• New revelation of Hashem 6:2-5
  Unlike that to Avraham, Yitzhak, Yaakov
  Reiteration of the Covenant

• Message to Israel 6:6-9

  Four expressions of redemption	Stages of bondage
  * I will bring you out from the burdens	Alienation
  * I will rescue you	Slavery
  * I will redeem you	Bitter affliction
  * I will take you to Myself as a people	Killing of the newborns
  I will bring you into the Land

• Moshe is told to go to Pharaoh 6:10-13

• Families of Israel 6:14-25
  Levi was the last of the brothers to die at age 137; then the slavery began.

• Hashem’s instructions to Moshe and Aharon 6:26-7:9

• Moshe and Aharon confront Pharaoh according to Hashem’s command 7:10-13
  Aharon’s staff turned into a crocodile.
  The magicians were able to do the same.
  Aharon’s staff swallowed their’s.

  	Alienation	Slavery	Afflictions
  Water and land	1 Blood	2 Frogs	3 Lice
  Inhabitants of the land	4 Beasts	5 Death of animals	6 Boils
  Atmosphere	7 Hail	8 Locusts	9 Darkness

  ¹⁰ Death of the firstborn

• Blood 7:14-25

• Frogs 7:26-8:11

• Lice 8:12-15

• Beasts of the wilderness 8:16-28

• Death of the cattle 9:1-7

• Boils 9:8-12

• Hail 9:13-35

Contact:
Miriam Ben-Yaacov