February 3, 2026
“Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens” (Exodus 18:21 ESV). Moses wrote this passage to Israel to describe how the LORD used Jethro’s counsel
January 31, 2026
“It was a night of watching by the LORD, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the LORD by all the people of Israel throughout their generations” (Exodus 12:42 ESV). Moses wrote to the people of Israel to explain the meaning of
January 29, 2026
“So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people of Israel go, just as the LORD had spoken through Moses” (Exodus 9:35 ESV). By the time we reach this verse, Pharaoh had seen plague after plague and still refused to let God’s people go. Moses recorded that “Pharaoh’s heart was
January 28, 2026
“God spoke to Moses and said to him, ‘I am the LORD. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.’” (Exodus 6:2–3 ESV). In this passage, God spoke to Moses at a moment when Israel groaned under
January 27, 2026
“At a lodging place on the way the Lord met him and sought to put him to death” (Exodus 4:24 ESV). In this strange and startling scene, Moses had already been called to deliver Israel from Egypt, yet on the journey back, the LORD confronted him with a life-threatening judgment. The context seems to show
February 13, 2025
“And they came, everyone whose heart stirred him, and everyone whose spirit moved him, and brought the LORD’s contribution to be used for the tent of meeting” (Exodus 35:21 ESV). When Moses put the word out to the people of Israel, calling them to bring their contributions for the building of the Tent of Meeting,
February 12, 2025
“So he 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 ESV). Moses communed with the Lord for 40 days, during which time he fasted from food and water, having no
February 11, 2025
‘And the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock, and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by.”‘ (Exodus 33:21-22 ESV). The Lord hid Moses in
February 8, 2025
“And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty” (Exodus 28:2 ESV). Today’s Old Testament reading from the One Year Bible’s assignment from the book of Exodus, continues the description of the Tabernacle’s design, furnishings, and now the design of the priestly garments. It is very detailed. For the
February 6, 2025
“And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD” (Exodus 24:4 ESV). The first five books of the Bible were written by Moses under God’s inspiration. This is how the Bible came to be: God spoke and men wrote. Paradoxically both fully human and fully divine. The Bible contains sixty-six books written by over