JUNE 21, 2021 Exodus 16:1-2 And they journeyed from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they departed from the land of Egypt. Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses […]
JUNE 20, 2021 Exodus 15:25-26 There He made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there He tested them, and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have […]
JUNE 19, 2021 Exodus 15:24-25 And the people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” So he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. According to some commentators, there are certain shrubs that can allegedly absorb salt and other impurities from water that would make […]
JUNE 18, 2021 Exodus 15:20-21 Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them: “Sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!” From the time that Moses was […]
JUNE 17, 2021 Exodus 15:17-18 You will bring them in and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, in the place, O Lord, which You have made for Your own dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established. The Lord shall reign forever and ever. From the beginning, God’s people have looked toward the time when we would dwell with Him in the […]
JUNE 16, 2021 Exodus 15:11 “Who is like You, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?” This verse is of particular interest because, first of all, it celebrates the fact that the God of Israel is God. The people of Egypt, and of all nations, were exposed to the reality that their gods aren’t […]
JUNE 14, 2021 Exodus 15:2 The Lord is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation; He is my God, and I will praise Him; my father’s God, and I will exalt Him. There are Aramaic translations of the Scriptures known as Targumim which follow the Hebrew version of Scripture very closely. On occasion, however, these Aramaic versions offer slightly different renderings […]
JUNE 13, 2021 Exodus 15:2 The Lord is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation; He is my God, and I will praise Him; my father’s God, and I will exalt Him. As we continue to look at the Song of Moses, two things are worth noting in this verse. First of all, there is the acknowledgement that God is our […]
JUNE 12, 2021 Exodus 15:1 Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the Lord, and spoke, saying: “I will sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!” Rabbinical commentators define this song — the song of Moses — as a profound and spiritual […]
JUNE 11, 2021 Exodus 14:27 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and when the morning appeared, the sea returned to its full depth, while the Egyptians were fleeing into it. So the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. If you recall, I had previously mentioned that it was likely that the sea […]
JUNE 10, 2021 Exodus 14:24 Now it came to pass, in the morning watch, that the Lord looked down upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and He troubled the army of the Egyptians. In the movie, The Ten Commandments, Pharaoh, played by Yul Brynner, determined to pursue Israel in the face of this […]
JUNE 8, 2021 Exodus 14:21-22 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided. So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their […]
