March 19 - Graven Images
פסל - “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth." EXODUS 20:4
March 18 - The Ten Words
עשׂרת הדברים - So [Moses] was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. EXODUS 34:28
March 17 - The King’s Personal Property
סגלה - "Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine." EXODUS 19:5
March 16 - Putting Sin on the Map
נסה - And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the Lord by saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?” EXODUS 17:7
March 15 - The What-Is-It Bread
מן - When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given you…
March 14 - Torah and Bitter Waters
ירה - When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah. And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” And he cried to the…
March 13 - Buried and Born at Sea
ים סוף - Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea. EXODUS 15:4
March 12 - Cloud
ענן - And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and…
March 11 - Firstborn
בכור - The Lord said to Moses, “Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.” EXODUS 13:1–2
March 10 - Safe Behind the Blood
פסח - The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the…
March 9 - Israelite Fast Food
חפזון - In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover. EXODUS 12:11
March 8 - The Plague War
נגע - The Lord said to Moses, “Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward, he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you away completely. (EXODUS 11:1)
March 7 - The Digits of Divinity
אצבע - Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said. EXODUS 8:19
March 6 - Serpents and Crocodiles
תנין - Then the Lord 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…
March 5 - Heavy Work and Hard Hearts
תכבד העבדה - [Pharoah said,] "Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.” EXODUS 5:9
March 4 - Mr. Big House
פרעה - 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 ta feast to me in the wilderness.’ ” But Pharaoh said, “Who is…
March 3 - A Bridegroom of Blood
חתן דמים - At a lodging place on the way the Lord met him and sought to put him to death. Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it and said…
March 2 - Sin’s Skin Story
צרעת - Again, the Lord said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow. Then God said, “Put your…
March 1 - Sticking It to Enemies
מטה - The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.” And he said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran…
February 28 - I Am Who I Am
יהוה - Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I…
February 27 - Holy Ground
קדשׁ - Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” EXODUS 3:5
February 26 - God’s Unique Messenger
מלאך - And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. EXODUS 3:2
February 25 - When God Knows
ידע - And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel—and God knew. EXODUS 2:15–16
February 24 - Drinking from a Beer
באר - When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well. Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and…
February 23 - Moses the Water Man
משׁה - When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.” EXODUS 2:10