Exodus 2
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Lutheran reading notes
In Exodus chapter 2, 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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And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took {to wife} a daughter of Levi.
Exodus 2:1 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he {was a} goodly {child}, she hid him three months.
Exodus 2:2 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid {it} in the flags by the river's brink.
Exodus 2:3 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
Exodus 2:4 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash {herself} at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
Exodus 2:5 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And when she had opened {it}, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This {is one} of the Hebrews' children.
Exodus 2:6 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
Exodus 2:7 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.
Exodus 2:8 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give {thee} thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
Exodus 2:9 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water. {Moses: that is, Drawn out}
Exodus 2:10 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
Exodus 2:11 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that {there was} no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
Exodus 2:12 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
Exodus 2:13 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known. {a prince: Heb. a man, a prince}
Exodus 2:14 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
Exodus 2:15 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew {water}, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. {priest: or, prince}
Exodus 2:16 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
Exodus 2:17 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How {is it that} ye are come so soon to day? {Reuel: called also Jethro, or, Jether}
Exodus 2:18 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew {water} enough for us, and watered the flock.
Exodus 2:19 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he said unto his daughters, And where {is} he? why {is} it {that} ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
Exodus 2:20 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
Exodus 2:21 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And she bare {him} a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land. {Gershom: that is, A stranger here}
Exodus 2:22 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
Exodus 2:23 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Exodus 2:24 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto {them}. {had...: Heb. knew}
Exodus 2:25 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.