Words in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original Hebrew or Aramaic.

Exodus 1

A CHAPTER OF GREAT ADVICE

What Should I learn from this chapter?

• What’s the difference between man and woman?
  
  • The Hebrew word for man is “Adam/Adom” referring to the red clay/earth since Adam was made from the earth. “Dom” means red blood. “A-dom” means man. “A-dom-ah” means red earth.
  • The word “Woman” comes from the combination of “Womb” and “Man”.
    
• Gender Exterminator = Annihilation of a Nation, a People, a Race.
  • Cease populating.
  • Remove “warriors”, keep the “passive”.
  • Confusion of roles.
  • Reduce dignity.
  • Create chaos.
  • Remove the authority of the family.
    
• History repeats itself. See 1446 BC The Exodus
  
  Since history repeats itself, 100% of the Bible is Prophetic.
  God teaches through patterns, symbolism, types, shadows, metaphors, parables, placeholders, physics, and the ancient past’s connection to the far-reaching future. Each piece adds a panoramic picture of God’s plan for man. There is no shortage of Awe in learning about God.

Israel’s Suffering in Egypt

Exodus 1:1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel who came to Egypt; each man and his household came with Jacob:

Exodus 1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

Exodus 1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

Exodus 1:4 Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

Exodus 1:5 All those who were descendants of Jacob were seventy persons (The eleven tribes) (for Joseph was in Egypt already).

• Note: Seventy people went to Egypt. This is significant in the following ways:

• God promised Abraham when they came out of the “oven” (Genesis 13:16 and Gen 15:12-18) they would be as numerous as the sand of the sea. This was Pharaoh’s fear.

• This verses notes that seventy people went to Egypt but when they left Egypt three or four million came out. An entire nation not including the animals. This is the amount of people who had to cross the Red Sea in the middle of the night with a strong wind blowing in their faces. The pathway had to be very wide for them to reach the other side before morning.

• Every detail in scripture is significant, even the difference between an “a” and the word “the”. Scripture is the most valuable real estate in the world wherein nothing should escape the reader’s attention.

Exodus 1:6 And Joseph died, all his brothers, and all that generation.

Exodus 1:7 But the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, multiplied and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

Exodus 1:8 Now there arose a new king (ruler/Pharaoh) over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

• Tutmosis I and Tutmosis II
  See Topic: The Pharaoh of the Red Sea
  

Exodus 1:9 And he said to his people, “Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we;

Exodus 1:10 come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.”

• Like Adam and Eve to God, like King Saul to David, and like the Jewish leaders to Jesus, fear becomes paranoia, turning friends into enemies using behind the curtain conspiracies, plots, and intrigue. It begins with questioning: Did God “really” say?, “What if ….”, “If you are really….”. It bears the fruit of persecution.

Exodus 1:11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew (To approximately 4 million). And they were in dread of the children of Israel.

Exodus 1:13 So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor (harshness).

• The Hebrew word for Egypt is “miṣrayim“, like the English word “Misery” or “Mayhem”. It also means to be bound up, wrapped in grave’s clothes, a stronghold, or contained in a small space.
  
• The Hebrew word for water is mayhem.
  
  • mah’-yim H4325. foul water, urine, semen:— piss. It is like a sea of people where the Leviathan (sea-monster/Satan) fouls the waters. (Beelzebub means “He who pisses against the wall” or “The Lord of the Flies.)
    
    • Ezekiel 29:² “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt. ³ Speak, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God:
      “Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt,
      O great monster (Satan/Leviathan) who lies in the midst of his rivers,
      Who has said, ‘My River is my own (or…I am the god of this world/age)
      I have made it for myself.’

Exodus 1:14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage—in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor.

Exodus 1:15 Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah (to shine forth like the dawn/clarity of a trumpet) and the name of the other Puah (glitter/ brilliancy);

Exodus 1:16 and he said, “When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

• Birthstool: ‘ōḇen H70. It’s root meaning is a stone (any stone) ‘eḇen H78 used to describe a foundation stone (like Jesus who is called a foundation stone), a hailstone, a sling stone, etc.
• See Topic: Jesus as a Rock and a Stone
• Metaphorically, it is like a potter sitting at the wheel/birthing stool, forming a man by taking him from the earth, by which God made (or birthed) man.

Exodus 1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.

• Why save the girls and kill the boys? It was believed even up to more recent times that a women had nothing to do with the creation of the “seed” of a man. Rather, she was only fertile ground for the planting of man’s seed. 
  
• Likewise, the seed of the woman in Genesis 3 is a prophecy about Mary’s virgin birth since the “seed” only comes from the man.

Exodus 1:18 So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and saved the male children alive?”

Exodus 1:19 And the midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are lively and give birth before the midwives come to them.”

• The Moral of the Story:

• Note: The midwives lied. Isn’t lying a sin?” And yet God dealt well with them. There is a time when one must be as innocent as a dove in doing the right thing, but as wise as a serpent when it comes to maneuvering around evil people.

• Wisdom fears God rather than the Pharaoh. Likewise, this would hold true during the holocaust. Given a choice, when the government is evil, fear God.

Exodus 1:20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very mighty.

Exodus 1:21 And so it was, because the midwives feared God, that He provided households for them.

Exodus 1:22 So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

What you sow, that you will reap:

The Egyptians threw the Hebrew male babies into the river and drowned them.

God threw the Egyptian pharaoh, priests, nobles, and armies (all males) into the sea and drowned them, all of them; saving none.

See Topic: Getting Their “Just Due”

The Pharaoh “dammed up” the Hebrews, keeping them from going into the desert to worship God.

God “dammed up” the waters in the Red Sea and drowned the Egyptians.