Bible Sprint Day 3

Questions:

1. How much is in an omer?
1. Ex 16:36 – 1/10 of 3 measures
2. Is Exodus 18:6-12 Jethro’s conversion?
3. Is Ex 21:37 part of Zaccheus’s repentance?
4. Exodus 26:27 What is meant by “toward the sea”? Wouldn’t that change?
5. How many sons did Levi have? Where is a genealogy of Levi?
6. What percentage of the people was killed in Ex 32:28?

Observations:

1. Ex 17:5-7 Moses strikes the rock because he is told to be.
2. Ex 18:6 Moses didn’t have his wife with him the whole time he was back in Egypt.
3. Exodus 20:20 is a verse to remember.
4. Exodus 21:23-24 “eye for an eye” is actually a restraint. (This observation is not my own but I figured it is worth noting since most people don’t understand it that way.)
5. Exodus 23:22a First use of “special people,” “royal priesthood,” “holy nation.”
1. Israel was to be a priest to the nations yet had their own priests. This is similar to how the priesthood in the Church now functions.
6. Exodus 32:4 Aaron made the calf with a tool and in 32:34 he says it “appeared from the fire.”
7. Exodus 38:22 There is a mention of Korah’s rebellion which doesn’t happen in the narrative until Numbers 16. The censers were melted down and made into pegs for the Tabernacle.
8. Psalm 50 (51) refers to Leviticus 4:1-12.

Bible Sprint Day 2

Questions:

1. What is the connection between Genesis 39:12 and the naked man in Mark? Is there one?
2. Genesis 49:31 – Why the change to a first person singular pronoun?
3. What connection is there between the slaughter of the innocents in Exodus 1 and the slaughter of the innocents in Matthew?
4. What is the significance of the three signs of Moses in Exodus 4?

Observations:

1. In Exodus 7, God says to wave the rod over the water and Aaron strikes the water. Later, God says speak to the rock and Moses strikes it. One is acceptable, the other is not.
1. Ex7 strike/wave/strike
2. Exodus 7 “strike” with blood, “smite” with frogs.
3. Ex 12:43-51 Only members of Israel could eat the OT Paschal meal. Only members of the New Israel may eat the NT Paschal meal.
4. Ex 13:1-2, 11-16 Verses to remember for later
1. God claims the lives of the firstborn of all who were in Egypt for the first Pascha. The Egyptians and their livestock he kills while the faithful Israelites he gives the chance to redeem their firstborn
1. Israelites were proven faithful by complying with God’s commands, esp. the doorposts.
5. Exodus 14:19 There were both an angel and a cloud going before Israel.