Friday, February 02, 2007

Exodus 2:1-10

Study Questions for Exodus 2:1-10

Context?
What has gone on so far in the book?

Introduction:
Can you tell where the story breaks are? Introduction…conclusion.

Generally, what is this story about? Who is the story about?

2:1 Who were Moses parents?
What does “house of Levi” mean?
Is there any significance to the fact that they were from the tribe of Levy? What?
What was the tribe of Levi’s significance later in Jewish history? Pedigree?

2—The woman bore a son. But his sister and brother (7:7) were both older than Moses. Why is it worded this way?
What does “fine child” mean? Acts 7:20; Heb 11:23
What did the parents do with Moses after he was born? For how long?
What about the king’s edict?
Does the context and the way the text is written lead you to think Moses’ mother thought of God the same way the midwives did? What did the New Testament writer think? Heb 11:23

3—What did Moses’ mother do next? Why?
Why couldn’t she hide him any longer?
What is an ark? Isa. 18:2
What did she make it out of?
Where else do you see the word ark (same Heb. Word) in the Bible? Gen 6:14; 1 Pet. 3:20
What happened in each of these instances?
Why did she put the ark in the rushes?

4—who was standing by watching? Ex. 15:20
Why don’t they mention anyone’s names?

5—How much time elapsed between when the mother put her baby in the reeds and the Pharaoh’s daughter finds him?
Why was Pharaoh’s daughter down at the water’s edge?
Why were the attendants walking along the river banks?
What did she do when she saw the basket in the reeds?

6—What happened when the basket was brought to the woman?
What did she think about the baby?
How did she know he was a Hebrew baby? Josh 5:5

7—where did the sister come from?
How did they communicate?
What did she say to the daughter of Pharaoh?
Did that make sense in the context?

8—How did Pharaoh’s daughter respond to the request?
Who did the sister get to take care of the baby?
Did this make sense?
What do you think the Pharaoh’s daughter thought about the whole event?

9—What did the daughter of Pharaoh tell the mother?
What besides allowing the mother to take care of her own baby was given to her?
What about the law about having male babies?
Is there any advantage for Moses to be raised by his own parents in his own home? 2:6

10—How much older was Moses when he was taken to the daughter of Pharaoh?
There is some evidence that he was around 9 before he was taken to the Pharaoh’s house. Notice the text says nothing about being weaned.
What did the daughter of Pharaoh name the child? Why?
How old was Moses when he was formally named?
In Egyptian the name Moses sounds like the word for “child of the Nile”
In Hebrew it sounds like the word for “drawing out.”
By naming him, she formally recognized him as her (adopted) son.

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