Bible lesson
Chapter 23: Passover and the Sea
Study notes, questions and the Bible passages that Kingdoms of Scripture Chapter 23 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
Yahweh strikes down every firstborn in Egypt at midnight, but he passes over the homes of Israel’s sons. Israel then crosses on dry ground through the split sea, and when Pharaoh’s army goes in after them, the water flows back over the chariots and riders.
From Exodus 12:27 (KoS), Exodus 12:29 (KoS), Exodus 14:21–22 (KoS), Exodus 14:26–28 (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
- 23
- Title
- Passover and the Sea
- Bible passages
- Exodus 11:1–15:27
- Read in the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible
- Played in 2 acts
- Act I: Passover Night Exodus 11–12
- Act II: Through the Sea Exodus 13–15
- The chapter opens with
The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are. I will see the blood and pass over you, and no blow will be on you for destruction when I strike the land of Egypt.
Note · Translation Pasachti alekhem is “I will pass over you.” The verb is the one behind the name Passover. “Skip” and “shield” are live alternatives, and they are not printed.
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 are the people told to do with the hyssop and the blood, and where must they stay until morning?
Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.
Note · Translation Ezov is printed “hyssop,” the plant the Hebrew names. Saf is the basin holding the blood.
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When the sons of Israel see Egypt marching after them, what do they say to Moses?
Pharaoh came near. The sons of Israel lifted their eyes, and look, Egypt was marching after them. They were very afraid, and the sons of Israel cried out to Yahweh. They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you took us to die in the wilderness? What is this you have done to us, bringing us out of Egypt? Is this not the thing we told you in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone, and let us serve Egypt’? It is better for us to serve Egypt than to die in the wilderness.”
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What does Yahweh show Moses, and what happens after it is thrown into the water?
He cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh showed him a tree. He threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There he set him a statute and a judgment, and there he tested him.
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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.