ILLUSTRATED BIBLE STORY

God Sends Moses to EgyptEXODUS CHAPTERS 3-12

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MOSES!

IT WAS JEHOVAH SPEAKINGTHROUGH AN ANGEL.

MOSES!

HEREI AM.

I AM THE GODOF YOUR FOREFATHERS.

MY PEOPLE, THE ISRAELITES,ARE SUFFERING IN EGYPT. LET MESEND YOU TO SPEAK TO PHARAOH.

YOU ARE TO BRING MY PEOPLEOUT OF EGYPT.

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MOSES AND HIS BROTHER, AARON, WENTTO APPEAR BEFORE PHARAOH.

JEHOVAH SAYS:“SEND MY PEOPLEAWAY SO THAT THEYMAY SERVE ME INTHE WILDERNESS.”

WHO IS JEHOVAH?I AM NOT GOINGTO SEND ISRAEL

AWAY.

AARON EVEN PERFORMED A MIRACLE BEFORE PHARAOH TOSHOW THAT GOD HAD SENT THEM. (SEE EXODUS 7:8-13.)

BUT PHARAOH WAS STUBBORN. HE WOULDNOT LET JEHOVAH’S PEOPLE LEAVE EGYPT.

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NEXT, JEHOVAH BROUGHTNINE PLAGUES ON EGYPT.

THE NILE RIVER TURNED INTO BLOOD.

FROGS COVERED THE LAND.

TINY INSECTS CALLEDGNATS SWARMEDHUMANS AND ANIMALS.

GADFLIES INVADED HOUSESAND RUINED THE LAND.

DISEASES KILLED MANY OF THE ANIMALS.

THE EGYPTIANS AND THEIR ANIMALSHAD PAINFUL BOILS WITH BLISTERS.

A HAILSTORM AND FIRE RUINED THE FIELDSAND KILLED PEOPLE AND ANIMALS.

LOCUSTS, A KIND OF GRASSHOPPER,ATE UP THE VEGETATION LEFT OVERAFTER THE DESTRUCTIVE HAILSTORM.

DARKNESS COVERED THELAND FOR THREE DAYS.

BUT PHARAOH REFUSED TOSEND THE ISRAELITES AWAY.

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MOSES AND AARON WENTTO SEE PHARAOH AGAIN.

JEHOVAH HAS SAID:“I AM GOING TO BRING ONEMORE PLAGUE ON EGYPT.ABOUT MIDNIGHT, EVERY

FIRSTBORN SONWILL DIE.”

SURE ENOUGH, THAT VERY NIGHT, JEHOVAHSENT HIS ANGEL TO KILL THE FIRSTBORN SONIN EVERY GOD-DEFYING EGYPTIAN HOME . . .

INCLUDING PHARAOH’SSON. (SEE PSALM 78:49-51.)

GET UP,GO, SERVE

JEHOVAH, JUSTAS YOU HAVE

STATED.

ALL OF THE ISRAELITES WERE FINALLYALLOWED TO LEAVE EGYPT.

BUT THE ISRAELITES WERE NOT YET OUT OFDANGER. HOW DID JEHOVAH PROTECT THEM?FIND OUT IN OUR NEXT ILLUSTRATED BIBLE STORY.

WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM THISSTORY?WHY DID PHARAOH NOT LISTEN TO MOSESAND AARON?

CLUE: EXODUS 9:17; PSALM 66:6, 7.

HOW WAS MOSES DIFFERENT FROMPHARAOH?

CLUE: NUMBERS 12:3.

WHY DO YOU THINK IT IS BETTER TO BEMEEK AND MILD RATHER THAN ARROGANT ANDSTUBBORN?

CLUE: PSALM 37:11; ZECHARIAH 7:8-12.

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