Exodus 22-24 - Behold the Blood of the Covenant

Judgments About Property Rights

Exo 22:2-3 LSB - [2] "If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account. [3] "[But] if the sun has risen on him, there will be bloodguiltiness on his account. He shall surely make restitution; if he owns nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

Exo 22:9 LSB - [9] "For every breach of trust, [whether it is] for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, [or] for any lost thing about which one says, 'This is it,' the case of both parties shall come before the judges; he whom the judges condemn shall pay double to his neighbor.

Various Judgments

Exo 22:21 LSB - [21] "You shall not mistreat a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

Exo 22:22 LSB - [22] "You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.

Exo 22:29-30 LSB - [29] "You shall not delay [the offering from] the fullness of your harvest and the juice of your wine vat. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to Me. [30] "And you shall do the same with your oxen [and] with your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me.

To Thee, O Lord, our hearts we raise

Author: W. Chatterton Dix (1864)

1 To thee, O Lord, our hearts we raise
in hymns of adoration,
to thee bring sacrifice of praise
with shouts of exultation:
bright robes of gold the fields adorn,
the hills with joy are ringing,
the valleys stand so thick with corn
that even they are singing.

2 And now, on this our festal day,
thy bounteous hand confessing,
upon thine altar, Lord, we lay
the first-fruits of thy blessing:
by thee the hungry soul is fed
with gifts of grace supernal;
thou who dost give us earthly bread,
give us the bread eternal.

3 We bear the burden of the day,
and often toil seems dreary;
but labour ends with sunset ray,
and rest comes for the weary:
may we, the angel-reaping o'er,
stand at the last accepted,
Christ's golden sheaves for evermore
to garners bright elected.

4 O blessèd is that land of God,
where saints abide for ever;
where golden fields spread far and broad,
where flows the crystal river:
the strains of all its holy throng
with ours today are blending;
thrice blessèd is that harvest-song
which never hath an ending.

Exo 22:31 LSB - [31] "You shall be holy men to Me, therefore you shall not eat [any] flesh torn to pieces in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

Exo 23:4 LSB - [4] "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him.

Judgments About Work and Rest

Exo 23:10-11 LSB - [10] "Now you shall sow your land for six years and gather in its produce, [11] but [on] the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. Thus you shall do with your vineyard [and] your olive grove.

Exo 23:12 LSB - [12] "Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your maidservant, as well as your sojourner, may refresh themselves.

Exo 23:13 LSB - [13] "Now concerning everything which I have said to you, beware; and do not mention the name of other gods, nor let [them] be heard from your mouth.

Judgments About National Feasts

Exo 23:14-16 LSB - 

[14] "Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. 

[15] "You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. And none shall appear before Me empty-handed. 

[16] "Also [you shall keep] the Feast of the Harvest [of] the first fruits of your labors [from] what you sow in the field; also the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year when you gather in [the fruit of] your labors from the field.

Come, ye thankful people, come

Author: Henry Alford (1844)

1 Come, ye thankful people, come,
Raise the song of harvest home!
All is safely gathered in
Ere the winter storms begin.
God, our Maker, doth provide
For our wants to be supplied.
Come to God's own temple, come,
Raise the song of harvest home.

2 We ourselves are God's own field,
Fruit unto His praise to yield;
Wheat and tares together sown,
Unto joy or sorrow grown.
First the blade, and then the ear,
Then the full corn shall appear;
Lord of harvest, grant that we
Wholesome grain and pure may be.

3 For the Lord our God shall come,
And shall take His harvest home;
From His field shall purge away
All that doth offend that day.
Give His angels charge at last
In the fire the tares to cast;
But the fruitful ears to store
In His garner evermore.

4 Even so, Lord, quickly come,
Bring Thy final harvest home;
Gather Thou Thy people in,
Free from sorrow, free from sin.
There, forever purified,
In Thy presence to abide;
Come, with all Thine angels, come,
Raise the glorious harvest home.

Yahweh Will Drive Out Israel’s Enemies

Exo 23:20 LSB - [20] "Behold, I am going to send an angel before you to keep you along the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

Exo 23:31 LSB - [31] "And I will set your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out from before you.

Some day life's journey will be over

Author: John W. Peterson (1954)

1 Some day life's journey will be o'er,
And I shall reach that distant shore;
I'll sing while ent'ring heaven's door,
"Jesus led me all the way."

Chorus:
Jesus led me all the way,
Led me step by step each day;
I will tell the saints and angels as I lay my burdens down,
"Jesus led me all the way."

2 If God should let me there review
The winding paths of earth I knew,
It would be proven clear and true--
Jesus led me all the way. (Chorus)

3 And hither my Lord hath led,
Today He guides each step I tread;
And soon in heav'n it will be said,
"Jesus led me all the way." (Chorus)

Yahweh Cuts His Covenant with Israel

Exo 24:3-4 LSB - 

[3] Then Moses came and recounted to the people all the words of Yahweh and all the judgments; and all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken we will do!" [4] And Moses wrote down all the words of Yahweh. Then he arose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Exo 24:7-8 LSB - 

[7] Then he took the book of the covenant and read [it] in the hearing of the people; and they said, "All that Yahweh has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient!" 

[8] So Moses took the blood and sprinkled [it] on the people and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has cut with you in accordance with all these words."

Heb 9:18-19 LSB -

[18] Therefore not even the first [covenant] was inaugurated without blood.

[19] For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

Praise for the Fountain Opened

Author: William Cowper (1772)

1 There is a fountain filled with blood
Drawn from Immanuel's veins;
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,
Lose all their guilty stains:
Lose all their guilty stains,
Lose all their guilty stains;
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.

2 The dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain in his day;
And there may I, though vile as he,
Wash all my sins away:
Wash all my sins away,
Wash all my sins away;
And there may I, though vile as he,
Wash all my sins away.

3 Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood
Shall never lose its pow'r,
Till all the ransomed Church of God
Be saved, to sin no more:
Be saved, to sin no more,
Be saved, to sin no more;
Till all the ransomed Church of God
Be saved to sin no more.

4 E'er since by faith I saw the stream
Thy flowing wounds supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die:
And shall be till I die,
And shall be till I die;
Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die.

5 When this poor lisping, stamm'ring tongue
Lies silent in the grave,
Then in a nobler, sweeter song
I'll sing Thy pow'r to save:
I'll sing Thy pow'r to save,
I'll sing Thy pow'r to save;
Then in a nobler, sweeter song
I'll sing Thy pow'r to save.

Exo 24:9-11 LSB -
[9] Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,
[10] and they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
[11] Yet He did not stretch out His hand against the nobles of the sons of Israel; and they beheld God, and they ate and drank.

Exo 24:15-18 LSB -
[15] Then Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
[16] And the glory of Yahweh dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days; and on the seventh day He called to Moses from the midst of the cloud.
[17] And the appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like a consuming fire on the mountain top, in the eyes of the sons of Israel.
[18] Then Moses entered the midst of the cloud as he went up to the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

 

Exodus 19-21 - The Commandments of Yahweh

Israel at Sinai

Exo 19:4-6 LSB - [4] 'You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and [how] I lifted you up on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself. [5] 'So now then, if you will indeed listen to My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My treasured possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; [6] and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words that you shall speak to the sons of Israel."

1Pe 2:9 LSB - [9] But you are A CHOSEN FAMILY, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR [God's] OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

Rev 20:6 LSB - [6] Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection. Over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.

 

Yahweh Descends on Mount Sinai

Exo 19:18-19 LSB - [18] Now Mount Sinai [was] all in smoke because Yahweh descended upon it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently. [19] And the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder; [then] Moses spoke and God answered him with thunder.

Lo! God is here: let us adore
Author: Gerhardt Tersteegen (1729)

1 Lo! God is here; let us adore,

and own how dreadful is this place;

let all within us feel His pow'r,

and humbly bow before His face.

Who knows His pow'r, His grace who proves,

serve Him with awe, with rev'rence love.

2 Lo! God is here, whom day and night

united choirs of angels praise;

to Him, enthroned above all height,

the host of heav'n their anthems raise.

Disdain not, Lord, our meaner song,

who praise Thee with a stamm'ring tongue.

3 Almighty Father, may our praise

Thy courts with grateful fragrance fill;

still may we stand before Thy face,

still hear and do Thy sov'reign will.

To God whom earth and heav'n adore,

be praise and glory evermore.

 

The Commandments of Yahweh

Exo 20:2-3 LSB - [2] "I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. [3] "You shall have no other gods before Me.

Exo 20:5-6 LSB - [5] "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, [6] but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

Exo 20:10-11 LSB - [10] but the seventh day is a sabbath of Yahweh your God; [in it] you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female slave or your cattle or your sojourner who is within your gates. [11] "For in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.

Exo 20:18-19 LSB - [18] And all the people perceived the thunder and the lightning flashes and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and the people perceived [it], and they shook and stood at a distance. [19] Then they said to Moses, "Speak to us yourself, and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, lest we die."

These Are the Holy Ten Commands

Dies sind die heilgen zehn Gebot

Martin Luther, 1524

1. These are the holy Ten Commands
   Which our Lord God placed in our hands
   Through Moses, His own servant true,
   When he to Mount Sinai drew.
   Kyrieleis!

2. I am alone thy God the Lord,
   Thou shalt false worship not afford;
   Put thy whole confidence in Me
   And love Me right faithfully.
   Kyrieleis!

3. Thou shalt not take My name in vain
   By idle word or speech profane,
   And praise but that as good and true
   Which I Myself say and do.
   Kyrieleis!

4. Thou shalt the day which God hath blest
   Keep holy, that thy house may rest;
   Keep hand and heart from labor free,
   That God may thus work in thee.
   Kyrieleis!

5. Thou shalt give love and honor due
   To father, and to mother too,
   And help them when their strength decays;
   So shalt thou have length of days.
   Kyrieleis!

6. Thou shalt in sinful wrath not kill,
   Nor hate, nor render ill for ill;
   Be patient and of gentle mood,
   And to thy foe do thou good.
   Kyrieleis!

7. Thou shalt respect thy marriage vows,
   Thy heart give only to thy spouse;
   Thy life keep pure, and lest thou sin,
   Use temp’rance and discipline.
   Kyrieleis!

8. Thou shalt not steal; thou shalt abhor
   To wring their life-blood from the poor;
   But open wide thy kindly hand
   To all the poor in the land.
   Kyrieleis!

9. Thou shalt no faithless witness be,
   Nor neighbor harm with calumny;
   Defend his innocence from blame;
   With charity hide his shame.
   Kyrieleis!

10. Thou shalt not seek thy neighbor’s house,
    Nor wife, nor servants, nor aught else,
    But wish that his such good may be
    As thy heart doth wish for thee.
    Kyrieleis!

11. God hath giv’n us all these commands
    That thou thy sin, O child of man,
    Might know, and also well perceive
    How unto God man should live.
    Kyrieleis!

12. Help us, Lord Jesus Christ, for we
    A Mediator have in Thee.
    With works we’d perish from the path;
    They merit but endless wrath.
    Kyrieleis!

Judgments About Slaves

Exo 21:2 LSB - [2] "If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.

Exo 21:5-6 LSB - [5] "But if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out as a free man,' [6] then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. Then his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.

Take My Life, and Let It Be

Author: Frances Ridley Havergal (1874)

1 Take my life and let it be

consecrated, Lord, to thee.

Take my moments and my days;

let them flow in endless praise,

let them flow in endless praise.

2 Take my hands and let them move

at the impulse of thy love.

Take my feet and let them be

swift and beautiful for thee,

swift and beautiful for thee.

3 Take my voice and let me sing

always, only, for my King.

Take my lips and let them be

filled with messages from thee,

filled with messages from thee.

4 Take my silver and my gold;

not a mite would I withhold.

Take my intellect and use

every power as thou shalt choose,

every power as thou shalt choose.

5 Take my will and make it thine;

it shall be no longer mine.

Take my heart it is thine own;

it shall be thy royal throne,

it shall be thy royal throne.

6 Take my love; my Lord, I pour

at thy feet its treasure store.

Take myself, and I will be

ever, only, all for thee,

ever, only, all for thee.

 

Judgments About Personal Injuries

Exo 21:15, 17 LSB - [15] "And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. ... [17] "And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Exo 21:23-25 LSB - [23] "But if there is [any further] injury, then you shall pay life for life, [24] eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, [25] burn for burn, bruise for bruise, wound for wound.

Exodus 16-18 Yahweh Rains Bread from Heaven

Yahweh Rains Bread from Heaven

Exo 16:4 LSB - [4] Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether or not they will walk in My law.

Yahweh Gives Meat and Bread

Exo 16:12-13 LSB - [12] "I have heard the grumblings of the sons of Israel; speak to them, saying, 'At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread, so that you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.'" [13] So it happened at evening that the quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

Yahweh Gives Bread for Two Days

Exo 16:22 LSB - [22] Now it happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. Then all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses.

Exo 16:35 LSB - [35] And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah

1 Guide me, O my great Redeemer,

pilgrim through this barren land;

I am weak, but you are mighty;

hold me with your powerful hand.

Bread of heaven, bread of heaven,

feed me now and evermore,

feed me now and evermore.

2 Open now the crystal fountain,

where the healing waters flow.

Let the fire and cloudy pillar

lead me all my journey through.

Strong Deliverer, strong Deliverer,

ever be my strength and shield,

ever be my strength and shield.

3 When I tread the verge of Jordan,

bid my anxious fears subside.

Death of death, and hell's Destruction,

land me safe on Canaan's side.

Songs of praises, songs of praises

I will ever sing to you,

I will ever sing to you.

Water from the Rock

Exo 17:6-7 LSB - [6] "Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. [7] So he named the place Massah and Meribah because of the contending of the sons of Israel, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, "Is Yahweh among us or not?"

Shepherd of souls, refresh and bless

1 Shepherd of souls, refresh and bless

Your chosen pilgrim flock

With manna in the wilderness,

With water from the rock.

2 We would not live by bread alone,

But by your word of grace,

In strength of which we travel on

To our abiding place.

3 Be known to us in breaking bread,

But do not then depart;

Savior, abide with us, and spread

Your table in our heart.

4 Lord, sup with us in love divine;

Your body and your blood,

That living bread, that heav'nly wine,

Be our immortal food.

 

Israel Overwhelms Amalek

Exo 17:14-16 LSB - [14] Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this in a book as a memorial and recite it in Joshua's hearing, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven." [15] And Moses built an altar and named it Yahweh is My Banner; [16] and he said, "Because He [has sworn] with a hand upon the throne of Yah, Yahweh will have war against Amalek from generation to generation."

Jethro’s Counsel

Exo 18:2-4 LSB - [2] And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Moses' wife Zipporah, after he had sent her away, [3] and her two sons, of whom one was named Gershom, for Moses said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land." [4] And the other was named Eliezer, for [he said], "The God of my father was my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh."

Exo 18:21-22 LSB - [21] "But you shall select excellent men out of all the people, those who fear God, men of truth, those who hate greedy gain; and you shall place [these men] over them [as] leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. [22] "And they will judge the people at all times. And it will be that every major matter they will bring to you, but every minor matter they themselves will judge. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear [the burden] with you.

 

Exodus 13-15 - Israel Crosses the Red Sea

Sanctifying the Firstborn

Exo 13:2 LSB - [2] "Sanctify to Me every firstborn, the first offspring of every womb among the sons of Israel, both of man and beast; it belongs to Me."

The Feast of Unleavened Bread

Exo 13:8-9 LSB - [8] "And you shall tell your son on that day, saying, 'It is because of what Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt.' [9] "And it will be as a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh brought you out of Egypt.

Exo 13:14-15 LSB - [14] "And it will be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' then you shall say to him, 'With a strong hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery. [15] 'And it happened, when Pharaoh hardened [his heart] with stiffness about letting us go, that Yahweh killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast. Therefore, I sacrifice to Yahweh the males, the first offspring of every womb, but every firstborn of my sons I redeem.'

Pillars of Cloud and Fire

Exo 13:17-18 LSB - [17] Now it happened that when Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not guide them by the way of the land of the Philistines, even though it was near; for God said, "Lest the people change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt." [18] Hence God turned the people to the way of the wilderness to the Red Sea; and the sons of Israel went up in battle array from the land of Egypt.

Exo 13:19 LSB - [19] And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, "God will surely take care of you, and you shall bring up my bones from here with you."

Exo 13:21 LSB - [21] And Yahweh was going before them in a pillar of cloud by day to guide them on the way, and in a pillar of fire by night to give them light, that they might go by day and by night.

Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
by William Williams

1 Guide me, O my great Redeemer,

pilgrim through this barren land;

I am weak, but you are mighty;

hold me with your powerful hand.

Bread of heaven, bread of heaven,

feed me now and evermore,

feed me now and evermore.

2 Open now the crystal fountain,

where the healing waters flow.

Let the fire and cloudy pillar

lead me all my journey through.

Strong Deliverer, strong Deliverer,

ever be my strength and shield,

ever be my strength and shield.

3 When I tread the verge of Jordan,

bid my anxious fears subside.

Death of death, and hell's Destruction,

land me safe on Canaan's side.

Songs of praises, songs of praises

I will ever sing to you,

I will ever sing to you.

 

 Israel Crosses the Red Sea

Exo 14:3-4 LSB - [3] "And Pharaoh will say of the sons of Israel, 'They are wandering in confusion in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.' [4] "Thus I will harden Pharaoh's heart with strength, and he will pursue them; and I will be glorified through Pharaoh and all his army, so that the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh." And they did so.

Exo 14:13-14 LSB - [13] But Moses said to the people, "Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of Yahweh which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again forever. [14] "Yahweh will fight for you, and you will keep silent."

Exo 14:21-22 LSB - [21] Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Yahweh swept the sea [back] by a strong east wind all night and made the sea into dry ground, so the waters were split. [22] So the sons of Israel went through the midst of the sea on the dry land, and the waters [were] a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

Exo 14:27-28 LSB - [27] So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state at daybreak while the Egyptians were fleeing right into it; then Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. [28] And the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even Pharaoh's entire army that had gone into the sea after them; not even one of them remained.

Exo 14:29-31 LSB - [29] But the sons of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea, and the waters [were] a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. [30] Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. [31] Then Israel saw the great hand which Yahweh had used against the Egyptians; and the people feared Yahweh, and they believed in Yahweh and in His servant Moses.

Come, ye faithful, raise the strain

Author: St. John of Damascus

1 Come, ye faithful, raise the strain

of triumphant gladness;

God hath brought forth Israel

into joy from sadness;

loosed from Pharaoh's bitter yoke

Jacob's sons and daughters,

led them with unmoistened foot

through the Red Sea waters.

2 'Tis the spring of souls today;

Christ hath burst His prison,

and from three days' sleep in death

as a sun hath risen;

all the winter of our sins,

long and dark, is flying

from His light, to whom we give

laud and praise undying.

3 Now the queen of seasons, bright

with the day of splendor,

with the royal feast of feasts,

comes its joy to render;

comes to glad Jerusalem,

who with true affection

welcomes in unwearied strains

Jesus' resurrection,

4 Neither might the gates of death,

nor the tomb's dark portal,

nor the watchers, nor the seal

hold Thee as a mortal;

but today amidst the twelve

Thou didst stand, bestowing

that Thy peace which evermore

passeth human knowing.

5 "Alleluia!" now we cry

to our King immortal,

who, triumphant, burst the bars

of the tomb's dark portal;

"Alleluia!" with the Son,

God the Father praising,

"Alleluia!" yet again

to the Spirit raising.

The Song of Moses and Israel

Exo 15:1-2 LSB - 

[1] Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to Yahweh and said, 

"I will sing to Yahweh, for He is highly exalted; 

The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea. 

[2] "Yah is my strength and song, 

And He has become my salvation; 

This is my God, and I will praise Him; 

My father's God, and I will extol Him.

Exo 15:19 LSB - [19] For the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them, but the sons of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea.

Yahweh Sweetens the Water

Exo 15:25-26 LSB - [25] Then he cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh showed him a tree; and he threw [it] into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There He set for them a statute and a judgment, and there He tested them. [26] And He said, "If you will earnestly listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, Yahweh, am your healer."

Exodus 10-12 - Israel Goes Out from Egypt

The Plague of Locusts

Exo 10:1-2 LSB - 

[1] Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Come to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants with firmness, that I may set these signs of Mine among them, 

[2] and that you may recount in the hearing of your son and of your grandson, how I dealt severely with the Egyptians, and how I put My signs among them, that you may know that I am Yahweh."

Exo 10:12-13 LSB - 

[12] Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt and eat every plant of the land, all that the hail has left remaining." 

[13] So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh directed an east wind on the land all that day and all that night; [and when] it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

Exo 10:20 LSB - [20] But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart with strength, and he did not let the sons of Israel go.

The Plague of Darkness

Exo 10:22-23 LSB - [22] So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days. [23] They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but all the sons of Israel had light in their [places of] habitation.

Exo 10:27 LSB - [27] But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart with strength, and he was not willing to let them go.

Yahweh Says One More Plague

Exo 11:9 LSB - [9] Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My miraculous wonders will be multiplied in the land of Egypt."

The Passover Lamb

Exo 12:7-8 LSB - [7] 'Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. [8] 'And they shall eat the flesh that night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Exo 12:11 LSB - [11] 'Now you shall eat it in this manner: [with] your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste--it is the Passover of Yahweh.

Exo 12:13 LSB - [13] 'And the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and I will see the blood, and I will pass over you, and there shall be no plague among you to destroy [you] when I strike the land of Egypt.

The Feast of Unleavened Bread

Exo 12:17 LSB - [17] 'You shall also keep the [Feast of] Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall keep this day throughout your generations as a perpetual statute.

Exo 12:25-27 LSB - [25] "And it will be, when you enter the land which Yahweh will give you, as He has promised, you shall keep this [new] slavery. [26] "And it will be when your children say to you, 'What is the meaning of this [new] slavery to you?' [27] that you shall say, 'It is a Passover sacrifice to Yahweh who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but delivered our homes.'" And the people bowed low and worshiped.

Death of the Firstborn of Egypt

Exo 12:29 LSB - [29] Now it happened at midnight that Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle.

Israel Goes Out from Egypt

Exo 12:41-42 LSB - [41] And it happened at the end of 430 years, to the very day, that all the hosts of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt. [42] It is a night to be kept for Yahweh for having brought them out from the land of Egypt; this night is for Yahweh, to be kept by all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.

The Statute of the Passover

Exo 12:48 LSB - [48] "But if a sojourner sojourns with you and celebrates the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it.

Prayer for children.

Olney Hymns Hymn 12 William Cowper

7,7,7,7

Gracious Lord, our children see,

By thy mercy we are free;

But shall these, alas! remain

Subjects still of Satan’s reign?

Israel’s young ones, when of old

Pharaoh threatened to withhold;

Then thy messenger said, “No;

Let the children also go.”

When the angel of the Lord

Drawing forth his dreadful sword,

Slew, with an avenging hand,

All the first–born of the land:

Then thy peoples’ doors he passed,

Where the bloody sign was placed;

Hear us, now, upon our knees,

Plead the blood of CHRIST for these!

LORD we tremble, for we know

How the fierce malicious foe;

Wheeling round his watchful flight,

Keeps them ever in his sight:

Spread thy pinions, King of kings!

Hide them safe beneath thy wings;

Lest the rav’nous bird of prey

Stoop, and bear the brood away.

Exodus 7-9 - You Do Not Yet Fear Yahweh God

Aaron’s Staff Becomes a Serpent

Exo 7:6-7 LSB - [6] So Moses and Aaron did [it]; as Yahweh commanded them, thus they did. [7] Now Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

Exo 7:12-13 LSB - [12] And each one threw down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs. [13] Yet Pharaoh's heart was hardened with strength, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

The Plague of Water Turning to Blood

Exo 7:20-21 LSB - [20] So Moses and Aaron did thus, as Yahweh had commanded. And he raised up the staff and struck the water that [was] in the Nile, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water that [was] in the Nile was turned to blood. [21] And the fish that [were] in the Nile died, and the Nile became foul, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. And the blood was through all the land of Egypt.

Exo 7:22 LSB - [22] Yet the magicians of Egypt did the same with their secret arts; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened with strength, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

The Plague of Frogs

Exo 8:6-7 LSB - [6] So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt. [7] And the magicians did the same with their secret arts; they caused the frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.

Exo 8:15 LSB - [15] Then Pharaoh saw that there was relief, and he hardened his heart with firmness and did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

The Plague of Gnats

Exo 8:17 LSB - [17] And they did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and there were gnats on man and beast. All the dust of the earth became gnats through all the land of Egypt.

Exo 8:19 LSB - [19] And the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God." But Pharaoh's heart was hardened with strength, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

The Plague of Flies

Exo 8:22-23 LSB - [22] "But on that day I will make a distinction for the land of Goshen, where My people are living, so that no swarms of flies will be there, that you may know that I, Yahweh, am in the midst of the land. [23] "And I will put a division between My people and your people. Tomorrow this sign will happen."'"

Exo 8:32 LSB - [32] Then Pharaoh hardened his heart with firmness this time also, and he did not let the people go.

The Plague of Dying Egyptian Livestock

Exo 9:4 LSB - [4] "But Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing will die of all that belongs to the sons of Israel."'"

Exo 9:7 LSB - [7] And Pharaoh sent, and behold, there was not even one of the livestock of Israel dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened with firmness, and he did not let the people go.

The Plague of Boils

Exo 9:10 LSB - [10] So they took the soot from the kiln and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses tossed it toward the sky, and it became boils breaking out with sores on man and beast.

The Plague of Hail

Exo 9:27-28 LSB - [27] Then Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron and said to them, "I have sinned this time; Yahweh is the righteous one, and I and my people are the wicked ones. [28] "Entreat Yahweh, for God's thunder and hail are too much; and I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."

Exo 9:30 LSB - [30] "But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear Yahweh God."

Exo 9:34-35 LSB - [34] But Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased. So he sinned again and hardened his heart with firmness, he and his servants. [35] And Pharaoh's heart was hardened with strength, and he did not let the sons of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken by the hand of Moses.

Exodus 4-6 - Let My people go

If They Will Not Believe These Signs

Exo 4:1 LSB - [1] Then Moses answered and said, "What if they will not believe me and will not listen to my voice? For they may say, 'Yahweh has not appeared to you.'"

Exo 4:9 LSB - [9] "But if it will be that they will not believe even these two signs and that they will not listen to your voice, then you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry land; and the water which you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry land."

Aaron to Speak for Moses

Exo 4:11-12 LSB - [11] And Yahweh said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes [him] mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, Yahweh? [12] "So now, go, and I, even I, will be with your mouth and will instruct you what you shall speak."

Moses Returns to Egypt

Exo 4:21 LSB - [21] And Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go to return to Egypt, see [to it] that all the miraculous wonders which I have put in your hand, that you do them before Pharaoh; but as for Me, I will harden his heart with strength so that he will not let the people go.

Exo 4:24-26 LSB - [24] Now it happened at the lodging place on the way that Yahweh encountered him and sought to put him to death. [25] Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and touched his feet with it, and she said, "You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me!" [26] So He let him alone. At that time she said, "[You are] a bridegroom of blood" with reference to the circumcision.

Pharaoh Will Not Let the People Go

Exo 5:1 LSB - [1] And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Let My people go that they may celebrate a feast to Me in the wilderness.'"

Go Down Moses

When Is­ra­el was in Egypt’s land,

Let My people go,

Oppressed so hard they could not stand,

Let My peo­ple go.

Refrain

Go down, Mo­ses,

Way down in Egypt’s land,

Tell old Pha­raoh,

To let My peo­ple go.

Thus saith the Lord, bold Mo­ses said,

Let My peo­ple go,

If not I’ll smite your first born dead,

Let My peo­ple go.

Refrain

No more in bond­age shall they toil,

Let My peo­ple go,

Let them come out with Egypt’s spoil,

Let My peo­ple go.

Refrain

Exo 5:23 LSB - [23] "Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done harm to this people, and You have not delivered Your people at all."

Yahweh Remembers His Covenant

Exo 6:1 LSB - [1] Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for by a strong hand he will let them go, and by a strong hand he will drive them out of his land."

Exo 6:2-3 LSB - [2] God spoke further to Moses and said to him, "I am Yahweh; [3] and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but [by] My name, Yahweh, I was not known to them.

Exo 6:9 LSB - [9] So Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account of [their] weakness of spirit and hard slavery.

The Heads of Israel’s Households

Exo 6:26 LSB - [26] It was [the same] Aaron and Moses to whom Yahweh said, "Bring out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts."

Aaron Will Speak for Moses

Exo 7:3 LSB - [3] "But I will harden Pharaoh's heart with stiffness that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.

Exo 7:6-7 LSB - [6] So Moses and Aaron did [it]; as Yahweh commanded them, thus they did. [7] Now Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.