Exodus Worksheet - Chapter 2

 

Review:

In Exodus 1, we saw that the new Pharaoh knew nothing about Joseph and his family, but he knew that the Israelites were great in number and he feared them taking over his kingdom one day.  He began to make their lives bitter with hard labor and slavery. 

We looked again at God's covenant with Abraham in Genesis 15 and saw that his descendants would be enslaved for 400 years, but God promised years before that actually happened that He would bring them out of that slavery in the 4th generation. 

We saw that Pharaoh commanded the midwives to kill the baby boys as they were born to the Hebrew women, but the midwives feared God and would not kill them.  Then Pharaoh commanded all his people to take every son born to a Jew and throw them into the Nile river, but to keep the daughters alive.

Exodus Chapter 2

1.  A man and woman from the house of Levi married and had a son. 

• What did they do when they saw that the son was beautiful (lovely in the sight of God) ? vs. 2 -

2.  How is the faith of Moses' parents described in Hebrews 11:23?

When Moses' mother could not hide him any longer, she got a wicker basket and covered it with tar and pitch, putting the child among the reeds by the bank of the Nile. 

The sister of the baby (Moses) stood at a distance to find out what would happen to him.  His sister, we will learn later, is Miriam. (Ex.15:20; Numbers 26:59).

3.  What did she see happened to her baby brother? vs. 5-6 -

4.  How did Miriam arrange for their mother to get to nurse Moses as an infant still? vs. 7-9 -

5.  The child Moses grew, and Miriam brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. 

• Why did she name him Moses? vs. 10 -

6.  How was Moses educated as he grew up?

• Acts 7:21-22 -

7.  Although Moses had this education and this upbringing in the royal palace of Egypt, he knew that he was not an Egyptian but a Hebrew.  

• What entered Moses' mind when he was approaching the age of 40?
• Acts 7:23 -
• Exodus 2:11 -

8.  What did he see and what did he do about it?

• Exodus 2:12 -
• Acts 7:24 -

9.  What had Moses understood his purpose for being in Egypt was and what God had called him to do?

• Acts 7:25 -

10. What had Moses decided in his own heart by faith?

• Hebrews 11:24-27 - 

11. Although he understood this calling, did his Hebrew brethren understand it? 

What happened on the next day and what did the Hebrews say to Moses?

• Exodus 2:13-14-
• Acts 7:26-28 -

12. When Pharaoh heard what Moses had done to the Egyptian, what was Pharaoah trying to do to Moses?

• Exodus 2:15 -

13.  What did Moses do to flee the wrath of Pharaoh?  vs. 15 -

14. According to Hebrews 11:27, was Moses leaving Egypt out of fear or out of faith?

• What did Moses see?
• What is faith according to Hebrews 11:1 -

15.  Where did Moses flee to? vs. 15 - 

As he was sitting by a well, the daughters of the priest of Midian came to water their flock at the well.  The shepherds came to drive them away, but Moses stood up to help them. 

When the daughters went back to their father, Reuel (or Jethro), they told him they had been helped by an Egyptian.  Obviously Moses was dressed in the clothing of an Egyptian, being raised in Pharaoh's household. 

Their father invited him in to have a meal and this became Moses' home for the next 40 years. (Acts 7:29,30)

16. Reuel (Jethro) gave one of his daughters to Moses for a wife. 

• What was her name? vs. 21 - 

17. She conceived a son by Moses. 

• What did Moses name his son and what did his name mean? vs. 22 - 

18.  What happened 40 years later? 

• Acts 7:30 -35 -
• Exodus 2:23-25 -
• We will read about this in Exodus Chapter 3 in more detail.

God had remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 

God will deliver the Hebrew children from the Egyptian bondage through Moses. 

He didn't do it when Moses was in his prime years and in the right place of prestige and honor in Pharaoh's household in Egypt ...

...Instead it was God's will to allow Moses to be in the desert feeling as though he had failed in his calling and had blown it, shepherding sheep on the backside of a mountain in the desert of Midian ... for 40 long years ...

and then as an 80 year old man ... suddenly God appears and reaffirms His call and commission to his life!

Application:

What do you think Moses learned during those 40 years that prepared him for the task ahead? 

As many know from prior Bible study, there will be another 40 year period of leading the children of Israel through the desert after the Exodus from Egypt. 

How will this time of preparation be of use to the calling God has placed on his life?

• Can you relate to his wilderness experience? 
• Can you "see Him as unseen" as Moses did when he left Egypt by "faith"? 
• What is God asking you to continue to believe by faith today?

Your summary and prayer today:

 

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