Bibles & Timelines
The first row of the course timeline, with the date listed as "Prehistory," is this.
What is Creation?
This is Pharaoh's first plan for dealing with the growing Hebrew population.
What is forced labor (slavery)? (Exod 1:11–14)
To persuade the people, God tells Moses to throw this on the ground, where it becomes a snake.
What is his staff? (Exod 4:2–4)
Note: the other two signs are his hand turning white with disease and being restored (4:6–7), and Nile water turning to blood (4:9).
When Pharaoh keeps refusing, God strikes the whole land of Egypt with a series of these.
What are the plagues? (Exod 7–11)
God goes ahead of the Israelites in these two forms, one by day and one by night.
What are a pillar of cloud and a pillar of fire? (Exod 13:21–22)
This name for the Jewish Bible is an acronym, and its "T" stands for Torah.
What is the Tanakh? (Torah, Nevi'im, Khethuvim)
Ordered to kill the Hebrew baby boys, these women refuse and lie to Pharaoh instead.
Who are the Hebrew midwives (Shiphrah and Puah)? (Exod 1:15–21)
Moses' very first objection to God's call is this question about himself.
What is "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh?" (Exod 3:11)
This is the tenth and final plague God sends against Egypt.
What is the death of the firstborn? (Exod 11:5; 12:29)
God parts these waters so the Israelites can cross, then closes them on the pursuing Egyptian army.
What is the Red Sea (or "Sea of Reeds")? (Exod 14:21–28)
This word refers to whatever texts a particular tradition considers sacred.
What is Scripture?
After killing an Egyptian taskmaster and hiding his body in the sand, Moses flees to this land.
What is Midian? (Exod 2:11–15)
At the bush, God says God is the God of these three ancestors from Genesis.
Who are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? (Exod 3:6, 15)
In the first plague, the water of the Nile becomes this.
What is blood? (Exod 7:17–21)
Trapped at the sea, the Israelites bitterly ask Moses whether there were no graves in this place.
What is Egypt? (Exod 14:11–12)
This part of the Christian Bible contains the same books as the Tanakh, arranged in a different order.
What is the Old Testament?
In Midian, Moses marries Zipporah, the daughter of this priest, whose flock he is tending when he sees the bush.
Who is Jethro (also called Reuel)? (Exod 2:16–21; 3:1)
Moses objects that he is "slow of speech." God answers by asking this question.
What is "Who gives speech to mortals?" (Exod 4:10–12)
When the magicians cannot copy the plague of gnats, they tell Pharaoh this.
What is "This is the finger of God"? (Exod 8:19)
What did the Egyptians give the departing Israelites? (name at least two)
What is gold, silver, and clothing? (Exod 12:33–36)
On the timeline, the years 1300–1250 BCE belong to this period.
What is the Wilderness?
This is what Pharaoh fears about the Israelites. It is described in words that echo God's blessing in Genesis 1.
What is their growing numbers ("fruitful" and "multiplied")? (Exod 1:7–10; Gen 1:28)
Name all three names God reveals to Moses at the bush.
What are "I am who I am," "I am," and YHWH ("the LORD")? (Exod 3:14–15)
God says repeatedly that the plagues are sent not only as punishment but so that Egypt, Pharaoh, and Israel will do this.
What is "know that I am the LORD"? (Exod 7:5; 9:14–16; 10:1–2)
With their chariot wheels clogged in the sea, the Egyptians try to flee and admit this about the LORD.
What is "the LORD is fighting for them"? (Exod 14:25)