Key word: Deliverance
As Genesis concludes, we find the descendants of Abraham living in Egypt, having abandoned the land promised to them for the conveniences of a more civilized and developed country. In time, the Jewish people were no longer considered honored guests but hated slaves (1:8). They had entered Egypt as free people, they were now in bondage. They had entered Egypt as worshippers of Jehovah, by the time of Moses, they hardly recalled the Lord and were idolaters. What they needed was to be set free from bondage, both physical and spiritual. The Lord would call and prepare Moses to bring deliverance to His people. The Exodus is the story of that physical deliverance (chapters 1-18). The giving of the Law (chapters 19-24). So that they might find spiritual deliverance, and the building of the Tabernacle (chapters 25-40), that they might worship the Lord. Unfortunately, even as the Law was being given and the tabernacle being designed the people rebelled and briefly returned to idolatry (Chapter 32) but the Lord forgives them and the journey continues which bridges the physical and spiritual deliverance.
Key verse: Exodus 20:2 – “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.”
