Bible Overview 08 - Moses

The children of Israel numbered about 70 people when they entered Egypt as invited guests during the time of Joseph. Over 400 years later they numbered alost 2 million, flourishing in the land of Goshen.

The new Pharaoh did not know Joseph and now saw the Israelites as a threat to Egyptian national security. So the Egyptians turned the Jews into slaves and placed great burdens on them.

The people cried out to God, who sent them a deliverer: Moses, who would lead them out of Egypt into the Wilderness. At Sinai, God would give His people a code to live by: the Law.

Though god delievered the people by His mighty hand, nonetheless, they grumbled against Him in the wilderness. It would take forty years and the death of an entire generation before Israel would be ready to take the Promised Land.