Exodus #catechesis/bible/exodus
Old Testament · The 7 Books · part of Old Testament → Bible
Chapters
- Exodus 1 — The Israelites are multiplied in Egypt. They are oppressed by a new king, who commands all their male children to be killed.
- Exodus 2 — Moses is born and exposed on the bank of the river; where he is taken up by the daughter of Pharao, and adopted for her son. He kills an Egyptian, and flees into Madian; where he marries a wife.
- Exodus 3 — God appears to Moses in a bush, and sends him to deliver Israel.
- Exodus 4 — Moses is empowered to confirm his mission with miracles: his brother Aaron is appointed to assist him.
- Exodus 5 — Pharao refuses to let the people go. They are more oppressed.
- Exodus 6 — God renews his promise. The genealogies of Ruben, Simon and Levi, down to Moses and Aaron.
- Exodus 7 — Moses and Aaron go into Pharao: they turn the rod into a serpent; and the waters of Egypt into blood, which was the first plague. The magicians do the like, and Pharao’s heart is hardened.
- Exodus 8 — The second plague is of frogs: Pharao promises to let the Israelites go, but breaks his promise. The third plague is of sciniphs. The fourth is of flies. Pharao again promises to dismiss the people, but does it not.
- Exodus 9 — The fifth plague is a murrain among the cattle. The sixth, of boils in men and beasts. The seventh, of hail. Pharao promises again to let the people go, and breaks his word.
- Exodus 10 — The eighth plague of the locusts. The ninth, of darkness: Pharao is still hardened.
- Exodus 11 — Pharao and his people are threatened with the death of their firstborn.
- Exodus 12 — The manner of preparing, and eating the paschal lamb: the firstborn of Egypt are all slain: the Israelites depart.
- Exodus 13 — The paschal solemnity is to be observed; and the firstborn are to be consecrated to God. The people are conducted through the desert by a pillar of fire in the night, and a cloud in the day.
- Exodus 14 — Pharao pursues the children of Israel. They murmur against Moses, but are encouraged by him, and pass through the Red Sea. Pharao and his army following them are drowned.
- Exodus 15 — The canticle of Moses. The bitter waters of Mara are made sweet.
- Exodus 16 — The people murmur for want of meat: God gives them quails and manna.
- Exodus 17 — The people murmur again for want of drink; the Lord gives them water out of a rock. Moses lifts up his hands in prayer, and Amalek is overcome.
- Exodus 18 — Jethro brings to Moses his wife and children. His counsel.
- Exodus 19 — They come to Sinai: the people are commanded to be sanctified. The Lord, coming in thunder and lightning, speaks with Moses.
- Exodus 20 — The ten commandments.
- Exodus 21 — Laws relating to Justice.
- Exodus 22 — The punishment of theft, and other trespasses. The law of lending without usury, of taking pledges of reverences to superiors, and of paying tithes.
- Exodus 23 — Laws for judges; the rest of the seventh year, and day: three principal feasts to be solemnized every year; the promise of an angel, to conduct and protect them: idols are to be destroyed.
- Exodus 24 — Moses writes his law; and after offering sacrifices, sprinkles the blood of the testament upon the people: then goes up the mountain which God covers with a fiery cloud.
- Exodus 25 — Offerings prescribed for making the tabernacle, the ark, the candlestick, etc.
- Exodus 26 — The form of the tabernacle with its appurtenances.
- Exodus 27 — The altar; and the court of the tabernacle with its hangings and pillars. Provision of oil for lamps.
- Exodus 28 — The holy vestments for Aaron and his sons.
- Exodus 29 — The manner of consecrating Aaron and other priests; the institution of the daily sacrifice of two lambs, one in the morning, the other at evening.
- Exodus 30 — The altar of incense: money to be gathered for the use of the tabernacle: the brazen laver: the holy oil of unction, and the composition of the perfume.
- Exodus 31 — Beseleel and Ooliab are appointed by the Lord to make the tabernacle, and the things belonging thereto. The observation of the sabbath day is again commanded. And the Lord delivers to Moses two tables written with the finger of God.
- Exodus 32 — The people fall into idolatry. Moses prays for them. He breaks the tables: destroys the idol: blames Aaron, and causes many of the idolaters to be slain.
- Exodus 33 — The people mourn for their sin. Moses pitches the tabernacle outside the camp. He converses familiarly with God. Desires to see his glory.
- Exodus 34 — The tables are renewed: all society with the Canaanites is forbid: some precepts concerning the firstborn, the sabbath, and other feasts: after forty days’ fast, Moses returns to the people with the commandments, and his face appearing horned with rays of light, he covers it, whensoever he speaks to the people.
- Exodus 35 — The sabbath. Offerings for making the tabernacle. Beseleel and Ooliab are called to the work.
- Exodus 36 — The offerings are delivered to the workmen, the curtains, coverings, boards, bars, veil, pillars, and hanging are made.
- Exodus 37 — Beseleel makes the ark: the propitiatory, and cherubims, the table, the candlestick, the lamps, and the altar of incense, and compounds the incense.
- Exodus 38 — He makes the altar of holocaust. The brazen laver. The court with its pillars and hangings. The sum of what the people offered.
- Exodus 39 — All the ornaments of Aaron and his sons are made. And the whole work of the tabernacle is finished.
- Exodus 40 — The tabernacle is commanded to be set up and anointed. God fills it with his majesty.
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