Exodus 13-15
- I'm concerned - what does "consecrate" or "redeem" every first-born mean? 'Consecrate' makes it sound like some sort of ritual baptism or rite of passage since they were born, like when a priest anoints the head of those being baptized. 'Redeem' makes it sound downright sacrificial.
- Also, it also seems like they only cared about the first-born males. What if a couples' first-born child was a girl? Does the girl not count, or do they? Do they only go for the first male, even if the male child has an older sister, or do they not do anything about any of the children if the first child is a girl?
- Okay, so it was super cool of God to give the Israelites a constant visual guide out of Egypt (Cloud by day, Fire by night) but did they have time to sleep? I hope so, or you're going to lose a lot of people on the journey from sheer exhaustion.
- The Ancient High Speed Chase is upon us. Pharaoh is still being an asshole, and thinks he can take the Israelites back just because they're camped out by the Red Sea. He shall see. #puns
- Moses divided the Red Sea, then let the Egyptians drown after the Israelites escape as God commanded. For God to add "no killing" to the 10 Commandments, He seems to have a blasé attitude about He Himself killing the very people He created.
- And then the Israelites sang a long song about the glory of God, and the death of the Egyptians, and their rescue. They then walked for 3 days with no water until God had Moses perform a small miracle of purifying water to drink, and they camped in Elim. 12 springs of water and 70 palm trees seems pretty exact.
Fun Fact: Exodus is Book 2 of 5 books that make up The Pentateuch, otherwise known as the Torah or Law. The 5 books are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (a name I can never hear without thinking about the musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber). As to the author of The Pentateuch, nobody really knows. Some hold that Moses wrote the five books, which originated as one unbroken scroll and was later divided into 5. Yet others hold that there were 4 different sources, the Yahwist, Elohist, Priestly, and Deuteronomic.
- I'm concerned - what does "consecrate" or "redeem" every first-born mean? 'Consecrate' makes it sound like some sort of ritual baptism or rite of passage since they were born, like when a priest anoints the head of those being baptized. 'Redeem' makes it sound downright sacrificial.
- Also, it also seems like they only cared about the first-born males. What if a couples' first-born child was a girl? Does the girl not count, or do they? Do they only go for the first male, even if the male child has an older sister, or do they not do anything about any of the children if the first child is a girl?
- Okay, so it was super cool of God to give the Israelites a constant visual guide out of Egypt (Cloud by day, Fire by night) but did they have time to sleep? I hope so, or you're going to lose a lot of people on the journey from sheer exhaustion.
- The Ancient High Speed Chase is upon us. Pharaoh is still being an asshole, and thinks he can take the Israelites back just because they're camped out by the Red Sea. He shall see. #puns
- Moses divided the Red Sea, then let the Egyptians drown after the Israelites escape as God commanded. For God to add "no killing" to the 10 Commandments, He seems to have a blasé attitude about He Himself killing the very people He created.
- And then the Israelites sang a long song about the glory of God, and the death of the Egyptians, and their rescue. They then walked for 3 days with no water until God had Moses perform a small miracle of purifying water to drink, and they camped in Elim. 12 springs of water and 70 palm trees seems pretty exact.
Fun Fact: Exodus is Book 2 of 5 books that make up The Pentateuch, otherwise known as the Torah or Law. The 5 books are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (a name I can never hear without thinking about the musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber). As to the author of The Pentateuch, nobody really knows. Some hold that Moses wrote the five books, which originated as one unbroken scroll and was later divided into 5. Yet others hold that there were 4 different sources, the Yahwist, Elohist, Priestly, and Deuteronomic.
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