared God so they didn't listen.  He asked why they let the boys live and they said because the Hebrew women gave birth before the midwives could get there.  lol.  nice one.

Because the midwives feared God, God gave them families.

Since he clearly can't count on these midwives, our chapter ends with Pharaoh telling his people to throw all the Hebrew baby boys into the Nile, but to let the girls live.

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