Quotes about Exodus
God's act of salvation in Exodus hearkens back to God's act of creation in Genesis, when God separated the waters on the second and third days of creation. Saving Israel is a divine act of "re-creation.
- Peter Enns
Then Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram, and they sent him away with his wife and all his possessions.
- Genesis 12:20
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
- Genesis 15:13
These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:
- Exodus 1:1
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
- Exodus 1:3
Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
- Exodus 1:4
but the Israelites were fruitful and increased rapidly; they multiplied and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.
- Exodus 1:7
“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.
- Exodus 1:9
Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,
- Exodus 1:15
“When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.”
- Exodus 1:16
The midwives answered Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife arrives.”
- Exodus 1:19
and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months.
- Exodus 2:2