Exodus 1
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Lutheran reading notes
In Exodus chapter 1, the story continues to develop the theme of Israel’s deliverance from Egypt and the covenant at Sinai. Lutheran interpretation often highlights how the events reveal humanity’s need for God’s grace and the reliability of God's promises. The chapter illustrates both the reality of human weakness and the faithfulness of God who works through history.
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Now these {are} the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
Exodus 1:1 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Exodus 1:2 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
Exodus 1:3 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
Exodus 1:4 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt {already}. {loins: Heb. thigh}
Exodus 1:5 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
Exodus 1:6 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
Exodus 1:7 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
Exodus 1:8 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel {are} more and mightier than we:
Exodus 1:9 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and {so} get them up out of the land.
Exodus 1:10 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Exodus 1:11 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. {But...: Heb. And as they afflicted them, so they multiplied, etc}
Exodus 1:12 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
Exodus 1:13 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, {was} with rigour.
Exodus 1:14 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one {was} Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
Exodus 1:15 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see {them} upon the stools; if it {be} a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it {be} a daughter, then she shall live.
Exodus 1:16 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
Exodus 1:17 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
Exodus 1:18 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women {are} not as the Egyptian women; for they {are} lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
Exodus 1:19 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
Exodus 1:20 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
Exodus 1:21 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
Exodus 1:22 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.