Life of Moses

The meaning of the name Moses

Exodus 2:10 ESV

When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

Moses’ birth and early life

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The death of Moses

Deuteronomy 34:4–5 ESV

And the Lord said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.” So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord,

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Moses kills an Egyptian

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The calling of Moses

God reveals himself to Moses at the burning bush

Exodus 3:1–5 ESV

Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

He is called to deliver his people

Exodus 3:10 ESV

Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

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Moses learns the divine name

Exodus 3:14 ESV

God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I am has sent me to you.’ ”

Moses protests his inadequacy

Exodus 3:11 ESV

But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

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Moses’ confrontation with Pharaoh

Moses and Aaron speak to Pharaoh

Exodus 7:6–7 ESV

Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them. Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

Pharaoh’s disobedience leads to the plagues

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The death of the firstborn in Egypt

Exodus 11:4–9 ESV

So Moses said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘About midnight I will go out in the midst of Egypt, and every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the cattle. There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again. But not a dog shall growl against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, that you may know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.’ And all these your servants shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, ‘Get out, you and all the people who follow you.’ And after that I will go out.” And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

The institution of the Passover

Exodus 12:26–27 ESV

And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’ ” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.

Moses leads Israel in the exodus from Egypt

The crossing of the Red Sea

Exodus 14:29 ESV

But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

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Thanksgiving for deliverance from Egypt

Exodus 15:1 ESV

Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, “I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.

The establishment of the covenant with Moses

Moses is given the Ten Commandments

Exodus 31:18 ESV

And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.

He smashes the tablets because of the people’s idolatry

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He puts the new stone tablets in the ark

Deuteronomy 10:3–5 ESV

So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand. And he wrote on the tablets, in the same writing as before, the Ten Commandments that the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. And the Lord gave them to me. Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark that I had made. And there they are, as the Lord commanded me.”

Moses leads Israel in the wilderness

He asks to see the glory of the Lord

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The Lord promises his presence on the journey

Exodus 33:14 ESV

And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

The construction of the tabernacle

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Moses inaugurates the Aaronic priesthood

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Moses on the brink of the promised land

He takes a census before the entry into Canaan

Numbers 1:2 ESV

“Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head.

He sends spies ahead

Numbers 13:1–3 ESV

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.” So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel.

He is vindicated against the grumblers

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He is prohibited from entering the promised land

Numbers 20:12 ESV

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”

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Joshua succeeds Moses

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