Then HaShem said to Moses and Aaron, “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Prove yourselves by working a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’” So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as HaShem commanded. Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and […]

These are the heads of their fathers’ houses: (6:14) These are the Aaron and Moses to whom HaShem said: “Bring out the people of Israel from the land of Egypt by their hosts.” (6:26) The first twelve verses of today’s passage details the descendants of the oldest three sons of Jacob/Israel. The third of Jacob’s

But HaShem said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.” God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am HaShem.  I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty] but by

Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’”  But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord,

And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.” So Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his

  Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you.’” (4:1) Moses’ lack of confidence regarding the mission on which God is sending him is enormous. He told God that the elders won’t believe that the Lord appeared

When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then he said, “Do not come near, take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” And he said, “I am

One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. (2:11-12) Moses had been

Then Pharoah commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.” (1:22) Pharoah was still determined to diminish the Hebrew population (not one to give up easily) and so instructed all his people to cast the Hebrew baby boys

Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them lest they multiply, and if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us