Do your work for six days but rest on the seventh day so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave as well as the resident alien may be refreshed (Exodus 23:12 CSB). Three thoughts to consider from today’s chapter: We need to...

You must not exploit a resident alien or oppress him, since you were resident aliens in the land of Egypt. You must not mistreat any widow or fatherless child (Exodus 22:21-22 CSB). If you’ve never read Exodus before, you are likely beginning to see that the Ten Commandments weren’t the...

When a man uncovers a pit or digs a pit, and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, the owner of the pit must give compensation; he must pay to its owner, but the dead animal will become his (Exodus 21:33-34 CSB). While it...

Then God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery (Exodus 20:1-2 CSB). The Ten Commandments -- God used them to tell His people how to remain faithful to Him and how to...

…and the Lord told Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people” (Exodus 19:10-11 CSB)....

“What you are doing is not good,” Moses’s father-in-law said to him. “You will certainly wear out both yourself and these people who are with you, because the task is too heavy for you. You can’t do it alone” (Exodus 18:17-18 CSB).  Ahhh…the wisdom of elders. The need to possibly...

When Moses' hands grew heavy, they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat down on it. Then Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other so that his hands remained steady until the sun went down. (Exodus 17:12 CSB)....

The entire Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness (Exodus 16:2 CSB). When I read Exodus, I often look at the Israelites and wonder why they just don’t get it. Here they are in the desert, having been set free from slavery in Egypt, and they are...

Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord. They said: “I will sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted; he has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea” (Exodus 15:1 CSB).  At the beginning of Chapter 15, Moses stops to celebrate what God...

They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Isn’t this what we said to you in Egypt: Leave us alone so that...