Quick Look-Up Shemot - Exodus


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Sedra Shemot (Exodus 1:1-6:1) The Time of Slavery


1:5 Yoseph already in Mitsrayim
1:11 Pitom and Rameses; cf 4 rivers of Eden
1:15 Midwives Shiphrah and Pu'ah
1:16 Ritual killing of sons
2:1 Mosheh's parents
2:12 Mosheh murders a Mitsri
2:15 Mosheh in Midyan
2:17 Marriage
2:18 Re'u-El
2:21 Tsiporah
2:22 Gershom their son
3:1 New version? Father-in-law is now Yitro
3:2 Burning bush of Chorev (Horeb)
3:14 I AM THAT I AM
4:1 Acts of serpent magic
4:9 Water into blood
4:14 Aharon his brother and spokesman
4:20 Mosheh's sons
4:22 Mixing of Yisra-El and Ivrim as tribal name
4:24 Penu-El repeated?
4:25 Circumcision of Gershom. Why is Tsiporahthe mohel(et)?
5:1 Mosheh goes to see Pharaoh


Sedra Va Ayra
(Exodus 6:2-9:35) Mosheh in Exile

6:14 Heads of houses named
6:20 Am-Ram and Yocheved's family
7:7 Mosheh aged 80 and Aharon 83!
7:10 Aharon's rod becomes a serpent
7:19 1st plague: the water turns to blood

7:27 2nd plague: frogs
8:12 3rd plague: lice or gnats
8:17 4th plague: flies

9:3 5th plague: DEVER = pestilence
9:8 6th plague: boils
9:18 7th plague: hail


Sedra Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16) Passover

10:4 8th plague: locusts

10:21 9th plague: darkness
11:1 10th plague: death of the first-born
12:2 New Year established as Pesach (Passover) on 14th Aviv (Nisan)
12:43 Passover laws
13:9 First reference to the Shema


Sedra Be Shalach (Exodus 13:17-17:16) The Exodus

13:18 Flight into the wilderness
13:19 Bones of Yoseph taken with
13:20 Journey begins at Sukot, first camp at Etam, which may be the same place as Etam (different link)
13:21 Pillars of cloud and fire
14:16 Parting of the sea
15:1 Mosheh's song
15:20 Mir-Yam (Miriam) the Prophetess
15:22 Wilderness of Shur
15:23 Marah
15:27 Eylim
16:1 Wilderness of Sin
16:13 Quails
16:14 Manna
17:1 Rephidim
17:6 Chorev
17:7 Masah (aka Meriyvah)
17:8 Battle with Amalek at Rephidim
17:9 Yehoshu'a appointed
17:10 Chur
17:14 Amalek anathematised
17:15 Altar to YHVH Nisi


Sedra Yitro (Exodus 18:1-20:23) Preparations for the Wilderness

18:4 Mosheh's 2nd son Eli-Ezer
18:5 Mosheh's family arrive
18:14 Yitro's guidance
19:1 Month 3 since departure; into Sinai
19:18 YHVH appears in a volcanic eruption



Sedra Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1-24:18) The Ten Commandments

23:31 Boundaries of Yisra-El (Red Sea to Mediterranean, desert to river)
24:1 70 elders + Mosheh and Aharon go up the mountain
24:4 Altar and 12 pillars
24:10 YHVH linked to sapphire
24:13 Role of Yehoshu'a
24:14 Aharon and Chur 2nd in command
24:16 YHVH as volcano again



Sedra Terumah (Exodus 25:1-27:19) The Sacred

25:1 The offerings
25:8 The sanctuary and tabernacle
25:18 Keruvim
25:21 The Mercy Seat
25:31 Candlestick
26:1 Curtains
26:14 Covering for the tent
27:1 Altar
27:9 Courtyard
27:19 Vessels



Sedra Tetsaveh (Exodus 27:20-30:10) Priests, Rituals, Ceremonies

27:21 The veil
28:1 Appointment of priests
28:2 Priestly garments
28:30 Urim and Tumim


Sedra Ki Tisa
(Exodus 30:11-34:35) The Golden Calf

31:2 Betsal-El
31:6 Aholi-Av his assistant
32:15 Tablets of the Law
32:17 Yehoshu'a with Mosheh on the mountain
32:19 Tablets broken
32:20 Golden Calf destroyed
32:25 People punished
32:26 Leviyim go with Mosheh
32:28 Slaughter of the idolatrous (3,000 killed)
33:11 With Mosheh on the mount
34:13 Kena'ani groves, altars, ikons
34:14 YHVH's name is "jealous"
34:15 Reiteration of laws
34:17 No molten gods
34:18 Passover
34:20 Firstling of the lamb
34:21 Shabat (Sabbath)
34:23 Pilgrim festivals
34:28 Mosheh with YHVH 40 days and nights



Sedra Va Yakhel (Exodus 35:1-38:20) Rewriting the tablets

35:30 Betsal-El (2nd version?)
35:35 Aholi-Av


Sedra Pekudey
(Exodus 38:21-40:38) The Ark and the Tabernacle

40:2 Mishkan (Tabernacle) set up on 1st Aviv
40:3 Aron ha Edut (Ark of the Testimony) put inside
40:15 Aharonite priesthood





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