God Responds to Moses' Questions

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At the end of Chapter 5, Moses asks two questions of the Lord:

  1. Why have you brought evil upon the people?
  2. Why did you send me here for ever since I came, nothing but hardship has come upon them?

In this chapter God answers those questions. "I brought you to Egypt to show many wonders to Pharaoh. I am the God who established a covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and I will bring you out of the bondage of Egypt." Moses went and told the people what the Lord had told him but the people's spirit was broken and they would not listen to him.

Them the Lord ordered Moses to go to Pharaoh and tell him to let the people go but Moses hesitated. "If the people won't listen to me, why should Pharaoh?" The chapter closes with the genealogy of the first 3 sons of Jacob, Reuben, Simeon and Levi. Of importance here are the ancestors of Levi. Levi had three sons that established the three families that tended the Tabernacle, Gershon, Ko-hath and Marar-i. The purpose of the Lord bringing this up at this time was to establish Moses' and Aaron's credentials as being in the linage of Levi.

The linage was:

Amram married Jock-ebed, his father's sister. Thus he married his Aunt. Both Amram and Jock-ebed were Levites. All this was to establish that Moses and Aaron were Levites.


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