Day 38 – The Ten Commandments
Exodus 19 1 Three months to the day after leaving Egypt, the Israelites reached the desert of Sinai. 2 Setting out from Rephidim, they reached the desert of Sinai and pitched camp in the desert; there, facing the mountain, Israel pitched camp. 3 Moses then went up to God, and Yahweh called to him from the mountain, saying, ‘Say this to the House of Jacob! Tell the Israelites,…
Day 37 – The Mystical Works of God
Exodus 17 1 The whole community of Israelites left the desert of Sin, travelling by stages as Yahweh ordered. They pitched camp at Rephidim where there was no water for the people to drink. 2 The people took issue with Moses for this and said, ‘Give us water to drink.’ Moses replied, ‘Why take issue with me? Why do you put Yahweh to the test?’ 3 But tormented by thirst,…
Day 36 – Manna From Heaven
Exodus 15 1 It was then that Moses and the Israelites sang this song in Yahweh’s honour: I shall sing to Yahweh, for he has covered himself in glory, horse and rider he has thrown into the sea. 2 Yah is my strength and my song, to him I owe my deliverance. He is my God and I shall praise him, my father’s God and I shall…
Day 35 – Crossing the Red Sea
Exodus 13 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said, 2 ‘Consecrate all the first-born to me, the first birth from every womb, among the Israelites. Whether man or beast, it is mine.’ 3 Moses said to the people, ‘Remember this day, on which you came out of Egypt, from the place of slave-labour, for by the strength of his hand Yahweh brought you out of it; no leavened…
Day 34 – The Passover Instituted
Exodus 12 1 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 ‘This month must be the first of all the months for you, the first month of your year. 3 Speak to the whole community of Israel and say, “On the tenth day of this month each man must take an animal from the flock for his family: one animal for each household.…
Day 33 – Locusts, Darkness, and Death of the First Born
Exodus 10 1 Yahweh then said to Moses, ‘Go to Pharaoh, for I have made him and his officials stubborn, to display these signs of mine among them; 2 so that you can tell your sons and your grandsons how I made fools of the Egyptians and what signs I performed among them, so that you would…
Day 32 – Cattle, Boils and Hail
Exodus 9 1 Yahweh then said to Moses, ‘Go to Pharaoh and say to him, “Yahweh, God of the Hebrews, says this: Let my people go and worship me. 2 If you refuse to let them go and detain them any longer, 3 look, the hand of Yahweh will strike your livestock in the fields, horses, donkeys, camels, oxen and flocks with a…
Day 31 – Frogs, Gnats and Flies
Exodus 8 1 Yahweh then said to Moses, ‘Say to Aaron, “Stretch out your hand with your staff, over the rivers, the canals and the marshland, and bring the frogs up over the land of Egypt.” ‘ 2 So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of…
Day 30 – Nile Turned to Blood
Exodus 6 1 Yahweh then said to Moses, ‘Now you will see what I am going to do to Pharaoh. A mighty hand will force him to let them go, a mighty hand will force him to expel them from his country.’ 2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, ‘I am Yahweh. 3 To Abraham, Isaac and Jacob I appeared as El Shaddai, but I did not make…
Day 29 – Moses Returns to Egypt
Exodus 4 1 Moses replied as follows, ‘But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my words, and say to me, “Yahweh has not appeared to you”?’ 2 Yahweh then said, ‘What is that in your hand?’ ‘A staff,’ he said. 3 ‘Throw it on the ground,’ said Yahweh. Moses threw it on the ground; the staff turned into a…