Reading for July 26th

 Read Exodus 2.11-25. In 2.11-25: Moses kills an Egyptian and flees to Midian. In verse 11; The story Moses immediately from Moses as a baby (2.1-10) to Moses as an adult. In verse 13: The Hebrew verb to strike ("nakah") is the same verb used in v. 12 when Moses killed the Egyptian, On v. 11 when the Egyptian is beating the Hebrew, and the word used as God "strikes" Egypt with the plagues later in the story (3.20; 12.12-13). In verse 15: Genesis 25.2 portrays the people of Midian as descended from Abraham and Keturah. They are a wandering people associated with the Sinai Peninsula south of Canaan and with northern Arabia, which lies east and north of Canaan. In verse 18: The name Moses' father-in-law is Reuel here, but the name varies in other biblical traditions. His name is some times Jethro (3.1; 18.1) or Hobab (Num 10,29, Judg 4.11). In verse 22; Moses gives his sons the name Gershom as a wordplay on the word for alien (ger") in a sense, Moses is an alien or stranger in every land. The Midianites consider him as "Egyptian" (2.19). The Egyptians seek to kill him as a Hebrew sympathizer (2.15). The Hebrews reject him as not one of their own (2.14). In verse 23-24; God heard Israel's cry of distress and God remembered his covenant or promise made to Israel's ancestors in Genesis (Abraham--Gen 15,12-16; Isaac--26,24; Jacob--35.11-12). Comments or Questions..