1 00:00:25,833 --> 00:00:28,791 Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in the fifth month 2 00:00:28,875 --> 00:00:31,166 of the seventh year of the king. 3 00:00:32,375 --> 00:00:35,708 He had begun his journey from Babylon on the first day 4 00:00:35,791 --> 00:00:38,916 of the first month and he arrived in Jerusalem 5 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,708 on the first day of the fifth month, 6 00:00:42,333 --> 00:00:46,458 for the gracious hand of his God was on him. 7 00:00:52,166 --> 00:00:56,166 For Ezra had devoted himself to the study and observance 8 00:00:56,250 --> 00:01:01,916 of the Law of the Lord and to teaching its decrees and laws in Israel. 9 00:01:04,875 --> 00:01:08,333 This is a copy of the letter King Artaxerxes 10 00:01:08,416 --> 00:01:12,125 had given to Ezra the priest, a teacher of the Law, 11 00:01:12,208 --> 00:01:15,125 a man learned in matters concerning the commands 12 00:01:15,208 --> 00:01:17,916 and decrees of the Lord for Israel. 13 00:01:20,833 --> 00:01:23,875 You are sent by the king and his seven advisers 14 00:01:23,958 --> 00:01:26,750 to inquire about Judah and Jerusalem 15 00:01:27,375 --> 00:01:32,375 with regard to the Law of your God, which is in your hand. 16 00:01:34,375 --> 00:01:40,291 From the days of our ancestors until now, our guilt has been great. 17 00:01:40,833 --> 00:01:42,166 Because of our sins, 18 00:01:42,250 --> 00:01:47,000 we and our kings and our priests have been subjected to the sword 19 00:01:47,083 --> 00:01:50,041 and captivity, to pillage and humiliation 20 00:01:50,125 --> 00:01:53,750 at the hand of foreign kings, as it is today. 21 00:01:53,833 --> 00:01:58,166 Lord, the God of Israel, you are righteous! 22 00:01:58,750 --> 00:02:01,333 We are left this day as a remnant. 23 00:02:01,416 --> 00:02:04,291 Here we are before you in our guilt, 24 00:02:04,375 --> 00:02:08,583 though because of it not one of us can stand in your presence. 25 00:02:28,041 --> 00:02:33,375 All the people came together as one in the square before the Water Gate. 26 00:02:34,541 --> 00:02:37,500 They told Ezra, the teacher of the law, 27 00:02:37,583 --> 00:02:43,125 to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded for Israel. 28 00:02:44,208 --> 00:02:46,791 So, on the first day of the seventh month 29 00:02:46,875 --> 00:02:50,833 Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, 30 00:02:50,916 --> 00:02:54,166 which was made up of men and women 31 00:02:54,250 --> 00:02:57,708 and all who were able to understand. 32 00:03:01,583 --> 00:03:03,500 Ezra opened the book. 33 00:03:03,583 --> 00:03:07,291 All the people could see him because he was standing above them. 34 00:03:08,791 --> 00:03:13,625 And as he opened it, the people all stood up. 35 00:03:15,625 --> 00:03:21,166 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. 36 00:03:21,250 --> 00:03:27,750 Now the Earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, 37 00:03:27,833 --> 00:03:31,916 and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 38 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:38,750 And God said, "Let there be light", and there was light. 39 00:03:41,291 --> 00:03:45,625 Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, 40 00:03:45,708 --> 00:03:49,791 in our likeness so that they may rule over the fish in the sea 41 00:03:49,875 --> 00:03:51,333 and the birds in the sky, 42 00:03:51,416 --> 00:03:54,833 over the livestock and all the wild animals 43 00:03:54,916 --> 00:03:57,875 and over all the creatures that move along the ground." 44 00:03:59,125 --> 00:04:01,833 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the Earth 45 00:04:01,916 --> 00:04:04,166 and no plant had yet sprung up, 46 00:04:04,250 --> 00:04:06,791 for the Lord God had not sent rain on the Earth 47 00:04:06,875 --> 00:04:09,083 and there was no one to work the ground. 48 00:04:10,458 --> 00:04:13,666 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground 49 00:04:13,750 --> 00:04:16,291 and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, 50 00:04:17,250 --> 00:04:22,458 and the man became a living being. 51 00:04:27,916 --> 00:04:33,083 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden, 52 00:04:33,166 --> 00:04:36,708 and there he put the man he had formed. 53 00:04:39,416 --> 00:04:43,666 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground 54 00:04:43,750 --> 00:04:47,333 trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. 55 00:04:53,833 --> 00:04:56,875 In the middle of the garden were the tree of life 56 00:04:56,958 --> 00:05:00,208 and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 57 00:05:02,250 --> 00:05:04,875 And the Lord God commanded the man, 58 00:05:04,958 --> 00:05:08,000 "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden, 59 00:05:08,083 --> 00:05:10,666 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge 60 00:05:10,750 --> 00:05:16,541 of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die." 61 00:05:24,208 --> 00:05:28,083 The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. 62 00:05:31,083 --> 00:05:33,750 I will make a helper suitable for him. 63 00:05:43,625 --> 00:05:49,041 Now the snake was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. 64 00:05:49,625 --> 00:05:52,500 He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 65 00:05:52,583 --> 00:05:56,041 "You must not eat from any tree in the garden"? 66 00:05:56,125 --> 00:06:00,000 You will not certainly die", the snake said to the woman. 67 00:06:00,083 --> 00:06:02,250 "For God knows that when you eat from it, 68 00:06:02,333 --> 00:06:07,708 your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. 69 00:06:13,875 --> 00:06:16,791 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food 70 00:06:16,875 --> 00:06:21,083 and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom... 71 00:06:21,708 --> 00:06:22,875 she took some... 72 00:06:35,083 --> 00:06:36,291 and ate it. 73 00:06:50,708 --> 00:06:53,291 She also gave some to her husband, who was with her 74 00:06:55,708 --> 00:06:57,083 and he ate it. 75 00:07:00,833 --> 00:07:04,083 Then the eyes of both of them were opened 76 00:07:04,166 --> 00:07:06,750 and they realized they were naked. 77 00:07:11,541 --> 00:07:16,666 So, they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. 78 00:07:18,083 --> 00:07:22,458 Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" 79 00:07:23,541 --> 00:07:28,125 The woman said, "The snake deceived me, and I ate." 80 00:07:28,791 --> 00:07:30,541 And the Lord God said, 81 00:07:30,625 --> 00:07:35,125 "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. 82 00:07:36,958 --> 00:07:39,500 He must not be allowed to reach out his hand 83 00:07:39,583 --> 00:07:43,958 and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever. 84 00:07:45,750 --> 00:07:49,875 So, the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden 85 00:07:49,958 --> 00:07:53,041 to work the ground from which he had been taken. 86 00:07:56,333 --> 00:07:57,916 The Lord saw how great the wickedness 87 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,041 of the human race had become on the Earth 88 00:08:00,125 --> 00:08:04,041 and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart 89 00:08:04,125 --> 00:08:05,791 was only evil all the time. 90 00:08:06,666 --> 00:08:10,500 The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the Earth, 91 00:08:11,458 --> 00:08:13,708 and his heart was deeply troubled. 92 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:19,291 So, the Lord said, 93 00:08:21,541 --> 00:08:24,791 "I will wipe from the face of the Earth the human race I have created 94 00:08:24,875 --> 00:08:29,166 and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures 95 00:08:29,250 --> 00:08:33,250 that move along the ground, for I regret that I have made them. 96 00:08:33,333 --> 00:08:35,250 I am going to bring floodwaters 97 00:08:35,333 --> 00:08:38,041 on the Earth to destroy all life under the heavens, 98 00:08:38,125 --> 00:08:40,791 every creature that has the breath of life in it. 99 00:08:40,875 --> 00:08:44,416 Everything on Earth will perish. 100 00:08:48,375 --> 00:08:53,166 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 101 00:08:53,250 --> 00:08:57,750 Every living thing on the face of the Earth was wiped out. 102 00:08:57,833 --> 00:09:02,125 People and animals and the creatures that move along the ground 103 00:09:02,208 --> 00:09:05,125 and the birds were wiped from the Earth. 104 00:09:05,708 --> 00:09:10,000 Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark. 105 00:09:10,500 --> 00:09:13,291 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 106 00:09:13,375 --> 00:09:19,375 "I establish my covenant with you. Never again will all life be destroyed 107 00:09:19,458 --> 00:09:21,041 by the waters of a flood. 108 00:09:22,416 --> 00:09:26,666 Never again will there be a flood to destroy the Earth." 109 00:09:29,875 --> 00:09:35,958 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. 110 00:09:37,708 --> 00:09:40,541 Ham was the father of Canaan. 111 00:09:41,416 --> 00:09:43,791 These were the three sons of Noah, 112 00:09:43,875 --> 00:09:47,708 and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole Earth. 113 00:09:48,958 --> 00:09:54,958 The sons of Shem... Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, 114 00:09:55,041 --> 00:09:57,333 Lud, and Aram. 115 00:09:58,458 --> 00:10:03,833 Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah the father of Eber. 116 00:10:05,333 --> 00:10:08,750 Eber, Peleg, Reu, 117 00:10:08,833 --> 00:10:13,583 Serug, Nahor, Terah 118 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:16,666 and Abram. 119 00:10:16,750 --> 00:10:19,166 That is... Abraham. 120 00:10:23,500 --> 00:10:27,125 The Lord had said to Abram, "Go from your country, 121 00:10:27,208 --> 00:10:31,375 your people and your father's household to the land I will show you. 122 00:10:32,083 --> 00:10:36,291 I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you. 123 00:10:36,375 --> 00:10:39,583 I will make your name great and you will be a blessing. 124 00:10:40,458 --> 00:10:44,291 I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you, 125 00:10:44,375 --> 00:10:48,625 I will curse and all peoples on Earth will be blessed through you." 126 00:10:55,291 --> 00:10:59,833 So, Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. 127 00:11:01,708 --> 00:11:06,416 Abram was 75 years old when he set out from Haran. 128 00:11:12,291 --> 00:11:15,208 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew, Lot, 129 00:11:15,291 --> 00:11:17,833 all the possessions they had accumulated 130 00:11:17,916 --> 00:11:20,541 and the people they had acquired in Haran... 131 00:11:22,333 --> 00:11:26,250 and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there. 132 00:11:38,666 --> 00:11:43,333 After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision. 133 00:11:46,458 --> 00:11:51,375 "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward." 134 00:11:51,833 --> 00:11:55,500 And Abram said, "You have given me no children. 135 00:11:55,583 --> 00:11:59,250 So, a servant in my household will be my heir." 136 00:12:03,291 --> 00:12:06,875 He took him outside and said, "Look up at the sky 137 00:12:06,958 --> 00:12:10,833 and count the stars, if indeed you can count them." 138 00:12:13,666 --> 00:12:17,583 Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be." 139 00:12:18,583 --> 00:12:20,333 Abram believed the Lord 140 00:12:20,416 --> 00:12:24,083 and he credited it to him as righteousness. 141 00:12:33,041 --> 00:12:37,083 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. 142 00:12:39,500 --> 00:12:44,333 But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar. 143 00:12:44,791 --> 00:12:49,791 So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai, his wife, 144 00:12:49,875 --> 00:12:54,000 took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband 145 00:12:54,083 --> 00:12:55,541 to be his wife. 146 00:13:00,958 --> 00:13:03,833 He slept with Hagar and she conceived. 147 00:13:08,125 --> 00:13:12,625 When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. 148 00:13:19,166 --> 00:13:20,916 Then Sarai said to Abram, 149 00:13:21,666 --> 00:13:24,500 "You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. 150 00:13:24,583 --> 00:13:28,958 I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, 151 00:13:29,041 --> 00:13:34,250 she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me." 152 00:13:34,333 --> 00:13:38,583 "Your slave is in your hands," Abram said. 153 00:13:38,666 --> 00:13:41,083 "Do with her whatever you think best." 154 00:13:45,458 --> 00:13:50,458 Then Sarai mistreated Hagar, so she fled from her. 155 00:13:54,625 --> 00:13:58,625 The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert. 156 00:14:00,125 --> 00:14:03,333 It was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. 157 00:14:08,833 --> 00:14:11,416 Then the angel of the Lord told her, 158 00:14:12,541 --> 00:14:15,500 "Go back to your mistress and submit to her." 159 00:14:15,583 --> 00:14:18,833 The angel added, "I will increase your descendants 160 00:14:18,916 --> 00:14:22,041 so much that they will be too numerous to count." 161 00:14:28,708 --> 00:14:31,708 So, Hagar bore Abram a son, 162 00:14:31,791 --> 00:14:35,791 and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. 163 00:14:47,416 --> 00:14:52,208 When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, 164 00:14:53,750 --> 00:14:55,916 "I am God Almighty. 165 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,791 Walk before me faithfully and be blameless. 166 00:14:59,875 --> 00:15:02,583 No longer will you be called Abram. 167 00:15:02,666 --> 00:15:08,458 Your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. 168 00:15:10,625 --> 00:15:13,916 I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant 169 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,916 between me and you and your descendants after you 170 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,208 for the generations to come, 171 00:15:19,291 --> 00:15:23,208 to be your God and the God of your descendants after you." 172 00:15:31,166 --> 00:15:35,875 God also said to Abraham, "As for Sarai, your wife, 173 00:15:35,958 --> 00:15:41,166 you are no longer to call her Sarai. Her name will be Sarah. 174 00:15:42,041 --> 00:15:46,500 I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. 175 00:15:46,583 --> 00:15:50,000 I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations, 176 00:15:50,083 --> 00:15:53,166 kings of peoples will come from her." 177 00:15:59,500 --> 00:16:03,291 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age. 178 00:16:03,916 --> 00:16:06,583 At the very time God had promised him. 179 00:16:14,875 --> 00:16:19,708 Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. 180 00:16:43,833 --> 00:16:46,583 The child grew and was weaned. 181 00:16:48,875 --> 00:16:53,291 And on the day Isaac was weaned, Abraham held a great feast. 182 00:16:57,125 --> 00:16:59,666 But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar 183 00:16:59,750 --> 00:17:02,875 the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking. 184 00:17:04,041 --> 00:17:08,458 And she said to Abraham, "Get rid of that slave woman and her son, 185 00:17:09,208 --> 00:17:13,958 for that woman's son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac." 186 00:17:16,500 --> 00:17:20,791 The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son. 187 00:17:23,791 --> 00:17:26,833 But God said to him, "Do not be so distressed 188 00:17:26,916 --> 00:17:29,291 about the boy and your slave woman. 189 00:17:31,416 --> 00:17:33,791 Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, 190 00:17:33,875 --> 00:17:37,625 because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned. 191 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:40,958 I will make the son of the slave 192 00:17:41,041 --> 00:17:45,208 into a nation also, because he is your offspring." 193 00:17:58,250 --> 00:18:02,458 Early the next morning, Abraham took some food and a skin of water 194 00:18:03,666 --> 00:18:05,083 and gave them to Hagar. 195 00:18:09,375 --> 00:18:12,125 He set them on her shoulders... 196 00:18:14,750 --> 00:18:17,000 and then sent her off with the boy. 197 00:18:25,708 --> 00:18:27,500 She went on her way... 198 00:18:31,625 --> 00:18:34,041 and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba. 199 00:18:45,375 --> 00:18:50,083 When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. 200 00:18:53,125 --> 00:18:56,708 Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away. 201 00:18:56,791 --> 00:19:00,250 For she thought, "'I cannot watch the boy die." 202 00:19:01,750 --> 00:19:05,625 And as she sat there nearby, she began to sob. 203 00:19:06,458 --> 00:19:09,916 God heard the boy crying and the angel of God 204 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,583 called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, 205 00:19:13,666 --> 00:19:16,750 "What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid. 206 00:19:16,833 --> 00:19:20,208 God has heard the boy crying as he lies there. 207 00:19:21,625 --> 00:19:25,000 Lift the boy up and take him by the hand. 208 00:19:25,083 --> 00:19:27,791 For I will make him into a great nation." 209 00:19:36,875 --> 00:19:40,791 Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. 210 00:19:47,958 --> 00:19:52,666 So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink. 211 00:19:55,541 --> 00:19:57,416 God was with the boy as he grew up. 212 00:19:59,958 --> 00:20:02,833 He lived in the desert and became an archer. 213 00:20:33,875 --> 00:20:39,541 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" 214 00:20:39,625 --> 00:20:42,041 "Here I am," he replied. 215 00:20:42,125 --> 00:20:45,500 Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, 216 00:20:45,583 --> 00:20:49,583 whom you love, Isaac, and go to the region of Moriah." 217 00:20:58,416 --> 00:21:04,125 "Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain that I will show you" 218 00:21:18,041 --> 00:21:23,208 Early the next morning, Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. 219 00:21:23,291 --> 00:21:27,458 He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. 220 00:21:30,833 --> 00:21:34,166 When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, 221 00:21:34,250 --> 00:21:38,041 he set out for the place God had told him about. 222 00:21:45,541 --> 00:21:50,458 On the third day, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 223 00:21:51,833 --> 00:21:55,041 He said to his servants, "Stay here with the donkey 224 00:21:55,125 --> 00:21:57,750 while I and the boy go over there. 225 00:21:57,833 --> 00:22:01,791 We will worship and then we will come back to you." 226 00:22:03,833 --> 00:22:06,500 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering 227 00:22:06,583 --> 00:22:08,916 and placed it on his son Isaac, 228 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,958 and he himself carried the fire and the knife. 229 00:22:18,125 --> 00:22:20,541 As the two of them went on together, 230 00:22:20,625 --> 00:22:24,833 Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, "Father?" 231 00:22:27,750 --> 00:22:30,541 "Yes, my son?" Abraham replied. 232 00:22:31,875 --> 00:22:35,250 "The fire and wood are here," Isaac said, 233 00:22:35,333 --> 00:22:37,833 "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?" 234 00:22:38,625 --> 00:22:44,666 Abraham answered "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." 235 00:22:45,958 --> 00:22:48,958 And the two of them went on together. 236 00:22:59,291 --> 00:23:01,875 When they reached the place God had told him about... 237 00:23:05,583 --> 00:23:08,958 Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. 238 00:23:27,791 --> 00:23:32,916 He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 239 00:23:36,791 --> 00:23:41,333 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 240 00:23:48,541 --> 00:23:54,208 But the Angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!" 241 00:23:55,166 --> 00:23:57,666 "Here I am." he replied. 242 00:23:58,583 --> 00:24:00,833 "Do not lay a hand on the boy", he said. 243 00:24:06,500 --> 00:24:08,500 "Do not do anything to him. 244 00:24:09,750 --> 00:24:12,291 Now I know that you fear God, 245 00:24:12,375 --> 00:24:16,833 because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son." 246 00:24:25,166 --> 00:24:31,541 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket, he saw a ram caught by its horns. 247 00:24:36,791 --> 00:24:40,458 He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it 248 00:24:40,541 --> 00:24:43,625 as a burnt offering instead of his son. 249 00:24:44,333 --> 00:24:47,708 The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time, 250 00:24:47,791 --> 00:24:52,333 and said, "I swear by myself," declares the Lord, "that because you 251 00:24:52,416 --> 00:24:57,083 have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 252 00:24:58,166 --> 00:25:01,500 I will surely bless you and make your descendants 253 00:25:01,583 --> 00:25:06,750 as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. 254 00:25:08,875 --> 00:25:13,041 Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies 255 00:25:13,125 --> 00:25:16,333 and through your offspring, all nations on Earth 256 00:25:16,416 --> 00:25:20,708 will be blessed, because you have obeyed me." 257 00:25:23,166 --> 00:25:27,125 Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac. 258 00:25:30,916 --> 00:25:36,125 Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, 259 00:25:36,208 --> 00:25:41,333 an old man and full of years, and he was gathered to his people. 260 00:25:43,458 --> 00:25:47,125 And Isaac was 40 years old when he married Rebekah... 261 00:25:50,625 --> 00:25:53,416 daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean from Paddan-aram 262 00:25:53,500 --> 00:25:55,333 and sister of Laban the Aramean. 263 00:25:58,416 --> 00:26:04,583 Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. 264 00:26:05,750 --> 00:26:11,083 The Lord answered his prayer and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. 265 00:26:13,333 --> 00:26:17,833 When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. 266 00:26:25,250 --> 00:26:29,875 The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, 267 00:26:30,750 --> 00:26:32,666 a man of the open country, 268 00:26:32,750 --> 00:26:37,666 while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents. 269 00:26:37,750 --> 00:26:39,291 God said to him, 270 00:26:40,541 --> 00:26:44,791 "Your name is Jacob but you will no longer be called Jacob, 271 00:26:46,875 --> 00:26:53,000 your name will be Israel." So, he named him Israel. 272 00:26:55,666 --> 00:26:59,875 And God said to him, "I am God Almighty, 273 00:26:59,958 --> 00:27:02,666 be fruitful and increase in number. 274 00:27:03,958 --> 00:27:07,416 A nation and a community of nations will come from you, 275 00:27:07,500 --> 00:27:10,958 and kings will be among your descendants." 276 00:27:19,041 --> 00:27:23,375 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, 277 00:27:23,458 --> 00:27:26,750 because he had been born to him in his old age... 278 00:27:29,583 --> 00:27:31,958 and he made an ornate robe for him. 279 00:27:36,250 --> 00:27:40,333 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, 280 00:27:40,416 --> 00:27:44,166 they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him. 281 00:27:51,583 --> 00:27:53,208 Joseph had a dream... 282 00:27:56,250 --> 00:28:00,000 and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. 283 00:28:00,416 --> 00:28:03,458 He said to them, "Listen to this dream I had. 284 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,875 We were binding sheaves of corn out in the field 285 00:28:09,208 --> 00:28:12,541 when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, 286 00:28:12,625 --> 00:28:17,500 while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it." 287 00:28:21,625 --> 00:28:23,166 His brothers said to him, 288 00:28:23,250 --> 00:28:27,416 "Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?" 289 00:28:28,666 --> 00:28:30,708 And they hated him all the more 290 00:28:30,791 --> 00:28:33,333 because of his dream and what he had said. 291 00:28:36,208 --> 00:28:38,416 Then he had another dream, 292 00:28:39,083 --> 00:28:42,541 and he told it to his brothers. "Listen," he said, 293 00:28:43,041 --> 00:28:47,541 "I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon 294 00:28:47,625 --> 00:28:50,541 and eleven stars were bowing down to me." 295 00:28:52,208 --> 00:28:57,916 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind. 296 00:29:01,791 --> 00:29:06,625 Now his brothers had gone to graze their father's flocks near Shechem, 297 00:29:06,708 --> 00:29:09,166 and Israel said to Joseph, 298 00:29:09,250 --> 00:29:13,500 "As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. 299 00:29:13,583 --> 00:29:16,208 Come, I am going to send you to them." 300 00:29:18,916 --> 00:29:20,500 "Very well," he replied. 301 00:29:21,833 --> 00:29:25,916 So he said to him, "Go and see if all is well with your brothers 302 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,083 and with the flocks, and bring word back to me." 303 00:29:30,833 --> 00:29:33,833 Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. 304 00:29:35,375 --> 00:29:39,458 So, Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan. 305 00:29:40,166 --> 00:29:42,000 But they saw him in the distance 306 00:29:42,083 --> 00:29:45,583 and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him. 307 00:29:47,250 --> 00:29:50,125 "Here comes that dreamer!" they said to each other. 308 00:29:50,541 --> 00:29:54,250 "Come now, let's kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns 309 00:29:54,333 --> 00:29:57,000 and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. 310 00:29:57,541 --> 00:29:59,833 Then we'll see what comes of his dreams." 311 00:30:01,125 --> 00:30:05,125 So, when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe. 312 00:30:05,208 --> 00:30:07,208 The ornate robe he was wearing. 313 00:30:07,750 --> 00:30:10,375 And they took him and threw him into the cistern. 314 00:30:11,708 --> 00:30:15,000 The cistern was empty. There was no water in it. 315 00:30:23,375 --> 00:30:25,291 As they sat down to eat their meal, 316 00:30:25,375 --> 00:30:29,291 they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. 317 00:30:32,208 --> 00:30:37,083 Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, 318 00:30:37,166 --> 00:30:40,375 and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt. 319 00:30:42,250 --> 00:30:44,083 Judah said to his brothers, 320 00:30:44,166 --> 00:30:48,416 "What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? 321 00:30:48,500 --> 00:30:51,250 Come, let's sell him to the Ishmaelites 322 00:30:51,333 --> 00:30:53,083 and not lay our hands on him. 323 00:30:53,166 --> 00:30:57,125 After all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood." 324 00:30:57,583 --> 00:30:59,125 His brothers agreed. 325 00:31:00,541 --> 00:31:03,166 So when the Midianite merchants came by, 326 00:31:03,250 --> 00:31:06,458 his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern. 327 00:31:08,500 --> 00:31:12,666 And sold him for 20 shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites... 328 00:31:15,625 --> 00:31:17,208 who took him to Egypt. 329 00:31:30,833 --> 00:31:33,625 They took the ornate robe back to their father and said, 330 00:31:34,541 --> 00:31:35,875 "We found this. 331 00:31:36,375 --> 00:31:39,166 Examine it to see whether it is your son's robe." 332 00:31:40,958 --> 00:31:45,750 He recognized it and said, "It is my son's robe. 333 00:31:45,833 --> 00:31:48,666 Some ferocious animal has devoured him. 334 00:31:50,625 --> 00:31:53,875 Joseph has surely been torn to pieces." 335 00:32:01,375 --> 00:32:04,333 All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, 336 00:32:04,416 --> 00:32:06,375 but he refused to be comforted. 337 00:32:06,458 --> 00:32:11,541 "No," he said, "I will continue to mourn until I join my son in the grave." 338 00:32:12,375 --> 00:32:14,291 So, his father wept for him. 339 00:32:16,041 --> 00:32:19,375 Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. 340 00:32:19,458 --> 00:32:22,875 Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh's officials, 341 00:32:22,958 --> 00:32:24,708 the captain of the guard, 342 00:32:24,791 --> 00:32:27,791 bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there. 343 00:32:29,625 --> 00:32:32,458 When his master saw that the Lord was with him 344 00:32:32,541 --> 00:32:36,166 and that the Lord gave him success in everything he did, 345 00:32:36,250 --> 00:32:39,958 Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. 346 00:32:42,958 --> 00:32:45,625 Potiphar put him in charge of his household, 347 00:32:45,708 --> 00:32:48,375 and he entrusted to his care everything he owned. 348 00:32:49,916 --> 00:32:54,208 So, Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph's care. 349 00:32:54,291 --> 00:32:55,750 With Joseph in charge, 350 00:32:55,833 --> 00:32:59,083 he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. 351 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,666 Now Joseph was well-built and handsome, 352 00:33:05,291 --> 00:33:07,833 and after a while his master's wife 353 00:33:07,916 --> 00:33:09,708 took notice of Joseph and said... 354 00:33:10,791 --> 00:33:12,208 "Come to bed with me." 355 00:33:13,250 --> 00:33:15,833 And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, 356 00:33:15,916 --> 00:33:20,416 he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her. 357 00:33:21,291 --> 00:33:24,791 One day he went into the house to attend to his duties, 358 00:33:24,875 --> 00:33:27,625 and none of the household servants was inside. 359 00:33:28,666 --> 00:33:31,916 She caught him by his cloak and said, "Come to bed with me!" 360 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,708 But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house. 361 00:33:36,333 --> 00:33:38,500 She called her household servants. "Look!" 362 00:33:38,583 --> 00:33:43,083 She said to them, "This Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! 363 00:33:43,166 --> 00:33:46,250 He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed." 364 00:33:47,791 --> 00:33:50,250 When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, 365 00:33:50,333 --> 00:33:55,083 "This is how your slave treated me," he burned with anger. 366 00:33:56,500 --> 00:34:00,416 Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, 367 00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:03,958 the place where the king's prisoners were confined. 368 00:34:18,541 --> 00:34:20,583 When two full years had passed, 369 00:34:22,125 --> 00:34:23,666 Pharaoh had a dream. 370 00:34:33,291 --> 00:34:36,875 In the morning, his mind was troubled, 371 00:34:36,958 --> 00:34:40,750 so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. 372 00:34:40,833 --> 00:34:45,000 Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him. 373 00:34:49,416 --> 00:34:52,625 Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, 374 00:34:52,708 --> 00:34:55,208 "Today, I am reminded of my shortcomings." 375 00:34:55,833 --> 00:34:58,833 Pharaoh was once angry with his servants, 376 00:34:58,916 --> 00:35:03,291 and he imprisoned me and the chief baker in the house of the captain of the guard. 377 00:35:03,791 --> 00:35:10,125 Each of us had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own. 378 00:35:10,208 --> 00:35:14,833 Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. 379 00:35:14,916 --> 00:35:18,416 We told him our dreams, and he interpreted them for us, 380 00:35:18,500 --> 00:35:22,250 giving each man the interpretation of his dream. 381 00:35:23,833 --> 00:35:28,250 And things turned out exactly as he interpreted them to us. 382 00:35:28,958 --> 00:35:33,791 I was restored to my position, and the other man was impaled. 383 00:35:37,583 --> 00:35:40,166 So, Pharaoh sent for Joseph... 384 00:35:46,041 --> 00:35:48,458 and he was quickly brought from the dungeon. 385 00:35:49,916 --> 00:35:53,625 When he had shaved and changed his clothes, he came before Pharaoh. 386 00:35:56,458 --> 00:35:58,458 Pharaoh said to Joseph, 387 00:35:58,541 --> 00:36:02,375 "I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. 388 00:36:02,458 --> 00:36:06,125 But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream, 389 00:36:06,208 --> 00:36:08,041 you can interpret it." 390 00:36:09,458 --> 00:36:11,250 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, 391 00:36:12,625 --> 00:36:16,041 "In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile, 392 00:36:16,125 --> 00:36:19,250 when out of the river there came up seven cows, 393 00:36:19,333 --> 00:36:24,083 fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds. 394 00:36:24,875 --> 00:36:30,583 After them, seven other cows came up. Scrawny and very ugly and lean. 395 00:36:30,666 --> 00:36:34,958 I had never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt. 396 00:36:38,250 --> 00:36:43,958 In my dream, I saw seven ears of corn, full and good, growing on a single stalk. 397 00:36:46,208 --> 00:36:49,083 After them, seven other ears sprouted. 398 00:36:49,166 --> 00:36:52,125 Withered and thin and scorched by the east wind. 399 00:36:53,541 --> 00:36:57,208 The thin heads of corn swallowed up the seven good ears. 400 00:36:59,750 --> 00:37:04,625 I told this to the magicians, but none of them could explain it to me." 401 00:37:10,083 --> 00:37:14,125 Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt, 402 00:37:14,208 --> 00:37:17,250 but seven years of famine will follow them. 403 00:37:17,333 --> 00:37:20,291 Then all the abundance in Egypt will be forgotten, 404 00:37:20,375 --> 00:37:23,166 and the famine will ravage the land. 405 00:37:28,500 --> 00:37:31,875 The reason the dream was given to Pharaoh in two forms 406 00:37:31,958 --> 00:37:38,458 is that the matter has been firmly decided by God, and God will do it soon. 407 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:47,708 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has made all this known to you, 408 00:37:47,791 --> 00:37:50,958 there is no one so discerning and wise as you." 409 00:37:51,041 --> 00:37:53,000 So Pharaoh said to Joseph, 410 00:37:53,750 --> 00:37:58,083 "I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt." 411 00:37:58,666 --> 00:38:02,291 Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger 412 00:38:02,375 --> 00:38:04,541 and put it on Joseph's finger. 413 00:38:04,625 --> 00:38:09,500 He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck. 414 00:38:19,375 --> 00:38:23,750 During the seven years of abundance, the land produced plentifully. 415 00:38:23,833 --> 00:38:28,916 Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea. 416 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,791 It was so much that he stopped keeping records 417 00:38:32,875 --> 00:38:34,875 because it was beyond measure. 418 00:38:35,625 --> 00:38:39,166 The seven years of abundance in Egypt came to an end, 419 00:38:39,250 --> 00:38:44,291 and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. 420 00:38:44,375 --> 00:38:46,583 There was famine in all the other lands, 421 00:38:46,666 --> 00:38:49,666 but in the whole land of Egypt there was food. 422 00:38:52,375 --> 00:38:57,666 When all Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried to Pharaoh for food. 423 00:38:57,750 --> 00:39:03,875 Then Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph and do what he tells you." 424 00:39:03,958 --> 00:39:08,000 And all the world came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, 425 00:39:08,083 --> 00:39:11,250 because the famine was severe everywhere. 426 00:39:14,958 --> 00:39:19,291 So, Israel's sons were among those who went to buy grain, 427 00:39:19,375 --> 00:39:22,125 for there was famine in the land of Canaan also. 428 00:39:23,666 --> 00:39:26,125 As soon as Joseph saw his brothers, 429 00:39:26,208 --> 00:39:30,208 he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger 430 00:39:30,291 --> 00:39:34,791 and spoke harshly to them. "Where do you come from?" he asked. 431 00:39:35,458 --> 00:39:39,041 "From the land of Canaan," they replied "to buy food." 432 00:39:40,083 --> 00:39:44,916 Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him. 433 00:39:46,041 --> 00:39:50,333 Then he remembered his dreams about them and said to them, 434 00:39:50,416 --> 00:39:55,375 "You are spies! You have come to see where our land is unprotected." 435 00:39:56,250 --> 00:40:00,541 "No, my Lord," they answered. "Your servants have come to buy food. 436 00:40:02,208 --> 00:40:07,833 We are all the sons of one man. Your servants are honest men, not spies." 437 00:40:14,041 --> 00:40:17,333 Joseph said to them, "It is just as I told you, 438 00:40:19,083 --> 00:40:20,500 you are spies! 439 00:40:21,833 --> 00:40:24,208 And this is how you will be tested. 440 00:40:24,291 --> 00:40:28,000 As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not leave this place 441 00:40:28,083 --> 00:40:30,291 unless your youngest brother comes here. 442 00:40:31,333 --> 00:40:35,500 If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, 443 00:40:35,583 --> 00:40:40,250 while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households. 444 00:40:40,333 --> 00:40:42,625 But you must bring your youngest brother to me, 445 00:40:42,708 --> 00:40:47,166 so that your words may be verified and that you may not die." 446 00:40:47,250 --> 00:40:49,500 This they proceeded to do. 447 00:40:49,583 --> 00:40:52,916 They did not realize that Joseph could understand them, 448 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,000 since he was using an interpreter. 449 00:41:04,416 --> 00:41:06,958 At the place where they stopped for the night, 450 00:41:07,041 --> 00:41:10,166 one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, 451 00:41:10,250 --> 00:41:12,666 and he saw his silver in the mouth of his sack. 452 00:41:13,583 --> 00:41:18,541 "My silver has been returned," he said to his brothers. "Here it is in my sack." 453 00:41:20,625 --> 00:41:23,833 Their hearts sank and they turned to each other trembling 454 00:41:23,916 --> 00:41:27,791 and said, "What is this that God has done to us?" 455 00:41:37,750 --> 00:41:40,875 When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, 456 00:41:40,958 --> 00:41:43,500 they told him all that had happened to them. 457 00:41:43,583 --> 00:41:48,458 They said, "The man who is lord over the land spoke harshly to us 458 00:41:48,541 --> 00:41:51,625 and treated us as though we were spying on the land." 459 00:41:51,708 --> 00:41:57,541 Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be, then do this, 460 00:41:58,833 --> 00:42:01,875 put some of the best products of the land in your bags 461 00:42:01,958 --> 00:42:04,291 and take them down to the man as a gift. 462 00:42:04,375 --> 00:42:08,583 A little balm and a little honey, some spices and myrrh, 463 00:42:08,666 --> 00:42:11,625 some pistachio nuts and almonds. 464 00:42:21,666 --> 00:42:25,291 Take your brother also and go back to the man at once. 465 00:42:25,375 --> 00:42:30,125 And may God Almighty grant you mercy before the man 466 00:42:30,208 --> 00:42:34,500 so that he will let your other brother and Benjamin come back with you. 467 00:42:34,916 --> 00:42:39,708 As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved." 468 00:42:42,541 --> 00:42:48,083 So, the men took the gifts and double the amount of silver, and Benjamin also. 469 00:42:50,166 --> 00:42:53,958 They hurried down to Egypt and presented themselves to Joseph. 470 00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:58,958 When Joseph came home, 471 00:42:59,041 --> 00:43:02,416 they presented to him the gifts they had brought into the house, 472 00:43:02,500 --> 00:43:05,541 and they bowed down before him to the ground. 473 00:43:06,208 --> 00:43:09,708 He asked them how they were, and then he said, 474 00:43:09,791 --> 00:43:15,041 "How is your aged father you told me about? Is he still living?" 475 00:43:16,250 --> 00:43:21,375 They replied "Your servant, our father, is still alive and well." 476 00:43:21,458 --> 00:43:25,083 And they bowed down, prostrating themselves before him. 477 00:43:25,166 --> 00:43:29,583 As he looked about and saw his brother, Benjamin, his own mother's son, 478 00:43:29,666 --> 00:43:34,166 he asked, "Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about?" 479 00:43:34,750 --> 00:43:38,458 And he said, "God be gracious to you, my son." 480 00:43:41,666 --> 00:43:45,916 Then Joseph said to his brothers, "Come close to me." 481 00:43:52,750 --> 00:43:56,458 When they had done so, he said, "I am your brother Joseph. 482 00:44:00,125 --> 00:44:02,041 The one you sold into Egypt. 483 00:44:06,375 --> 00:44:10,250 And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves 484 00:44:10,333 --> 00:44:14,208 for selling me here, because it was to save lives 485 00:44:14,291 --> 00:44:16,500 that God sent me ahead of you. 486 00:44:16,583 --> 00:44:20,041 For two years now, there has been famine in the land, 487 00:44:20,125 --> 00:44:24,083 and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping. 488 00:44:24,166 --> 00:44:28,250 But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on Earth 489 00:44:28,333 --> 00:44:32,208 and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 490 00:44:32,291 --> 00:44:36,291 So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. 491 00:44:36,375 --> 00:44:37,958 He made me father to Pharaoh, 492 00:44:38,041 --> 00:44:42,083 lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt. 493 00:44:43,041 --> 00:44:46,125 Now hurry back to my father and say to him, 494 00:44:46,208 --> 00:44:48,791 "This is what your son, Joseph, says. 495 00:44:48,875 --> 00:44:54,083 God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don't delay." 496 00:44:55,083 --> 00:44:58,875 So, Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt 497 00:44:58,958 --> 00:45:02,041 and gave them property in the best part of the land, 498 00:45:02,125 --> 00:45:05,958 the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh directed. 499 00:45:07,416 --> 00:45:11,541 Now the Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. 500 00:45:11,625 --> 00:45:16,291 They acquired property there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number. 501 00:45:17,875 --> 00:45:23,041 Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died. 502 00:45:25,083 --> 00:45:29,833 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. 503 00:45:30,958 --> 00:45:33,750 "Look," he said to his people, 504 00:45:33,833 --> 00:45:37,125 "the Israelites have become far too numerous for us." 505 00:45:37,208 --> 00:45:43,083 "Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous 506 00:45:43,166 --> 00:45:46,375 and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, 507 00:45:46,458 --> 00:45:49,250 fight against us and leave the country." 508 00:45:52,041 --> 00:45:56,500 So, they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, 509 00:45:56,583 --> 00:46:00,333 and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. 510 00:46:02,333 --> 00:46:06,750 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread. 511 00:46:06,833 --> 00:46:09,750 So, the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites 512 00:46:09,833 --> 00:46:11,625 and worked them ruthlessly. 513 00:46:14,375 --> 00:46:17,166 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people. 514 00:46:18,291 --> 00:46:21,791 "Every Hebrew boy that is born 515 00:46:21,875 --> 00:46:26,791 you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live." 516 00:46:29,500 --> 00:46:32,875 Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 517 00:46:32,958 --> 00:46:35,833 and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. 518 00:46:36,625 --> 00:46:42,666 When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. 519 00:46:46,166 --> 00:46:48,750 But when she could hide him no longer, 520 00:46:48,833 --> 00:46:53,458 she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. 521 00:46:54,833 --> 00:46:56,708 Then she placed the child in it 522 00:46:56,791 --> 00:46:59,625 and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. 523 00:47:04,708 --> 00:47:09,208 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him. 524 00:47:11,166 --> 00:47:14,541 Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, 525 00:47:14,625 --> 00:47:17,375 and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. 526 00:47:19,291 --> 00:47:21,958 She saw the basket among the reeds 527 00:47:22,041 --> 00:47:24,250 and sent her female slave to get it. 528 00:47:25,416 --> 00:47:28,125 She opened it and saw the baby. 529 00:47:28,958 --> 00:47:31,958 He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. 530 00:47:33,208 --> 00:47:35,791 "This is one of the Hebrew babies," she said. 531 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,083 Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, 532 00:47:46,916 --> 00:47:50,083 "Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women 533 00:47:50,166 --> 00:47:51,708 to nurse the baby for you?" 534 00:47:52,166 --> 00:47:54,708 "Yes, go," she answered. 535 00:47:55,250 --> 00:47:59,041 So, the girl went and got the baby's mother. 536 00:48:01,583 --> 00:48:06,791 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this baby and nurse him for me, 537 00:48:06,875 --> 00:48:08,458 and I will pay you." 538 00:48:09,250 --> 00:48:12,750 So the woman took the baby and nursed him. 539 00:48:14,666 --> 00:48:19,375 When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter 540 00:48:19,458 --> 00:48:21,041 and he became her son. 541 00:48:22,833 --> 00:48:29,250 She named him Moses, saying, "I drew him out of the water." 542 00:48:31,041 --> 00:48:33,916 One day, after Moses had grown up, 543 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:38,666 he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. 544 00:48:39,666 --> 00:48:43,875 He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 545 00:48:43,958 --> 00:48:47,833 Looking this way and that and seeing no one... 546 00:48:50,541 --> 00:48:53,750 he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 547 00:48:58,916 --> 00:49:02,625 When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, 548 00:49:02,708 --> 00:49:06,541 but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, 549 00:49:06,625 --> 00:49:08,333 where he sat down by a well. 550 00:49:09,541 --> 00:49:12,833 During that long period, the king of Egypt died. 551 00:49:14,083 --> 00:49:18,541 The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help, 552 00:49:18,625 --> 00:49:22,000 because of their slavery, went up to God. 553 00:49:22,666 --> 00:49:25,708 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant 554 00:49:25,791 --> 00:49:29,458 with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. 555 00:49:30,875 --> 00:49:35,291 So, God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them. 556 00:49:36,791 --> 00:49:42,208 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, 557 00:49:42,291 --> 00:49:45,500 and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness 558 00:49:45,583 --> 00:49:48,750 and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 559 00:49:54,625 --> 00:49:58,541 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire 560 00:49:58,625 --> 00:49:59,708 from within a bush. 561 00:50:00,166 --> 00:50:04,166 Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 562 00:50:18,250 --> 00:50:21,208 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, 563 00:50:21,291 --> 00:50:23,708 God called to him from within the bush, 564 00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:28,750 "Moses! Moses!" 565 00:50:29,500 --> 00:50:32,333 And Moses said, "Here I am." 566 00:50:34,875 --> 00:50:37,375 "Do not come any closer," God said. 567 00:50:38,458 --> 00:50:43,625 "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground." 568 00:50:51,625 --> 00:50:54,875 Then he said, "I am the God of your father, 569 00:50:54,958 --> 00:50:59,000 the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." 570 00:51:00,916 --> 00:51:03,791 At this, Moses hid his face, 571 00:51:04,541 --> 00:51:07,458 because he was afraid to look at God. 572 00:51:08,333 --> 00:51:12,875 The Lord said, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. 573 00:51:12,958 --> 00:51:16,958 I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, 574 00:51:17,041 --> 00:51:19,458 and I am concerned about their suffering. 575 00:51:22,833 --> 00:51:24,250 So, now, go. 576 00:51:25,375 --> 00:51:30,750 I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt." 577 00:51:32,583 --> 00:51:37,000 But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh 578 00:51:37,083 --> 00:51:40,208 and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?" 579 00:51:41,458 --> 00:51:45,375 Moses said to God, "Suppose I go to the Israelites 580 00:51:45,458 --> 00:51:49,458 and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' 581 00:51:51,416 --> 00:51:53,750 and they ask me, 'What is his name?' 582 00:51:56,541 --> 00:51:58,125 Then what shall I tell them?" 583 00:51:59,833 --> 00:52:03,916 God said to Moses, "I am who I am. 584 00:52:04,541 --> 00:52:07,416 This is what you are to say to the Israelites. 585 00:52:07,500 --> 00:52:10,375 'I am has sent me to you.'" 586 00:52:10,916 --> 00:52:14,125 Moses answered, "What if they do not believe me 587 00:52:14,208 --> 00:52:17,583 or listen to me and say, 'The Lord did not appear to you'?" 588 00:52:18,875 --> 00:52:22,708 Then the Lord said to him, "What is that in your hand?" 589 00:52:27,375 --> 00:52:29,416 "A staff," he replied. 590 00:52:31,666 --> 00:52:34,416 The Lord said, "Throw it on the ground." 591 00:52:38,166 --> 00:52:41,375 Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake... 592 00:52:45,333 --> 00:52:46,916 and he ran from it. 593 00:52:49,041 --> 00:52:50,625 Then the Lord said to him, 594 00:52:50,708 --> 00:52:53,791 "Reach out your hand and take it by the tail." 595 00:52:54,500 --> 00:52:58,666 So, Moses reached out and took hold of the snake 596 00:52:58,750 --> 00:53:01,791 and it turned back into a staff in his hand. 597 00:53:01,875 --> 00:53:05,625 "This," said the Lord, "is so that they may believe 598 00:53:05,708 --> 00:53:08,291 that the Lord, the God of their fathers, 599 00:53:08,375 --> 00:53:10,625 the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac 600 00:53:10,708 --> 00:53:13,500 and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you." 601 00:53:20,291 --> 00:53:24,333 Moses said to the Lord, "Pardon your servant, Lord. 602 00:53:24,416 --> 00:53:26,416 I have never been eloquent, 603 00:53:26,500 --> 00:53:30,250 neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. 604 00:53:30,333 --> 00:53:32,208 I am slow of speech and tongue." 605 00:53:33,833 --> 00:53:37,250 But Moses said, "Pardon your servant, Lord. 606 00:53:39,833 --> 00:53:41,708 Please send someone else." 607 00:53:44,291 --> 00:53:46,750 Then the Lord's anger burned against Moses 608 00:53:46,833 --> 00:53:50,708 and he said, "What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? 609 00:53:50,791 --> 00:53:52,500 I know he can speak well. 610 00:53:52,583 --> 00:53:56,375 He is already on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you. 611 00:54:00,041 --> 00:54:05,291 He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth 612 00:54:05,375 --> 00:54:08,041 and as if you were God to him." 613 00:54:18,500 --> 00:54:22,000 The Lord said to Moses, "When you return to Egypt, 614 00:54:22,083 --> 00:54:26,041 see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you 615 00:54:26,125 --> 00:54:27,458 the power to do. 616 00:54:28,625 --> 00:54:32,791 But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go." 617 00:54:41,291 --> 00:54:45,041 Afterward, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, 618 00:54:46,291 --> 00:54:49,250 "This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says, 619 00:54:51,708 --> 00:54:53,416 'Let my people go, 620 00:54:53,500 --> 00:54:57,166 so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.'" 621 00:54:57,250 --> 00:55:00,791 Pharaoh said, "Who is the Lord, that I should obey him 622 00:55:00,875 --> 00:55:06,291 and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord and I will not let Israel go." 623 00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:13,541 Then they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. 624 00:55:13,625 --> 00:55:18,041 Now let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices 625 00:55:18,125 --> 00:55:23,083 to the Lord our God, or he may strike us with plagues or with the sword." 626 00:55:24,833 --> 00:55:27,916 But the king of Egypt said, "Moses and Aaron, 627 00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,666 why are you taking the people away from their labor? 628 00:55:31,958 --> 00:55:33,708 Get back to your work!" 629 00:55:49,708 --> 00:55:50,958 That same day, 630 00:55:51,041 --> 00:55:53,250 Pharaoh gave this order to the slave drivers 631 00:55:53,333 --> 00:55:56,083 and overseers in charge of the people. 632 00:55:56,166 --> 00:55:58,166 "Make the work harder for the people 633 00:55:58,250 --> 00:56:02,166 so that they keep working and pay no attention to lies." 634 00:56:04,958 --> 00:56:09,583 Moses returned to the Lord and said, "Why, Lord, 635 00:56:09,666 --> 00:56:11,708 why have you brought trouble on this people? 636 00:56:11,791 --> 00:56:13,833 Is this why you sent me? 637 00:56:13,916 --> 00:56:16,958 Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, 638 00:56:17,041 --> 00:56:19,125 he has brought trouble on this people, 639 00:56:19,208 --> 00:56:21,666 and you have not rescued your people at all." 640 00:56:27,916 --> 00:56:31,375 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Now you will see 641 00:56:31,458 --> 00:56:33,541 what I will do to Pharaoh. 642 00:56:33,625 --> 00:56:36,125 Because of my mighty hand, he will let them go. 643 00:56:36,208 --> 00:56:40,375 Because of my mighty hand, he will drive them out of his country. 644 00:56:41,291 --> 00:56:44,791 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, 645 00:56:44,875 --> 00:56:48,583 whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant. 646 00:56:51,958 --> 00:56:54,125 But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, 647 00:56:54,208 --> 00:56:57,166 and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt, 648 00:56:57,250 --> 00:56:58,750 he will not listen to you. 649 00:57:05,041 --> 00:57:09,000 Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment, 650 00:57:09,083 --> 00:57:13,750 I will bring out my divisions, my people, the Israelites. 651 00:57:13,833 --> 00:57:16,583 And the Egyptians will know that I am the lord 652 00:57:16,666 --> 00:57:22,041 when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it." 653 00:57:26,750 --> 00:57:29,166 Now the Lord had said to Moses, 654 00:57:29,250 --> 00:57:32,666 "I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. 655 00:57:33,541 --> 00:57:37,375 After that, he will let you go from here, 656 00:57:37,458 --> 00:57:41,166 and when he does, he will drive you out completely. 657 00:57:42,250 --> 00:57:46,458 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month, 658 00:57:46,541 --> 00:57:52,000 each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household. 659 00:57:54,791 --> 00:57:58,875 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides 660 00:57:58,958 --> 00:58:03,333 and tops of the door frames of the houses where they eat the lambs. 661 00:58:07,208 --> 00:58:10,041 That same night, they are to eat the meat roasted 662 00:58:10,125 --> 00:58:15,125 over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. 663 00:58:18,500 --> 00:58:22,750 This is how you are to eat it. With your cloak tucked into your belt, 664 00:58:22,833 --> 00:58:25,750 your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. 665 00:58:26,958 --> 00:58:30,750 Eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover. 666 00:58:34,041 --> 00:58:37,833 On that same night, I will pass through Egypt 667 00:58:37,916 --> 00:58:43,208 and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals... 668 00:58:43,750 --> 00:58:48,875 and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 669 00:58:48,958 --> 00:58:53,125 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, 670 00:58:53,208 --> 00:58:56,291 and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. 671 00:58:57,750 --> 00:59:01,250 No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt." 672 00:59:04,333 --> 00:59:08,833 At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, 673 00:59:09,500 --> 00:59:12,458 from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, 674 00:59:12,541 --> 00:59:15,541 to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, 675 00:59:15,625 --> 00:59:18,375 and the firstborn of all the livestock as well. 676 00:59:19,958 --> 00:59:24,208 Pharaoh and all his officials got up during the night, 677 00:59:24,291 --> 00:59:26,625 and there was loud wailing in Egypt, 678 00:59:26,708 --> 00:59:30,208 for there was not a house without someone dead. 679 00:59:39,666 --> 00:59:43,333 During the night, Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, 680 00:59:43,416 --> 00:59:47,875 "Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go! 681 00:59:50,166 --> 00:59:52,416 Worship the Lord as you have requested. 682 00:59:53,833 --> 00:59:57,958 Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. 683 01:00:00,583 --> 01:00:02,541 And also bless me." 684 01:00:11,291 --> 01:00:17,291 Now, the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt was 430 years. 685 01:00:17,375 --> 01:00:21,416 At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, 686 01:00:21,500 --> 01:00:24,875 all the Lord's divisions left Egypt. 687 01:00:26,250 --> 01:00:28,541 Then Moses said to the people, 688 01:00:29,208 --> 01:00:32,791 "Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt, 689 01:00:32,875 --> 01:00:37,250 out of the land of slavery, because the Lord brought you out of it 690 01:00:37,333 --> 01:00:41,375 with a mighty hand. Eat nothing containing yeast." 691 01:00:43,958 --> 01:00:46,666 When Pharaoh let the people go, 692 01:00:46,750 --> 01:00:50,625 God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, 693 01:00:50,708 --> 01:00:52,875 though that was shorter. 694 01:00:52,958 --> 01:00:56,333 For God said, "If they face war, 695 01:00:56,416 --> 01:00:59,291 they might change their minds and return to Egypt." 696 01:01:00,083 --> 01:01:04,458 So, God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea. 697 01:01:05,541 --> 01:01:09,416 The Israelites went up out of Egypt ready for battle. 698 01:01:11,791 --> 01:01:15,708 By day, the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud 699 01:01:15,791 --> 01:01:17,708 to guide them on their way 700 01:01:17,791 --> 01:01:22,666 and by night, in a pillar of fire to give them light, 701 01:01:22,750 --> 01:01:25,333 so that they could travel by day or night. 702 01:01:33,583 --> 01:01:35,666 Then the Lord said to Moses, 703 01:01:35,750 --> 01:01:40,083 "Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp near Pi-Hahiroth, 704 01:01:40,833 --> 01:01:43,166 between Migdol and the sea. 705 01:01:44,750 --> 01:01:49,208 They are to camp by the sea, directly opposite Baal-Zephon." 706 01:01:51,208 --> 01:01:52,958 Pharaoh will think, 707 01:01:53,041 --> 01:01:56,250 "The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, 708 01:01:56,333 --> 01:01:57,541 hemmed in by the desert." 709 01:02:05,208 --> 01:02:08,416 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, 710 01:02:08,500 --> 01:02:12,583 Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, 711 01:02:12,666 --> 01:02:14,041 "What have we done? 712 01:02:14,125 --> 01:02:17,791 We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!" 713 01:02:18,458 --> 01:02:22,458 So, he had his chariot made ready and took his army with him. 714 01:02:22,541 --> 01:02:27,625 The Egyptians, all Pharaoh's horses and chariots, horsemen and troops. 715 01:02:27,708 --> 01:02:30,791 pursued the Israelites and overtook them 716 01:02:30,875 --> 01:02:33,750 as they camped by the sea near Pi-Hahiroth, 717 01:02:33,833 --> 01:02:35,958 opposite Baal-Zephon. 718 01:02:36,041 --> 01:02:39,791 As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, 719 01:02:39,875 --> 01:02:43,083 and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. 720 01:02:43,166 --> 01:02:46,333 They were terrified and crying out to the Lord. 721 01:02:46,416 --> 01:02:48,041 They said to Moses, 722 01:02:48,125 --> 01:02:50,500 "Was it because there were no graves in Egypt 723 01:02:50,583 --> 01:02:53,250 that you brought us to the desert to die? 724 01:02:53,333 --> 01:02:56,875 What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? 725 01:02:56,958 --> 01:02:58,541 Didn't we say to you in Egypt, 726 01:02:58,625 --> 01:03:02,541 'Leave us alone, let us serve the Egyptians'? 727 01:03:02,625 --> 01:03:08,041 It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!" 728 01:03:08,125 --> 01:03:11,458 Moses answered the people, "Do not be afraid. 729 01:03:11,541 --> 01:03:14,083 Stand firm and you will see the deliverance 730 01:03:14,166 --> 01:03:16,208 the Lord will bring you today. 731 01:03:16,291 --> 01:03:20,458 The Egyptians you see today, you will never see again. 732 01:03:20,541 --> 01:03:25,625 The Lord will fight for you, you need only to be still." 733 01:03:35,416 --> 01:03:38,208 Then the Lord said to Moses, 734 01:03:38,291 --> 01:03:42,666 "Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. 735 01:03:42,750 --> 01:03:45,541 Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea 736 01:03:45,625 --> 01:03:50,166 to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground." 737 01:03:50,250 --> 01:03:54,041 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, 738 01:03:55,708 --> 01:03:59,333 and all that night, the Lord drove the sea back 739 01:03:59,416 --> 01:04:03,041 with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. 740 01:04:03,125 --> 01:04:04,708 The waters were divided, 741 01:04:04,791 --> 01:04:08,791 and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, 742 01:04:08,875 --> 01:04:12,625 with a wall of water on their right and on their left. 743 01:04:19,291 --> 01:04:21,750 The Egyptians pursued them, 744 01:04:21,833 --> 01:04:25,833 and all Pharaoh's horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea. 745 01:04:35,708 --> 01:04:37,666 Then the Lord said to Moses, 746 01:04:38,500 --> 01:04:41,166 "Stretch out your hand over the sea 747 01:04:41,250 --> 01:04:43,708 so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians 748 01:04:43,791 --> 01:04:45,500 and their chariots and horsemen." 749 01:04:47,041 --> 01:04:50,583 The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen. 750 01:04:50,666 --> 01:04:54,791 The entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea. 751 01:04:54,875 --> 01:04:58,500 Not one of them survived. 752 01:05:00,875 --> 01:05:06,041 That day, the Lord saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, 753 01:05:06,125 --> 01:05:09,583 and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore. 754 01:05:10,750 --> 01:05:12,541 And when the Israelites saw 755 01:05:12,625 --> 01:05:16,250 the mighty hand of the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, 756 01:05:16,333 --> 01:05:19,750 the people feared the Lord and put their trust in him. 757 01:05:21,125 --> 01:05:23,125 And in Moses, his servant. 758 01:05:26,416 --> 01:05:28,166 The whole Israelite community 759 01:05:28,250 --> 01:05:31,750 set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, 760 01:05:31,833 --> 01:05:34,416 which is between Elim and Sinai, 761 01:05:34,500 --> 01:05:39,916 on the 15th day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. 762 01:05:41,041 --> 01:05:45,541 In the desert, the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. 763 01:05:45,625 --> 01:05:47,750 The Israelites said to them, 764 01:05:47,833 --> 01:05:50,916 "If only we had died by the Lord's hand in Egypt! 765 01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:55,208 There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, 766 01:05:55,291 --> 01:05:57,875 but you have brought us out into this desert 767 01:05:57,958 --> 01:06:00,333 to starve this entire assembly to death." 768 01:06:01,833 --> 01:06:05,583 So, Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, 769 01:06:05,666 --> 01:06:10,416 "In the evening, you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of Egypt, 770 01:06:10,500 --> 01:06:13,666 and in the morning, you will see the glory of the Lord, 771 01:06:13,750 --> 01:06:16,625 because he has heard your grumbling against him. 772 01:06:16,708 --> 01:06:19,750 Who are we, that you should grumble against us?" 773 01:06:20,583 --> 01:06:23,875 Moses also said, "You will know that it was the Lord 774 01:06:23,958 --> 01:06:26,166 when he gives you meat to eat in the evening 775 01:06:26,250 --> 01:06:28,750 and all the bread you want in the morning, 776 01:06:28,833 --> 01:06:31,250 because he has heard your grumbling against him. 777 01:06:32,041 --> 01:06:37,125 Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the Lord." 778 01:06:54,208 --> 01:06:58,583 That evening quail came and covered the camp. 779 01:07:03,041 --> 01:07:07,250 And in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. 780 01:07:07,333 --> 01:07:09,083 When the dew was gone, 781 01:07:09,166 --> 01:07:13,916 thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. 782 01:07:15,583 --> 01:07:18,750 When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, 783 01:07:18,833 --> 01:07:22,458 "What is it?" For they did not know what it was. 784 01:07:26,625 --> 01:07:28,208 Moses said to them... 785 01:07:30,166 --> 01:07:33,291 "It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat. 786 01:07:40,708 --> 01:07:43,041 This is what the Lord has commanded. 787 01:07:43,125 --> 01:07:46,875 Everyone is to gather as much as they need. 788 01:07:46,958 --> 01:07:49,791 Take an omer for each person you have in your tent." 789 01:07:52,083 --> 01:07:56,916 The Israelites did as they were told, some gathered much, some little. 790 01:08:14,125 --> 01:08:17,875 The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, 791 01:08:17,958 --> 01:08:21,833 traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. 792 01:08:24,958 --> 01:08:29,291 They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 793 01:08:30,500 --> 01:08:34,875 So, they quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water to drink." 794 01:08:35,625 --> 01:08:38,375 Moses replied, "Why do you quarrel with me? 795 01:08:38,458 --> 01:08:40,416 Why do you put the Lord to the test?" 796 01:08:41,666 --> 01:08:44,625 But the people were thirsty for water there, 797 01:08:44,708 --> 01:08:46,666 and they grumbled against Moses. 798 01:08:46,750 --> 01:08:49,666 They said, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt 799 01:08:49,750 --> 01:08:53,583 to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?" 800 01:08:58,333 --> 01:09:00,583 Then Moses cried out to the Lord, 801 01:09:00,666 --> 01:09:04,833 "What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me." 802 01:09:05,875 --> 01:09:10,750 The Lord answered Moses, "Go out in front of the people. 803 01:09:10,833 --> 01:09:13,708 Take with you some of the elders of Israel 804 01:09:13,791 --> 01:09:20,416 and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 805 01:09:31,333 --> 01:09:34,250 I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. 806 01:09:35,708 --> 01:09:36,875 Strike the rock... 807 01:09:38,708 --> 01:09:42,666 and water will come out of it for the people to drink." 808 01:09:44,625 --> 01:09:48,125 So, Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. 809 01:10:05,333 --> 01:10:07,875 After they set out from Rephidim, 810 01:10:07,958 --> 01:10:11,875 they entered the Desert of Sinai, and Israel camped there in the desert 811 01:10:11,958 --> 01:10:13,625 in front of the mountain. 812 01:10:14,833 --> 01:10:18,750 On the morning of the third day, there was thunder and lightning, 813 01:10:18,833 --> 01:10:21,083 with a thick cloud over the mountain... 814 01:10:23,666 --> 01:10:26,041 and a very loud trumpet blast. 815 01:10:26,125 --> 01:10:28,000 Everyone in the camp trembled. 816 01:10:31,666 --> 01:10:34,291 The Lord descended to the top of Mount Sinai 817 01:10:34,375 --> 01:10:37,250 and called Moses to the top of the mountain. 818 01:10:37,333 --> 01:10:39,708 So, Moses went up. 819 01:10:40,875 --> 01:10:42,875 And God spoke all these words. 820 01:10:44,333 --> 01:10:47,583 "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, 821 01:10:47,666 --> 01:10:49,458 out of the land of slavery. 822 01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:52,833 You shall have no other gods before me. 823 01:10:55,375 --> 01:10:58,208 You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything 824 01:10:58,291 --> 01:11:02,583 in heaven above or on the Earth beneath or in the waters below. 825 01:11:05,291 --> 01:11:08,208 You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, 826 01:11:08,291 --> 01:11:13,125 for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. 827 01:11:15,583 --> 01:11:18,333 Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 828 01:11:20,083 --> 01:11:22,291 Honor your father and your mother, 829 01:11:22,375 --> 01:11:26,125 so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. 830 01:11:46,583 --> 01:11:48,250 You shall not murder. 831 01:11:50,250 --> 01:11:51,833 You shall not commit adultery. 832 01:11:54,750 --> 01:11:56,250 You shall not steal. 833 01:11:57,083 --> 01:12:00,250 You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. 834 01:12:00,333 --> 01:12:02,708 You shall not covet your neighbor's house. 835 01:12:03,625 --> 01:12:08,125 You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male or female servant, 836 01:12:08,208 --> 01:12:11,541 his ox or donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor." 837 01:12:14,416 --> 01:12:17,041 Then the Lord said to Moses, 838 01:12:18,375 --> 01:12:20,041 "Tell the Israelites this. 839 01:12:21,125 --> 01:12:25,083 'You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven. 840 01:12:25,750 --> 01:12:28,750 Do not make any gods to be alongside me. 841 01:12:28,833 --> 01:12:33,541 Do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods of gold'." 842 01:12:37,291 --> 01:12:40,541 When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, 843 01:12:40,625 --> 01:12:43,750 he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, 844 01:12:43,833 --> 01:12:47,833 the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God. 845 01:12:54,708 --> 01:12:59,125 When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, 846 01:12:59,208 --> 01:13:05,458 they gathered around Aaron and said, "Come, make us gods who will go before us. 847 01:13:05,916 --> 01:13:09,833 As for this fellow, Moses, who brought us up out of Egypt, 848 01:13:09,916 --> 01:13:11,791 we don't know what has happened to him." 849 01:13:13,916 --> 01:13:15,958 Then the Lord said to Moses, 850 01:13:16,041 --> 01:13:21,333 "Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, 851 01:13:21,416 --> 01:13:22,958 have become corrupt. 852 01:13:24,541 --> 01:13:27,708 They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them 853 01:13:27,791 --> 01:13:31,791 and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. 854 01:13:31,875 --> 01:13:35,708 They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, 855 01:13:35,791 --> 01:13:40,000 'These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt'." 856 01:13:42,541 --> 01:13:45,625 When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, 857 01:13:45,708 --> 01:13:49,333 he said to Moses, "There is the sound of war in the camp." 858 01:13:50,333 --> 01:13:54,333 Moses replied, "It is not the sound of victory, 859 01:13:54,416 --> 01:13:56,708 it is not the sound of defeat. 860 01:13:56,791 --> 01:13:59,000 It is the sound of singing that I hear." 861 01:14:07,916 --> 01:14:11,541 When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, 862 01:14:11,625 --> 01:14:13,250 his anger burned 863 01:14:13,333 --> 01:14:17,000 and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces 864 01:14:17,083 --> 01:14:18,541 at the foot of the mountain. 865 01:14:33,958 --> 01:14:37,500 He said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, 866 01:14:37,583 --> 01:14:40,416 that you led them into such great sin?" 867 01:14:58,458 --> 01:15:01,333 So, Moses went back to the Lord and said... 868 01:15:03,666 --> 01:15:06,500 "Oh, what a great sin these people have committed. 869 01:15:07,791 --> 01:15:10,375 They have made themselves gods of gold. 870 01:15:12,250 --> 01:15:17,041 But now, please forgive their sin, but if not, 871 01:15:17,125 --> 01:15:19,500 then blot me out of the book you have written." 872 01:15:20,708 --> 01:15:23,166 The Lord replied to Moses, 873 01:15:23,250 --> 01:15:27,250 "Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book." 874 01:15:30,291 --> 01:15:32,458 Moses said to the Lord, 875 01:15:32,541 --> 01:15:35,208 "You have been telling me, 'Lead these people,' 876 01:15:36,541 --> 01:15:40,000 but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. 877 01:15:41,666 --> 01:15:45,708 You have said, "I know you by name and you have found favor with me." 878 01:15:47,750 --> 01:15:50,583 If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways 879 01:15:50,666 --> 01:15:54,666 so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. 880 01:15:56,791 --> 01:16:00,041 Remember that this nation is your people." 881 01:16:02,083 --> 01:16:03,875 The Lord said to Moses, 882 01:16:04,500 --> 01:16:07,833 "Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, 883 01:16:08,500 --> 01:16:12,416 and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, 884 01:16:12,500 --> 01:16:13,708 which you broke." 885 01:16:14,583 --> 01:16:16,625 Then the Lord said, 886 01:16:16,708 --> 01:16:19,333 "I am making a covenant with you. 887 01:16:20,416 --> 01:16:22,333 Before all your people, 888 01:16:22,416 --> 01:16:26,916 I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. 889 01:16:29,833 --> 01:16:33,958 The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, 890 01:16:34,041 --> 01:16:36,250 the Lord, will do for you." 891 01:16:53,958 --> 01:16:56,458 Moses assembled the whole Israelite community 892 01:16:56,541 --> 01:17:00,625 and said to them, "These are the things the Lord has commanded you to do. 893 01:17:01,375 --> 01:17:03,083 All who are skilled among you 894 01:17:03,541 --> 01:17:07,041 are to come and make everything the Lord has commanded. 895 01:17:07,125 --> 01:17:10,291 The tabernacle with its tent and its covering, 896 01:17:10,375 --> 01:17:15,250 clasps, frames, crossbars, posts and bases. 897 01:17:17,333 --> 01:17:20,750 The ark with its poles and the atonement cover 898 01:17:20,833 --> 01:17:22,666 and the curtain that shields it. 899 01:17:23,666 --> 01:17:27,291 The table with its poles and all its articles 900 01:17:27,375 --> 01:17:29,625 and the bread of the Presence. 901 01:17:30,125 --> 01:17:32,375 The lampstand that is for light 902 01:17:32,458 --> 01:17:36,416 with its accessories, lamps and oil for the light. 903 01:17:39,250 --> 01:17:42,125 The altar of incense with its poles, 904 01:17:42,208 --> 01:17:45,833 the anointing oil and the fragrant incense. 905 01:17:48,083 --> 01:17:51,541 The curtain for the doorway at the entrance to the tabernacle. 906 01:17:55,458 --> 01:17:58,875 The altar of burnt offering with its bronze grating, 907 01:17:58,958 --> 01:18:01,875 its poles and all its utensils. 908 01:18:03,250 --> 01:18:05,500 The bronze basin with its stand." 909 01:18:09,541 --> 01:18:14,666 The Israelites had done all the work just as the Lord had commanded Moses. 910 01:18:15,791 --> 01:18:18,041 Moses inspected the work... 911 01:18:20,583 --> 01:18:24,791 and saw that they had done it, just as the Lord had commanded. 912 01:18:32,791 --> 01:18:34,333 So, Moses blessed them. 913 01:18:37,166 --> 01:18:40,625 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, 914 01:18:40,708 --> 01:18:44,041 and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 915 01:18:48,458 --> 01:18:53,333 So, they set out from the mountain of the Lord and traveled for three days. 916 01:18:53,416 --> 01:18:56,375 The ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them 917 01:18:56,458 --> 01:19:00,000 during those three days to find them a place to rest. 918 01:19:06,500 --> 01:19:08,125 The Lord said to Moses, 919 01:19:08,208 --> 01:19:11,375 "Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, 920 01:19:11,458 --> 01:19:13,666 which I am giving to the Israelites. 921 01:19:13,750 --> 01:19:17,916 From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders." 922 01:19:19,250 --> 01:19:22,500 When Moses sent them to explore Canaan, he said, 923 01:19:22,583 --> 01:19:26,541 "Go up through the Negev and on into the hill country. 924 01:19:26,625 --> 01:19:30,208 See what the land is like and whether the people who live there 925 01:19:30,291 --> 01:19:33,916 are strong or weak, few or many. 926 01:19:35,250 --> 01:19:41,000 How is the soil? Is it fertile or poor? Are there trees in it or not? 927 01:19:42,375 --> 01:19:46,000 Do your best to bring back some of the fruit of the land." 928 01:20:03,333 --> 01:20:07,125 At the end of 40 days, they returned from exploring the land. 929 01:20:08,541 --> 01:20:10,625 They came back to Moses and Aaron 930 01:20:10,708 --> 01:20:15,000 and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. 931 01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:17,500 There they reported to them 932 01:20:17,583 --> 01:20:21,166 and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land. 933 01:20:21,250 --> 01:20:23,125 They gave Moses this account, 934 01:20:23,875 --> 01:20:26,541 "We went into the land to which you sent us, 935 01:20:26,625 --> 01:20:30,333 and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit." 936 01:20:35,416 --> 01:20:38,875 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, 937 01:20:39,875 --> 01:20:44,250 "We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it." 938 01:20:46,583 --> 01:20:49,166 But the men who had gone up with him said, 939 01:20:49,250 --> 01:20:53,166 "We can't attack those people. They are stronger than we are." 940 01:20:53,250 --> 01:20:55,500 And they spread among the Israelites 941 01:20:55,583 --> 01:20:58,708 a bad report about the land they had explored. 942 01:20:58,791 --> 01:21:03,458 They said, "The land we explored devours those living in it. 943 01:21:03,541 --> 01:21:07,375 All the people we saw there are of great size." 944 01:21:16,083 --> 01:21:18,833 That night, all the members of the community 945 01:21:18,916 --> 01:21:21,333 raised their voices and wept aloud. 946 01:21:21,416 --> 01:21:24,375 All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, 947 01:21:24,458 --> 01:21:26,708 and the whole assembly said to them, 948 01:21:26,791 --> 01:21:30,708 "If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this wilderness! 949 01:21:30,791 --> 01:21:35,416 Why is the Lord bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? 950 01:21:35,500 --> 01:21:39,000 Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. 951 01:21:39,083 --> 01:21:42,250 Wouldn't it be better for us to go back to Egypt?" 952 01:21:42,333 --> 01:21:47,958 And they said to each other, "We should choose a leader and go back to Egypt." 953 01:21:48,041 --> 01:21:50,041 Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown 954 01:21:50,125 --> 01:21:52,791 in front of the whole Israelite assembly gathered there. 955 01:21:53,916 --> 01:21:57,333 But the whole assembly talked about stoning them. 956 01:21:59,041 --> 01:22:00,750 Then the glory of the Lord 957 01:22:00,833 --> 01:22:04,041 appeared at the tent of meeting to all the Israelites. 958 01:22:21,666 --> 01:22:23,750 The Lord said to Moses, 959 01:22:23,833 --> 01:22:27,458 "How long will these people treat me with contempt? 960 01:22:27,541 --> 01:22:30,666 How long will they refuse to believe in me, 961 01:22:30,750 --> 01:22:33,791 in spite of all the signs I have performed among them? 962 01:22:34,750 --> 01:22:39,041 I will strike them down with a plague and destroy them, 963 01:22:39,125 --> 01:22:44,083 but I will make you into a nation greater and stronger than they." 964 01:22:45,541 --> 01:22:50,916 Moses said to the Lord, "Then the Egyptians will hear about it. 965 01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:55,166 By your power, you brought these people up from among them. 966 01:22:55,250 --> 01:22:59,250 If you put all these people to death, leaving none alive, 967 01:22:59,333 --> 01:23:02,583 the nations, who have heard this report about you, will say, 968 01:23:02,666 --> 01:23:05,708 'The Lord was not able to bring these people into the land 969 01:23:05,791 --> 01:23:10,083 he promised them on oath, so, he slaughtered them in the wilderness.' 970 01:23:14,500 --> 01:23:19,416 In accordance with your great love, forgive the sin of these people, 971 01:23:19,500 --> 01:23:24,958 just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now." 972 01:23:27,916 --> 01:23:29,541 The Lord replied... 973 01:23:30,583 --> 01:23:33,125 "I have forgiven them, as you asked. 974 01:23:40,875 --> 01:23:43,208 Nevertheless, as surely as I live 975 01:23:43,291 --> 01:23:46,833 and as surely as the glory of the Lord fills the whole Earth, 976 01:23:47,666 --> 01:23:51,625 not one of those who saw my glory and the signs I performed in Egypt 977 01:23:51,708 --> 01:23:55,916 and in the wilderness but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times. 978 01:23:56,000 --> 01:24:01,708 Not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to their ancestors. 979 01:24:02,750 --> 01:24:07,250 No one who has treated me with contempt will ever see it." 980 01:24:11,875 --> 01:24:15,708 The Lord's anger burned against Israel and he made them wander in the wilderness 981 01:24:15,791 --> 01:24:17,166 for 40 years, 982 01:24:17,250 --> 01:24:22,708 until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone. 983 01:24:29,041 --> 01:24:32,875 In the 40th year, on the first day of the eleventh month, 984 01:24:32,958 --> 01:24:35,375 Moses proclaimed to the Israelites 985 01:24:35,458 --> 01:24:38,833 all that the Lord had commanded him concerning them. 986 01:24:40,875 --> 01:24:46,000 "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 987 01:24:47,791 --> 01:24:51,708 Love the Lord your God with all your heart 988 01:24:51,791 --> 01:24:56,416 and with all your soul and with all your strength. 989 01:25:05,583 --> 01:25:08,291 Remember how the Lord your God 990 01:25:08,375 --> 01:25:11,958 led you all the way in the wilderness these 40 years, 991 01:25:15,583 --> 01:25:21,625 to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, 992 01:25:22,833 --> 01:25:25,791 whether or not you would keep his commands. 993 01:25:30,250 --> 01:25:33,166 Observe the commands of the Lord your God, 994 01:25:33,250 --> 01:25:36,291 walking in obedience to him and revering him. 995 01:25:40,166 --> 01:25:43,750 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land. 996 01:25:43,833 --> 01:25:46,083 A land with brooks, streams, 997 01:25:46,166 --> 01:25:50,458 and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills. 998 01:25:51,333 --> 01:25:57,291 The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, 999 01:25:57,375 --> 01:25:59,583 from your fellow Israelites. 1000 01:26:00,333 --> 01:26:02,041 You must listen to him. 1001 01:26:06,791 --> 01:26:12,416 You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the Lord your God, 1002 01:26:12,500 --> 01:26:16,000 a covenant the Lord is making with you this day 1003 01:26:16,083 --> 01:26:21,708 and sealing with an oath, to confirm you this day as his people... 1004 01:26:23,833 --> 01:26:26,916 that he may be your God as he promised you... 1005 01:26:29,250 --> 01:26:32,666 and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, 1006 01:26:32,750 --> 01:26:34,375 Isaac 1007 01:26:34,458 --> 01:26:35,833 and Jacob. 1008 01:26:43,291 --> 01:26:47,041 For I command you today to love the Lord your God, 1009 01:26:47,125 --> 01:26:49,583 to walk in obedience to him, 1010 01:26:49,666 --> 01:26:53,166 and to keep his commands, decrees and laws. 1011 01:26:54,666 --> 01:26:58,708 Then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God 1012 01:26:58,791 --> 01:27:02,416 will bless you in the land you are entering to possess. 1013 01:27:02,500 --> 01:27:06,875 But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, 1014 01:27:06,958 --> 01:27:08,333 and if you are drawn away 1015 01:27:08,416 --> 01:27:11,583 to bow down to other gods and worship them, 1016 01:27:11,666 --> 01:27:17,000 I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. 1017 01:27:17,083 --> 01:27:20,125 You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan 1018 01:27:20,208 --> 01:27:21,833 to enter and possess. 1019 01:27:32,125 --> 01:27:37,083 I am now 120 years old and I am no longer able to lead you. 1020 01:27:38,666 --> 01:27:40,250 The Lord has said to me, 1021 01:27:41,041 --> 01:27:43,416 'You shall not cross the Jordan'." 1022 01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:53,000 Then Moses summoned Joshua 1023 01:27:53,083 --> 01:27:55,208 and said to him in the presence of all Israel... 1024 01:28:00,541 --> 01:28:03,833 "Be strong and courageous, 1025 01:28:03,916 --> 01:28:06,750 for you must go with this people into the land that the Lord 1026 01:28:06,833 --> 01:28:09,375 swore to their ancestors to give them, 1027 01:28:09,458 --> 01:28:13,125 and you must divide it among them as their inheritance. 1028 01:28:15,166 --> 01:28:19,875 The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you. 1029 01:28:19,958 --> 01:28:23,416 He will never leave you nor forsake you. 1030 01:28:29,583 --> 01:28:33,375 Do not be afraid. Do not be discouraged." 1031 01:28:41,000 --> 01:28:44,458 Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab 1032 01:28:44,541 --> 01:28:47,375 to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. 1033 01:28:53,541 --> 01:28:57,416 There the Lord showed him the whole land, from Gilead to Dan. 1034 01:29:02,125 --> 01:29:03,833 Then the Lord said to him, 1035 01:29:05,291 --> 01:29:08,291 "This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, 1036 01:29:08,375 --> 01:29:13,458 Isaac and Jacob when I said, 'I will give it to your descendants.' 1037 01:29:16,750 --> 01:29:19,000 I have let you see it with your eyes, 1038 01:29:20,208 --> 01:29:22,375 but you will not cross over into it." 1039 01:29:25,750 --> 01:29:32,291 And Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in Moab, as the Lord had said. 1040 01:29:33,125 --> 01:29:37,125 He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, 1041 01:29:38,750 --> 01:29:43,041 but to this day, no one knows where his grave is. 1042 01:29:45,500 --> 01:29:50,500 Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, 1043 01:29:50,583 --> 01:29:52,875 whom the Lord knew face-to-face, 1044 01:29:52,958 --> 01:29:56,541 who did all those signs and wonders the Lord sent him to do in Egypt, 1045 01:29:56,625 --> 01:30:01,708 to Pharaoh and to all his officials and to his whole land. 1046 01:30:03,500 --> 01:30:07,583 For no one has ever shown the mighty power 1047 01:30:07,666 --> 01:30:13,875 or performed the awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel. 1048 01:30:25,291 --> 01:30:27,958 Now what I am commanding you today 1049 01:30:28,041 --> 01:30:30,750 is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. 1050 01:30:31,916 --> 01:30:32,791 No. 1051 01:30:34,958 --> 01:30:36,750 The word is very near you. 1052 01:30:37,583 --> 01:30:42,333 It is in your mouth and in your heart so, you may obey it. 1053 01:30:43,916 --> 01:30:49,208 This day, I call the heavens and the Earth as witnesses against you. 1054 01:30:49,291 --> 01:30:53,208 That I have set before you life and death, 1055 01:30:53,291 --> 01:30:55,541 blessings and curses. 1056 01:31:00,541 --> 01:31:02,291 Now, choose life... 1057 01:31:04,458 --> 01:31:08,041 so that you and your children may live. 1058 01:31:14,875 --> 01:31:18,291 "The days are coming," declares the Lord, 1059 01:31:18,375 --> 01:31:22,416 "when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel 1060 01:31:22,500 --> 01:31:24,583 and with the people of Judah. 1061 01:31:25,750 --> 01:31:28,708 This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel 1062 01:31:28,791 --> 01:31:31,958 after that time," declares the Lord. 1063 01:31:32,666 --> 01:31:35,666 "I will put my law in their minds 1064 01:31:35,750 --> 01:31:38,416 and write it on their hearts. 1065 01:31:39,125 --> 01:31:43,666 I will be their God, and they will be my people." 1066 01:31:46,666 --> 01:31:52,125 Thus there were 14 generations in all from Abraham to David, 1067 01:31:52,208 --> 01:31:56,125 14 from David to the exile to Babylon 1068 01:31:56,208 --> 01:32:00,875 and 14 from the exile to the Messiah.