Walk Through the Bible

Moses and Aaron go back to pharaoh and demand he let the people of Israel go. He declines so Aaron throws his staff to the ground, and it turns into a serpent. Pharaoh calls his wise men and sorcerers in, and they throw their staffs on the ground, and they turn into serpents as well. However, Aarons staff swallows up the magician's staff, and pharaohs heart is hardened. Aaron then strikes the Nile with his staff and the water turns to blood. Pharaoh turns to his magicians once again who through their dark arts pull off a cheap counterfeit imitation. Satisfied, pharaoh returns to his house with his heart still hardened. This is the first of the ten plagues that will come upon Egypt.

In chapter 5 pharaoh asks who is the Lord? In chapter 6 God responds. I am the Lord, God Almighty. God gives Moses the seven "I wills" in vv. 6-8. God promises to save them, redeem them, adopt them, and give them an inheritance. They will be His people and He will be their God. But the Israelites refuse because they are broken in spirit and in heavy bondage. God then tells Moses and Aaron to go back to pharaoh and tell him to let my people go. The chapter ends with a genealogy showing that Moses and Aaron are direct descendants of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Levi. They are Levites by birth, therefore, qualified to serve as priests to the nation.

Moses and Aaron appear before pharaoh and say, "thus says the Lord, let my people go." Pharaoh responds by saying, "who is the Lord that I should obey his voice?" These are the two questions everyone must answer themselves. Who is the Lord? Why should I obey Him? Pharaoh does not let the people go, in fact for their annoyance he takes away their straw and demands the same quota of bricks be made. It appears the Israelites are worse off than before so Moses goes to God with his complaint on why He has not yet intervened. God responds in chapter 6.

Moses continues his objection on why he should not be the one to go to Egypt to free the Israelites form bondage. God reassures Moses that He will be with him, and the people will listen to him. Moses meets up with Aaron and makes his way to Egypt where Aaron speaks to the people and shows them the signs God had given them to show and the people listened and believed. When they heard God had visited them and He was concerned for them they bowed down and worshipped Him.

God speaks to Moses through the burning bush and commissions him to go to Egypt to free the Israelites from bondage. Moses is reassured by God that He will be with him when he goes because pharaoh will not listen. But God will stretch out His mighty hand and the sons of Israel will be freed. Moses asks God by what name should he be known, and God answers "I Am that I Am". Tell them "I Am sent me to you". The stage is set for Moses to now go and set the Israelites free after 400 years of slavery.

Moses is born under the sentence of death. All male Hebrew children were to be thrown into the Nile River. But Moses was hid for three months and was eventually discovered by pharaoh's daughter where she took him as her own son. He was raised as an Egyptian, but he later went out among his people where he witnessed an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. Moses intervenes and kills the Egyptian, Under the threat of Death, Moses flees to Midian where he lives for forty years before God calls him to go and fee the people of Israel firm Egyptian bondage.

Exodus begins as a continuation of Genesis with the sons of Israel living in Egypt. However, a new king comes into power who does not know Joseph and therefore, deals ruthlessly with the Israelites. First enslaving them, and ultimately giving a decree to kill all the newborn male children. It sets the stage for God to raise up Moses to go and redeem His people Israel.

Joseph and his brothers take and bury Jacob in the land of Canaan like Jacob requested. After Jacob's death, Joseph's brothers believe that he will pay them back for all the evil they had done against him. However, Joseph reassures them that he is not in the place of God to do such things. What they meant for evil, God used for good and that good saved many people. Before Joseph's death, he makes his brothers promise to take his bones with them when they leave the land of Egypt and return back to the promised land.

Joseph gathers all his sons in order to give them a final blessing of things to come before he dies. He exhorts his sons to bury him in the land of Canaan in the cave at Machpelah when he dies. The chapter ends with Jacob's death.

Joseph brings his sons Manasseh and Ephraim to get a blessing from Jacob before he dies. Jacob adopts Joseph's sons so that they will receive an inheritance and will become full heirs to the promise as his sons.

Joseph's family is brought into Egypt an introduced to Pharoah. They were given the land of Goshen to dwell in. The focus returns to the famine where we are told it was so severe that everyone ran out of money to buy food. Joseph makes a plan for people to sell their livestock in exchange for food. At the end of the chapter Jacob is getting close to death so he makes Joseph swear he will bury him in Egypt, but instead take him back to the land of Canaan to be buried.

Jacob takes his family into Egypt in order to see Jospeh. In between the departure from the promised land and the reunification we get a genealogy of Jacob and his family. Seventy persons enter Egypt, the ideal and complete number. The chapter ends with the reuniting of Jacob and Joseph after twenty-two years.

Joseph finally reveals himself to his brothers and they are terrified. He comforts them and tells them not to worry because it was God's plan that he was sent into Egypt so that he could save a remnant of people for the Lord. Joseph instructs his brothers to go back and get their father and the rest of the family and bring them to Egypt. Jacob at first did not believe them but finally says his son is alive and he is ready to go to Egypt to see him before he dies.

Joseph sets up his final test to see what kind of men his brothers had become by placing his silver cup in Benjamin's sack. Benjamin is accused of stealing and is now to be a slave for life while the rest of the brothers may go free. So, will the brothers abandon Benjamin to slavery just as they did to Joseph 22 years prior, or will they stand by his side and risk their lives trying to free him?

Joseph tests his brothers when they return to Egypt to buy more grain. After they pass the first test Joseph sets them up for the ultimate test in chapter 44 where he gives them the opportunity to rid themselves of Benjamin forever. 

Joseph's brothers have to go to Egypt in order to buy grain, and while they are there, they encounter Joseph and bow down to him just as Joseph's dream foretold back in chapter 37. Joseph recognized them but they did not recognize him. Jospeh puts them to the test by sending nine of them back to Canaan while Simeon stays in prison. The others must bring Benjamin back in order to prove their innocence. 

Jospeh interprets the dreams of Pharoah and then tells him what he needs to do with the information. Pharoah puts Joseph in charge over Egypt so that the grain will be set aside for the coming famine so that they will not perish. 

Joseph interprets the dreams of Pharoah's chief cupbearer and chief baker who have been thrown into prison. 

Joseph was sold into Potiphar's house and falsely accused of assault and thrown into prison. 

A story of Judah and Tamar. A story of sin, deception, lying, sexual immorality, repentance, and redemption. God uses all these people in His redemptive story that bring forth His Son.

The beginning of the story of Joseph. Joseph was given a coat of many colors by his father Jacob, and he was hated by his brothers even more, and they sold him into slavery where Joseph ends up in Egypt. 

This chapter covers the genealogy of Esau. He has a very impressive line of chiefs and kings, but he resides outside the promised land. This is the last time Esau is mentioned in the book of Genesis. 

God calls Jacob back to Bethel to come and worship. On the way, Rachel dies giving birth to Benjamin. God reiterates the land and family promises with Jacob that his descendants will be as numerous as the stars, and they will inherit the promised land. The chapter ends with the death and burial of Isaac.

Jacob's daughter Dinah is raped by Shechem. In response, the sons of Jacob kill Shechem, his father Hamor, and the rest of the men in the city. 

Jacob meets back up with Esau after being gone for twenty years and reconciles with him. He then goes his separate way and ends up in Shechem where he builds an altar. The same place Abraham did in chapter 12 when he first entered the land of Canaan. God is now the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 

Jacob heads back to the promised land, but before he gets there, he wrestles all night with the Lord. The Lord changes him from the deceiver to the one who strives with God. 

Jacob flees Laban with his wives and flocks. Laban catches up with Jacob and confronts him. They finally make a covenant and Laban goes home and Jacob continues to Canaan. 

Leah and Rachel compete with one another to have more children, to the point where they both give their maidservants to Jacob to act as surrogates. Eleven of the twelve sons of Jacob are born. Jacob finishes his fourteen years of service and requests to leave, but Laban makes a deal for Jacob to stay. Jacob stays another six years to build his own flocks. 

Jacob arrives in Haran and meets Rachel. He works seven years for her, but Laban gives him Leah instead. Jacob was deceived and had to work another seven years for Rachel. Jacob loved Rachel, but it was Leah who gave him his first four sons. 

Jacob receives the blessing from Isaac and leaves to Haran to find a wife among Rebekah's family. On the way, Jacob encounters God and sees a ladder from heaven where angels ascend and descend from heaven. Jacob named the place Bethel, the house of God. 

Jacob deceives his father Isaac and steals Esau's blessing. 

A famine in the land causes Isaac to go to Gerar. God appears to Isaac and reconfirms the covenant He made with Abraham that He will be with him, He will bless him, and He will multiply his seed. 

The death of Abraham, the genealogies of Ishmael and Isaac, the birth of Jacob and Esau, and Esau sells his birthright. 

Abraham sends his servant back to his home country to find a wife for Isaac. 

Sarah dies and Abraham seeks a burial place for her in Hebron. He procures a cave and a field as his own possession beginning to fulfill God's promises to inherit the land. 

God calls Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac. This is a test of Abraham's faith and Abraham was found faithful and obedient to God's word. 

We see the birth of Isaac, the sending away of Hagar and Ishmael, and the oath made with Abimelech. 

Abraham travels to Gerar where he passes Sarah off as his sister just as he did in chapter 12 when they were in Egypt. Through divine intervention God intercedes and saves Abraham and Sarah once again. 

The Lord sends destruction upon the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. 

Chapter 18 covers the Lord's reiteration of Sarah having a son. The Lord also tells Abraham of the cry form Sodom of the great sin that is taking place and the He is going to see, and Abraham intercedes on behalf of the righteous if there be any. 

God renames Abram to Abraham, Sarai to Sarah and tells Abraham that Sara will have a son within a year, and he will be named Isaac. God reiterates his covenant with Abraham and calls for Abraham and all the males to be circumcised as a sign of the covenant. 

Hagar is given to Abraham, and she bore Ishmael. We'll see later on how this will impact Irael's future. 

Chapter 15 God reassures Abram of the promises made to him. The promise of descendants and the promise of land. Abram believed and it was accounted to him as righteousness. 

The kings of the east come and take Lot captive. Abram goes and rescues him and then we are introduced to Melchizedek, the king of Salem. 

Chapter 13 covers the separation of Abram and Lot and the reiteration that God will give Abram's descendants the land forever. 

Chapter 12 covers the call of Abraham that God will make him a great nation. A famine comes across the land and Abram and Sarai are forced into Egypt where Abram passes Sarai off as his sister so he would not be killed. Pharoah finds out and expels Abram and Sarai out of Egypt, but not before Abram becomes wealthy in the process. 

Genesis 11 gives us the Tower of Babel and the last genealogy of Shem before we get to the call of Abraham in chapter 12. 

Genesis chapter gives us the Table of Nations. All nations, tribes, and peoples come from the three sons of Noah. This demonstrates that God is the God of all people and all nations. 

In chapter 9, God makes His covenant with Noah to never destroy the earth by flood again. He also puts prohibitions and consequences around those who commit murder. The chapter ends with Noah's death, thus ending the toledot of the Sethite line. The story of Noah comes to an end, and in chapter 10 the table of nations are presented. The generations (toledot) of Noah's sons. 

The flood waters begin to recede, and Noah and his family leave the ark.