1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,800 Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible 2 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:09,080 in a year. 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:12,720 Yesterday we heard about the death of Abraham and how before he died he blessed the children 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:18,960 of Joseph except he blessed the younger with the right hand and the older with the left 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:24,440 hand and when Joseph tried to correct this he told him no, that this is the way it has 6 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:25,440 to be. 7 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:30,640 Today we're going to hear about what happens after the death of Joseph and how a new Pharaoh 8 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:35,560 when he comes in, a Pharaoh that does not like the Israelites very much, what he ends 9 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:40,520 up doing with them and we'll also hear about the birth of Moses. 10 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:41,520 Let's begin. 11 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:46,840 Today's reading is from Exodus chapters 1 and 2. 12 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:48,320 Chapter 1. 13 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:52,240 Now these are the names of the children of Israel who came to Egypt. 14 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:59,600 Each man and his household came with Jacob, Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar, 15 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:05,480 Zebulun and Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 16 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:11,200 All those who were descendants of Jacob were seventy persons, for Joseph was in Egypt already, 17 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:15,520 and Joseph died, all his brothers and all that generation. 18 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:19,440 But the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly and multiplied and grew 19 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:23,240 exceedingly mighty, and the land was filled with them. 20 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:28,560 Now there arose a new king over Egypt who did not know Joseph, and he said to his people, 21 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:32,680 Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. 22 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:37,600 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply and it happen in the event of 23 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:44,100 war that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land. 24 00:01:44,100 --> 00:01:48,120 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens, and they 25 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:52,320 built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Ramses. 26 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:56,220 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew, and they were in 27 00:01:56,220 --> 00:01:58,200 dread of the children of Israel. 28 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:02,320 So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor, and they made their lives 29 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:08,040 bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. 30 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:12,200 All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor. 31 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:17,660 Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one was Shipra, 32 00:02:17,660 --> 00:02:22,460 and the name of the other Pua, and he said, When you do the duties of a midwife for the 33 00:02:22,460 --> 00:02:28,360 Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him, but 34 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:31,500 if it is a daughter, then she shall live. 35 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:36,640 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved 36 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:38,800 the male children alive. 37 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:43,240 So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, Why have you done this thing, 38 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:45,600 and saved the male children alive? 39 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:50,160 And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, 40 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:54,160 for they are lively and give birth before the midwives come to them. 41 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,960 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very mighty, 42 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:03,860 and so it was because the midwives feared God that he provided households for them. 43 00:03:03,860 --> 00:03:08,920 So Pharaoh commanded all his people saying, Every son who is born you shall cast into 44 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:12,880 the river, and every daughter you shall save alive. 45 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:15,800 Chapter 2 And a man of the house of Levi went and took 46 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:18,280 as wife a daughter of Levi. 47 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:22,800 So the woman conceived him for a son, and when she saw that he was a beautiful child, 48 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:24,760 she hid him three months. 49 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:29,920 But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of burrushes for him, dabbed it 50 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:35,880 with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank. 51 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,160 And his sister stood afar off to know what would be done to him. 52 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:43,240 Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, and her maidens walked 53 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,200 along the riverside. 54 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:48,920 And when she saw the ark among the reeds, she sent her maid to get it. 55 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:53,300 And when she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby wept. 56 00:03:53,300 --> 00:03:58,780 So she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrew's children. 57 00:03:58,780 --> 00:04:02,700 Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call a nurse for you from the 58 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:05,800 Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you? 59 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:10,840 Then Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go, so the maiden went and called the child's mother. 60 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:15,120 Then Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take this child away and nurse him for me, and 61 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:16,840 I will give you your wages. 62 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:20,680 So the woman took the child and nursed him, and the child grew, and she brought him to 63 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,360 Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. 64 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:28,240 So she called his name Moses, saying, Because I drew him out of the water. 65 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:32,640 Now it came to pass in those days when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren 66 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:37,840 and looked at their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren. 67 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:42,180 So he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and 68 00:04:42,180 --> 00:04:43,740 hid him in the sand. 69 00:04:43,740 --> 00:04:48,120 And when he went out the second day, behold, two Hebrew men were fighting, and he said 70 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:52,360 to the one who did the wrong, Why are you striking your companion? 71 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:55,440 Then he said, Who made you a prince and a judge over us? 72 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,480 Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? 73 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:02,120 So Moses feared and said, Surely this thing is known. 74 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,280 When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. 75 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:09,600 But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian, and he sat down 76 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:10,920 by a well. 77 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:15,560 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water, and they filled 78 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,240 the troughs to water their father's flock. 79 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:22,480 Then the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and helped them and watered 80 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:23,780 their flock. 81 00:05:23,780 --> 00:05:28,520 When they came to Reoel, their father, he said, How is it that you have come so soon 82 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:32,640 today? and they said, An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he 83 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,680 also drew enough water for us and watered the flock. 84 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,200 So he said to his daughters, And where is he? 85 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:40,480 Why is it that you have left the man? 86 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:42,520 Call him that he may eat bread. 87 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:47,000 Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses, 88 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:48,320 and she bore him a son. 89 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:54,200 He called his name Gershom, for he said, I have been a stranger in a foreign land. 90 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,520 Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. 91 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:01,480 Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out, and their 92 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,500 cry came up to God because of the bondage. 93 00:06:04,500 --> 00:06:08,560 So God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and 94 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:09,720 with Jacob. 95 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:18,440 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them. 96 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:22,040 I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you 97 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:24,240 again tomorrow to continue on our journey. 98 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:32,200 God bless you and have a great day.