Bible lesson
Chapter 21: Moses’s Birth, Call, and Return
Study notes, questions and the Bible passages that Kingdoms of Scripture Chapter 21 covers, as the game’s chapter map shows them. Read the passages first in the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible, the text the game quotes: the game’s choices, maps and staging are reconstructions, not scripture. This page is not a church lesson and adds no doctrine.
Study notes
Pharaoh orders every newborn son thrown into the Nile, yet one boy grows up as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter and is named Moses. Yahweh tells Moses and Aaron to bring Israel out of Egypt, but Pharaoh says he does not know Yahweh and refuses to let Israel go.
From Exodus 1:22 (KoS), Exodus 2:10 (KoS), Exodus 5:2 (KoS), Exodus 6:26 (KoS).
These notes and questions are original study helps written for this site, not scripture. The verses shown with each question are quoted from the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible.
- Chapter
- 21
- Title
- Moses’s Birth, Call, and Return
- Bible passages
- Exodus 1:1–6:30
- Read in the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible
- Played in 2 acts
- Act I: A People in Bondage Exodus 1–4
- Act II: Bricks Without Straw Exodus 5–6
- The chapter opens with
God said to Moses, “I will be who I will be.” He said, “This is what you shall say to the sons of Israel: ‘Ehyeh has sent me to you.’”
Note · Translation Ehyeh asher ehyeh is an imperfect verb, twice: “I will be who I will be.” “I am who I am” treats the verb as a present, and it is not printed. In the message, Ehyeh is left as the name, the same verb.
Notice and discuss
Read each passage, then think about the question on your own or talk it over with others. No answers are collected.
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What does the text say about the midwives, and what do they do about the king’s command?
The midwives feared God. They did not do what the king of Egypt had told them. They let the children live.
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What does Yahweh ask Moses about who makes a person speak, hear or see, and what does Moses still ask of him?
Yahweh said to him, “Who put a mouth in a human? Or who makes a person mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, Yahweh? Now go. I will be with your mouth, and I will teach you what you shall say.” He said, “Please, Lord, send by the hand of whoever you will send.”
Note · Translation Shlach na beyad tishlach asks that someone else be sent. No name is supplied.
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When Moses returns to Yahweh, what two questions does he ask?
Moses returned to Yahweh and said, “Lord, why have you done harm to this people? Why did you send me?
Note · Translation The address is Adonai, “Lord,” not the four consonants.
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Kingdoms of Scripture Bible (KoS). CC BY 4.0. Source: bible.kingdomsofscripture.com. Quotations are whole published verses, matched to the game’s chapter references.