Exodus 1:1-2:25

Memory Verse: Exodus 2:24

I. The Slave Masters Oppressed Them (1:1-22)

1. Who was Jacob (Israel)? (1-5) Where was his homeland and why did he and his family move to Egypt? (Gen. 35:27, 37:28, 42:5, 45:4-5, 46:1-4) How was God working just as he had always planned? (6-7; Gen. 15:13-21) What can we learn about God?

2. How had Israel's situation change during their sojourn there? (8-10) Was the reason for their oppression just? What was God doing through their oppression? (Rom. 5:3-4) Did Israel understand this at that time?

3. What unjust command did the king of Egypt give? (15-16) Why did the midwives disobey the king? (17-19) How did God bless their faith? (20-21) What did not change? (22) What can we learn about a life of faith in the Lord during hard times? (Rom. 12:9-21)

II. She Named Him Moses (2:1-10)

4. What did Moses' mother do by faith? (1-2, Heb. 11:23) What kind of faith did they display? (Luke 12:4-7) When hiding him proved hard, what other action did his mother take by faith? (3-4) What can we learn about faith? (Rom. 1:17, James 2:18-20)

5. By what unusual method was Moses saved? (5-6) What was God's plan for Moses? (Acts 7:21-22)

6. How did God use Moses' sister to bless his mother's faith? (7-9) Why might her act have been bold?

7. Why might an Egyptian who found a baby floating in the Nile consider him special? (10) What can we learn about God from this? (Job 37:5, Mat. 9:22, 15:28)

III. God Looked on the Israelites (2:11-25)

8. Why might Moses have not known the condition his people were living in? (11-12, Acts 7:23) Why did he kill the Egyptian? (Acts 7:24-25) How was he right and yet wrong? (3:7-10; Deut. 32:35) What was the result of his presumptions and misguided faith? (13-15)

9. How was Moses rescue of the priest's daughters different from his rescue of the two Israelites? (16-17) How did God bless a righteous act? (18-22)

10. During Moses' forty years in Midian what kind of life did his fellow Hebrews have? (23) Why did God remember them? (24-25)