Epic Bible Sampler - Flipbook - Page 9
GET
OUT! AND TAKE
THE REST OF THE
ISRAELITES WITH
YOU!
GO AND
WORSHIP THE
LORD. GO, BUT
BLESS ME AS YOU
LEAVE.
JUST AS GOD HAD PROMISED THEIR FATHERS, AFTER 400 YEARS, THE ISRAELITES WERE LEAVING EGYPT.
THE EGYPTIANS GAVE THE HEBREWS CLOTHING AND SILVER AND GOLD, ANYTHING THEY WANTED AND
COULD CARRY. IT WAS A JOYOUS OCCASION FOR THE HEBREW PEOPLE; THE FIRST DAY OF A NEW NATION.
ABOUT 600,000 MEN, PLUS ALL
THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN, LEFT
RAMSES AND STARTED FOR SUCCOTH.
THE LORD GUIDED THEM DURING
THE DAY WITH A PILLAR OF CLOUD,
AND HE PROVIDED LIGHT AT NIGHT
WITH A PILLAR OF FIRE.
THEY FOLLOWED UNTIL THEY CAME INTO THE
MOUNTAINS AND UP AGAINST THE RED SEA. THERE THEY
CAMPED WHILE THEY DISCUSSED HOW THEY WERE
GOING TO GET ACROSS THE VAST BODY OF WATER.
EXODUS 12:31-38; 13:21-22; 14:1-4
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