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Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 27 This chapter is based on Exodus 19 to 24. Soon after the encampment at Sinai, Moses was called up into the mountain to meet with God. Alone he climbed the steep and rugged path, and drew near to the cloud that marked the place of Jehovah’s presence. Israel was now to…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 26 This chapter is based on Exodus 15:22-27; 16 to 18. From the Red Sea the hosts of Israel again set forth on their journey, under the guidance of the pillar of cloud. The scene around them was most dreary—bare, desolate-looking mountains, barren plains, and the sea stretching far away, its shores…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 25 This chapter is based on Exodus 12:34-51; 13-15. With their loins girt, with sandaled feet, and staff in hand, the people of Israel had stood, hushed, awed, yet expectant, awaiting the royal mandate that should bid them go forth. Before the morning broke, they were on their way. During the plagues,…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 24 This chapter is based on Exodus 11; 12:1-32. When the demand for Israel’s release had been first presented to the king of Egypt, the warning of the most terrible of the plagues had been given. Moses was directed to say to Pharaoh, “Thus saith the Lord, Israel is My son, even…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 23 This chapter is based on Exodus 5-10. Aaron, being instructed by angels, went forth to meet his brother, from whom he had been so long separated; and they met amid the desert solitudes, near Horeb. Here they communed together, and Moses told Aaron “all the words of the Lord who had…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 22 This chapter is based on Exodus 1 to Exodus 4. The people of Egypt, in order to supply themselves with food during the famine, had sold to the crown their cattle and lands, and had finally bound themselves to perpetual serfdom. Joseph wisely provided for their release; he permitted them to…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 21 This chapter is based on Genesis 41:54-56; 42 to 50. At the very opening of the fruitful years began the preparation for the approaching famine. Under the direction of Joseph, immense storehouses were erected in all the principal places throughout the land of Egypt, and ample arrangements were made for preserving…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 20 This chapter is based on Genesis 39 to 41. Meanwhile, Joseph with his captors was on the way to Egypt. As the caravan journeyed southward toward the borders of Canaan, the boy could discern in the distance the hills among which lay his father’s tents. Bitterly he wept at thought of…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 19 This chapter is based on Genesis 34; 35; 37. Crossing the Jordan, “Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan.” Genesis 33:18, R.V. Thus the patriarch’s prayer at Bethel, that God would bring him again in peace to his own land, had been…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 18 This chapter is based on Genesis 32 and 33. Though Jacob had left Padan-aram in obedience to the divine direction, it was not without many misgivings that he retraced the road which he had trodden as a fugitive twenty years before. His sin in the deception of his father was ever…