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Peralta – Study Guide –

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Exodus Notes and reminders:

* Exodus comes from the Greek word meaning departure.

*What is the Jewish Master Story?

The Jewish Master Story is the Exodus event: God liberates his people from
captivity and invites them into a relationship. They go back and forth in their
relationship with God - sometimes their relationship with God is good, sometimes
it needs work. Just like our lives today!

* Why is a Master Story important?

Beliefs about the world and ourselves rest on foundational stories that form us.
The Catholic Church pulls from the Jewish Master Story in our belief in the Holy
Eucharist – Passover is related – Moses as a faithful man, social justice issues,
the need to understand that struggle is part of life and our perseverance and faith
can pull us through tough times.

*The Exodus is the central event for the Jewish people because
It solidified the faith and relationship between God and the people.

*God freeing the enslaved Israelites makes the Book of Exodus a story of
liberation.

*“Fear of God” – WE see these words together repeatedly in the Old Testament.
They mean WE should stand in awe and respect of God and God’s power. Even
when our faith is tested be people or events in our lives.

*A modern day examples of oppression can be all of the following:

Students are being bullied
Children working in factories without out access to sanitary conditions or food
Women who are in domestic violent relationships
A dictatorship forcing their people to follow the government against their will.

* Why specifically did Pharaoh have the Israelite babies killed?

Pharaoh was concerned that the Israelites had become too numerous and
posed a threat.

* The midwives chose to disobey the Pharaoh, a heroic act that would have had
them killed if they were found out. They raised Moses and kept the secret
*Moses killed an Egyptian slave master in anger and has to flee to a place called
Midian where he becomes a shepherd.

*An example of theophany is what Moses saw at the burning bush on Mt. Sinai.

*When God called upon Moses to lead the Israelites, Moses

is hesitant and tries to get God to send someone else.

*Moses was hesitant to lead the people because:

He was nervous to speak in front of crowds and the Pharaoh
He was afraid they wouldn’t believe that the Lord appeared to him
He was not eloquent of speech

*What is God’s name as revealed to Moses?

Yahweh: “I Am Who Am” or just “I Am”.

*When Moses asks Pharaoh to release the Israelites from slavery and into the
wilderness, the Pharaoh, in anger, increases the labor of the Israelite slaves.

*Moses had a brother and sister named Aaron and Miriam.

*What role does Aaron play early in the Exodus story?

He serves as Moses’ speaker because Moses does not speak well.

*Pharaoh was a stubborn fellow who wanted to keep control of the Israelites, so
God had to bring plague after plague to finally break Pharaoh’s grip.

*Pharaoh is obstinate – stubborn – and the cycle of plagues (10) continues.

*The tenth plague had convinced Pharaoh to release the Israelites because
He was grief stricken when his firstborn son was killed.

*What is the original meaning of Passover?

It refers to a ritual meal that Jews consume to commemorate an important event
in Exodus and the Passover meal is closely related to the Catholic celebration of
Eucharist.

*Passover includes:
The night the Lord passed over the houses of Egypt marked by lamb’s blood
The night the firstborn children and animals were killed in houses not marked by lamb’s
blood
The feast that celebrates the deliverance of the Chosen People from bondage in Egypt
*Which description below characterizes the climactic moment in the story of
escape?
Moses parted the waters so that his liberated people could cross the sea to
safety, but the pursuing Egyptian soldiers were destroyed when the waters
rushed back together.

*What did the Israelites experience once Moses led them away from Egypt and
into the wilderness?
They were like a whiny bunch of children who complained that it would’ve better
to remain in Egypt and God provided them manna and quail to keep them fed
during the difficult time.

* Which statement below best explains why God gives the Commandments to
His people?
The Commandments teach people how to build a just and peaceful society and
how to live in right relationship to God.

* The Jewish people are called to follow many more laws and instructions than
just ten; in fact there are 613 laws of Torah.

*The worshiping of the golden calf by the Israelites, who were fed up with God
and Moses, happened right before Moses heading to Mt. Sinai where he
received the Ten Commandments from God.

*Moses had to persuade God not to kill the Israelites after they made the golden
calf. God was not pleased with the childish behavior and lack of faith the
Israelites were showing.

*The Ten Commandments are broken up into two main sections:

God; neighbor

*Ultimately, the Ten Commandments were laws help free the Israelites from sin
and selfishness.
* In any type of covenant, both sides have to agree to terms. When God speaks
to Moses in the Sinai Covenant, he explains that the Israelites must:
Be righteous, moral people who live by to the law.

*The story of Moses reminds us that leadership is sometimes what we are called
to do, not what we want to do.
*The last event in the Israelites face in the Book of Exodus is the wandering in
the desert that seems to last forever.

* Based on the story of the Israelites’ and their attempts to stay faithful to God
thru all of the trying times WE can that to have faith in God, the struggle is part of
the journey.

*Moses never entered the Promised Land; he died before the Israelites arrived.

*Joshua leads the Israelites into the Promised Land – Moses dies before he can
enter the Promised Land.