Moses
What book of the Bible is the story of Moses and the burning bush found?
What is Exodus
God told Moses to send some men into a land that God was going to give the Israelites. What was the name of this land?
Who is Jethro, his father-in-law
What book of the Bible is the story of Joshua and the spies found?
What is Numbers
In Exodus 3, what did God tell Moses to take off and why?
5“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
In Numbers 13, God told Moses to send one leader from each of the ancestral tribes. How many spies were sent into the land?
What is 12
In Exodus 4, God gives Moses signs that he can use to convince people that God had come to him. What was the second sign that God performed for, or on Moses?
6Then the Lord said, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous—it had become as white as snow.
7“Now put it back into your cloak,” he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh.
God had promised to give them a land flowing with milk and honey. When the spies came back to report on what they found in the land, they indeed reported that the land was flowing with milk and honey. But....what else did the spies report?
27They gave Moses this account: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit. 28But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large.
31But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.” 32And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. 33We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
From Exodus 12, tell me what you know or remember about the Passover, which occurred after all the plagues had come upon the land of Egypt.
21Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb. 22Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning. 23When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
24“Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants. 25When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony. 26And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ 27then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’ ” Then the people bowed down and worshiped. 28The Israelites did just what the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.
29At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well. 30Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.
Because of the negative reports spread by many of the spies, God's people eventually rebelled against God and his instructions. In Exodus 14, what eventually happened to each of the spies that had gone into the land?
36So the men Moses had sent to explore the land, who returned and made the whole community grumble against him by spreading a bad report about it— 37these men who were responsible for spreading the bad report about the land were struck down and died of a plague before the Lord. 38Of the men who went to explore the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh survived.