The Moses Dictionary

Exodus is literally all about Moses. In the chapters we read, God looks out for Moses and tells him he has to go to Egypt and save the "children of Israel". At the beginning, Moses hides from God, and from all the questions he makes, he seems really insecure about that. He keeps asking God how he will do this and how will he do that; for me it seems like someone else might have done a better job than him. " But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee (4:1)."

Seriously, Moses has lots of questions, but God basically answers all of them saying that he can just do magic and things that would surprise the pharaohs in Egypt, so that they would believe he was a messenger of God. Moses' task was to go to Egypt, talk the pharaoh into letting all his people go with some dark help from God, and leave. Even if Moses wasn't too sure about it, he left.

When he finally got to Egypt, as expected, the Pharaoh just said no and wouldn't listen to Moses. He did some of the tricks God had told him to do, like throwing a rod to the floor and as it fell it converted into a snake, and when he touched it, it turned into a rod back again.

The pharaoh still didn't believe him, so God, Moses, and the person who was in charge of all the talking, Aaron, had to take extreme measures. That was when God sent them the 10 plagues, in which the water turned into blood, frogs, lice, flies, livestock diseased, boils, thunder and hail, locusts, darkness, and the death of the firstborn. Basically, any civilization would be dead if they were put to these ten plagues. So as one might expect, the pharaoh gave in and they agreed to give them back their people. God institutes some rules, and after everyone was recovered back, they sang in joy to God.

Later, God gave the commandments, which in my opinion are the exact reason why Exodus is famous. Moses repeated some commandments, and until there we read.

This is a pretty known story, and it is really nice. I don't think it is fair that God could do all these to the innocent people in Egypt, just because the pharaoh wasn't kind enough to let the Israel people out. That is my opinion but I think I might be the only person in the world who thinks that. So yeah, see you later!