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Day 24: Read Exodus 19-21What Is Happening?In Exodus 19, three months into the wilderness, Moses brought the people to M...
08/26/2026

Day 24: Read Exodus 19-21

What Is Happening?
In Exodus 19, three months into the wilderness, Moses brought the people to Mount Sinai. God came down upon the mountain in great smoke and fire. Moses made several trips back and forth between God and the people; they were to be kept at a safe distance, but Moses and Aaron were to come up to speak with God personally.
In Exodus 20, God gave Moses the Ten Commandments. He also reemphasized that they were never to have idols, and he gave instructions on the very simple altars they were to build for Him, altars that would be different from the ornate altars of the heathens for their idols.
In Exodus 21, God gave more laws, laws that would fit under the umbrella of the Ten Commandments. He would ultimately give more than 600 of them. Here, He gave laws concerning servitude and murder and assault and negligence and many other needed rules for a solid society.

Hard Words and Phrases:
Sanctify = clean them and set them apart. Come not at your wives = do not be intimate with them. Nether = lowest. In vain = in a light or irreverent manner. Covet = greatly desire. Aul = a boring tool, something like a hand drill. Come presumptuously to slay him with guile = pre-plan a murder. Quit = guiltless. Her fruit depart from her = she goes into labor and gives birth. No mischief follow = She and the baby are fine. Wont = prone to.

Interesting things to know:
Servitude and slavery were everywhere in the ancient world. But the way God had Israel do it was radically different; kindness and care were demanded by God, and it bore no resemblance to slavery in America. It was often even entered into voluntarily!

Application:
God is a God of law and order. We did not create and do not have our own universe; we are merely a part of His, so we are expected to obey.

Encouragement:
You now know the entire context of how the Ten Commandments were given to mankind. Go you!


Day 23: Read Exodus 16-18What Is Happening?In Exodus 16, the Israelites started complaining almost immediately; it would...
08/25/2026

Day 23: Read Exodus 16-18

What Is Happening?
In Exodus 16, the Israelites started complaining almost immediately; it would be like that for forty years. They were hungry; not starving, just hungry. God then began a six-day-a-week, forty-year miracle; He sent Manna from heaven down to feed millions of people every day. He also, for this one day and then for another single day later, sent massive amounts of quail for them to eat.
In Exodus 17, there was no water, and the people complained again and even threatened to stone Moses; it never seemed to occur to any of them to simply ask sweetly. God had Moses strike a rock, and a stream of water came out plentiful enough for everyone.
The nation of Amalek came out into the wilderness to try to destroy Israel. Moses had Joshua lead the fight for Israel, and Israel won, with a miraculous assist from God, Moses, and two men who held up the arms of their leader.
In Exodus 18, Moses’ father-in-law, Jethro (elsewhere called Reul or Raguel) came out into the wilderness to visit him. He brought Moses’ wife and two sons to him; they had been at home while Moses confronted Pharaoh and rescued the people.
Jethro watched the next day as Moses listened to people's problems with each other all day long. He wisely suggested that Moses appoint good men to handle most of those petty things, and Moses did so.

Hard Words and Phrases:
Murmurings = complaints. Wist not = did not know. Mete = measure. Omer = a dry measure of about 2 liters. Notwithstanding = in spite of that. Seethe = boil or cook. The testimony = the ark of the covenant (once it was made). Ephah = a dry measure of about 20 liters. Chide = quarreled. Discomfitted = routed, badly beat. Did obeisance = bowed in reverence. Travail = hardship.

Interesting things to know:
The Manna was not earthly stuff; Psalm 78:25 calls it angel’s food!

Application:
The people followed God, and God met their needs. That is the way God always designs it to work.

Encouragement:
God knew all the bad things you would ever do, and still loved you enough to make you!

Day 22: Read Exodus 13-15What Is Happening?In Exodus 13, the first sixteen verses are taken up with God setting up perma...
08/24/2026

Day 22: Read Exodus 13-15

What Is Happening?
In Exodus 13, the first sixteen verses are taken up with God setting up permanent remembrances for Israel to never forget that original Passover. They were to eat only unleavened bread to remember that they were thrown out of the land so quickly that they had not even had the time to make regular bread. They were to sacrifice the firstborn of animals and redeem the firstborn baby boys to remember that God slew the firstborn of Egypt.
In verses 17-21, God took them on a roundabout route as they went into the wilderness so they would not have to fight the Philistines. He also gave them the pillar of a cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night that stayed with them for forty years.
In Exodus 14, God did one of the greatest miracles of all time. Pharaoh changed his mind about letting the people go, and came after them with his army. God parted the Red Sea to let Israel pass, and then collapsed it on the pursuing Egyptians.
In Exodus 15, Moses and the people celebrated and sang about what God had done. But then they turned right around three days later and started complaining when they found only bitter water to drink. God did a miracle and made the water sweet and drinkable for them.

Hard Words and Phrases:
Matrix = womb. Firstling = firstborn. Redeem = buy back, rescue. Frontlets = little boxes on the forehead. With an high hand = boldly. Congealed = gelatinized, made like jello. Murmured = complained. Diligently hearken = pay careful attention.

Interesting things to know:
Joseph commanded that his bones be taken out of Egypt. Many years later, they were; someone carried them for forty years until they could bury him in Canaan!

Application:
The Children of Israel celebrated the great thing God did. We should still celebrate and praise God for the great things He has done and the great things He still does.

Encouragement:
Christians, love each other. Just like Israel, we are all heading toward the same destination together, so we may as well get along on the journey!

Day 21: Read Exodus 10-12What Is Happening?In Exodus 10, God sent the eighth plague on Egypt: locusts. Those bugs descen...
08/23/2026

Day 21: Read Exodus 10-12

What Is Happening?
In Exodus 10, God sent the eighth plague on Egypt: locusts. Those bugs descended by the billions and ate all the remaining vegetation in the land. Pharaoh again said that he would let them go, and again changed his mind when the bugs were gone. Then came the ninth plague: three days of supernatural darkness, so dark that it could be felt. Israel, though, had normal light right next door to them in Goshen. Once again, Pharaoh would not be moved.
In Exodus 11, God and Moses prepared their people for the final plague, the Passover. God would kill all the firstborn of man and beast in all the land of Egypt. Moses told Pharaoh this to his face, and yet, Pharaoh would not budge. Moses then stormed out in furious anger.
In Exodus 12, God gave instructions for the night. Each family was to kill a lamb and put some of its blood on the top and sides of the door frame. Wherever the destroyer saw that, he would pass over (Passover) that house, and no one would die. This was to be commemorated by them every year, from generation to generation, forever.
At midnight, the LORD struck; every household in Egypt immediately had a death. Pharaoh immediately changed his mind (too late for his son) and demanded that Israel leave Egypt, and they did.

Hard Words and Phrases:
Shew = show. Borrow = ask (when they used “borrow,” it usually did not mean something to be repaid, as it does when we use it). Souls = people, individuals. Sodden = boiled. Purtenance = the midsection. Loins girded = hips and midsection clothed. Convocation = assembly of the people. Ordinance = statute, custom. Hyssop = hyssop was a particular plant. Will not suffer = will not allow. Tarry = hang around. Victual = food.

Interesting things to know:
The Jews still celebrate the Passover to this day, 3500 years or so and counting. It is the oldest continuously practiced religious festival on earth, and a tremendous proof of the Biblical record.

Application:
All of this was God painting a picture for us of the day His Son, the Lamb of God, would be slain for us. Whoever has that blood applied to the door of their heart will never need to fear the destroyer!

Encouragement:
The Bible is history, not mythology, and you can trust it!

Day 20: Read Exodus 7-9What Is Happening?In Exodus 7, Moses and Aaron again confronted Pharaoh. Aaron threw down his sta...
08/22/2026

Day 20: Read Exodus 7-9

What Is Happening?
In Exodus 7, Moses and Aaron again confronted Pharaoh. Aaron threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. The Egyptian magicians did the same, but Aaron’s snake/rod ate theirs. Pharaoh would not give in. So God then brought the first plague: the waters of Egypt were turned to blood. A week passed, and still, Pharaoh would not give in.
In Exodus 8, God sent the second plague: frogs covered the land of Egypt, even inside all the houses. Still, Pharaoh would not give in. Then came the third plague: Egypt was immediately covered and swarming with lice. Still, Pharaoh refused to back down. Then came the fourth plague: flies covered the entire land. Pharaoh pretended to back down, then, when the flies were removed, went right back to not giving in.
In Exodus 9, God sent the fifth plague: all the cattle of Egypt got sick and died. Pharaoh still refused to budge. Then the sixth plague: every person and every animal in Egypt was smitten with agonizing sores all over their bodies. Pharaoh still refused to let the people go. Then came the seventh plague: a supernatural hail mixed with fire devastated all the crops of Egypt. For all of this, Pharaoh still refused to give in.

Hard Words and Phrases:
Against he come = to confront him. Hitherto = up until this point. Lothe = find it disgusting. Bedchamber = bedroom. Kneadingtroughs = kneading bowls. Respite = relief. Sever = section off. Meet so to do = appropriate for us to do so. Murrain = cattle plague. Blains = blisters.

Interesting things to know:
God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, but not until after Pharaoh rejected him in Exodus 5:2.

Application:
Egypt took a needless beating because of Pharaoh’s stubbornness. That is almost always the way it works: if you get stubborn against God, others will hurt because of your choice.

Encouragement:
You are reading ancient history because God loved you enough to write it down for you!

Drunkenness and sexual deviancy are linked throughout Scripture (especially in the writings of the prophets) and are sti...
08/21/2026

Drunkenness and sexual deviancy are linked throughout Scripture (especially in the writings of the prophets) and are still linked in modern life. (P.40, link in comments.)

Day 19: Read Exodus 4-6What Is Happening?In Exodus 4, God was trying to send Moses back into Egypt to deliver the people...
08/21/2026

Day 19: Read Exodus 4-6

What Is Happening?
In Exodus 4, God was trying to send Moses back into Egypt to deliver the people from bo***ge. But even after giving him a couple of miraculous signs to encourage and convince him, Moses kept trying to get out of it. Finally, God got him to go by telling Moses He would let Aaron, Moses’ brother, do the actual talking. Moses went and spoke to his people, and they believed and worshiped.
In Exodus 5, Moses and Aaron confronted Pharaoh, and he refused to let the people go. In fact, he decided to make things worse: instead of providing straw for the people to make bricks, he made them go scrounge for it, and then had them beaten when they made fewer bricks. The people then turned on Moses and Aaron, which was an unfortunate sign of things to come for the next forty years.
In Exodus 6, God told Moses to go speak to Israel and to Pharaoh again. The chapter ends with an accounting of the tribes and family heads of Israel.

Hard Words and Phrases:
Leprous = diseased with leprosy. Heretofore = before. Dumb = unable to speak. Pestilence = a plague. Tale = amount. Evil case = a bad situation. Minish = diminish, come up short. Savour = scent. Evil entreated = treated badly. Uncircumcised lips = I cannot speak well.

Interesting things to know:
The odd-sounding scene where Moses’ wife accuses him of being a bloody man dealt with circumcision. Jewish parents knew they were supposed to circumcise all their baby boys, and yet Moses, the man who was supposed to lead them, had not done so to his. This seems to have been because his wife was against it, and he went along with her. God was going to kill him until Zipporah quickly circumcised their son, then voiced her displeasure at all of it.

Application:
Leaders especially will not get a pass on disobedience. No one is “too important” to God for God to allow them to rebel.

Encouragement:
When you read the Bible, you are reading something that cleans you from the inside out!

Habakkuk went to a watching place, and God answered. When he did, Habakkuk, who seemed to think that God had missed some...
08/20/2026

Habakkuk went to a watching place, and God answered. When he did, Habakkuk, who seemed to think that God had missed some things, realized He had actually missed nothing at all. (P.34 link in comments.)

Day 18: Read Exodus 1-3What Is Happening?In Exodus 1, many years had passed since the days of Joseph, and a new Pharaoh ...
08/20/2026

Day 18: Read Exodus 1-3

What Is Happening?
In Exodus 1, many years had passed since the days of Joseph, and a new Pharaoh did not remember the debt of gratitude all of Egypt owed Joseph. Seeing how Israel had multiplied, Pharaoh put plans in place to enslave and then exterminate them. Were it not for two brave midwives who feared God, he might have succeeded. Frustrated, Pharaoh commanded all his people to throw any Hebrew baby boys into the Nile River to die.
In Exodus 2, under this dark cloud of terror, a Hebrew family had a baby boy. They hid him for three months, and then, unable to hide him any longer, trusted God with him in the best way they knew how: they put him in a little waterproof basket in the reeds of the Nile River.
Pharaoh’s daughter came by, found him, and had compassion on him. She let him live and decided to keep him. Little Moses’ sister, Miriam, saw all of this, and offered to get a Hebrew woman to nurse and raise the child for her. Moses’ own mother got to keep and raise him for the next 3-5 years!
Finally, he went to live in the palace and grew up there. But at forty years old, he picked a side: God’s side. He killed an Egyptian who was hurting a Hebrew (another word for an Israelite) and then had to run for his own life. He ended up as a simple shepherd in the land of Midian.
In Exodus 3, God appeared to him in a burning bush and told him He wanted him to go back into Egypt to begin to deliver his people.

Hard Words and Phrases:
Rigour = cruelty. Midwives = ladies who delivered babies. Daubed = coated. Pitch = tar. Flags = reeds. To wit = to know. Token = sign. Beseech = plead with.

Interesting things to know:
Moses’ sister, Miriam, was only six years old when she bravely asked Pharaoh’s daughter if she wanted her to get a Hebrew woman to nurse the child for her!

Application:
When God says He will deliver, He will deliver. And when He says He will save, He will save!

Encouragement:
Things are about to get pretty exciting; keep reading each day and find out about it!

Day 17: Read Genesis 48-50What Is Happening?In Genesis 48, Jacob was very sick and drawing ever nearer to death. Joseph ...
08/19/2026

Day 17: Read Genesis 48-50

What Is Happening?
In Genesis 48, Jacob was very sick and drawing ever nearer to death. Joseph and his two boys, Manasseh and Ephraim, came to see him. Jacob put his hands on the boys' heads to bless them, but intentionally put his right hand on the younger, signifying that he would be greater than the older. The chapter ends with Jacob promising Joseph that God would bring him into Canaan again.
In Genesis 49, Jacob gathered all of his sons together to prophesy what things would be like for them in years to come. It was then that he ripped several of them for their past wickedness, and proclaimed curses on them. Judah, though, was very much singled out for praise, and proclaimed to the one through whom the Messiah would come. The chapter ends with him again getting the boys to promise to bury him in Canaan, and then him dying.
In Genesis 50, Jacob was embalmed, and his family carried him back to Canaan for burial. A large number of Egyptians came along with them to mourn; they clearly had a lot of respect for the old patriarch. After his death, the brothers feared that Joseph would take revenge on them for selling him into slavery. He assured them he would never do so. The chapter and the book ends with the death of Joseph.

Hard Words and Phrases:
Thy issue = your kids. Come not thou unto their secret = don’t be part of their secret plans. Sceptre = ruling rod. Shiloh = the Messiah. The word means “he whose it (the ruling rod) is.” Adder = horned snake. Hind = deer. Progenitors = father and grandfather. Ravin = tear in pieces. Lamentation = weeping, crying. Requite = pay back.

Interesting things to know:
All of the prophecies Jacob gave concerning the future of his sons came true in every detail!

Application:
The Jews were comfortable in Egypt, but Egypt was never home. We may be comfortable in the world, but this world is not our home either!

Encouragement:
Pray again. Whatever it is, pray again!

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