Moses Is Used By God - NIV

After Joseph Died, the Children of Israel Continued to Live in Egypt. They Had Many Children and Eventually, a New Pharaoh Come to Power Who Did Not Know or Appreciate What Joseph Had Done for Egypt.

1. What Did the Pharaoh Try to Have Done to All the Baby Boys Born to the Hebrew Women?

Exodus 1:8-10 Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt. [9] "Look," he said to his people, "the __________________ have become much too numerous for us. [10] Come, we must deal ______________ with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our ____________, fight against us and leave the ____________."

Exodus 1:13-16 And worked them ruthlessly. [14] They made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their hard labor the Egyptians used them ruthlessly. [15] The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew ______________, whose names were ______________ and Puah, [16] "When you help the Hebrew women in __________________ and ____________ them on the ______________ stool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live."

Exodus 1:17-19 The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. [18] Then the king of Egypt ______________ the midwives and asked them, "Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?" [19] The midwives answered ____________, "Hebrew women are not like ______________ women; they are ______________ and give birth before the midwives arrive."

Exodus 1:20-22 So God was kind to the midwives and the people ________________ and became even more ______________. [21] And because the midwives feared God, he gave them ______________ of their own. [22] Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: "Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live."

1) Why did the King of Egypt (the Pharaoh) want to kill the Hebrew boy babies? ___________________________________________________

2) Did the midwives throw the Hebrew babies into the Nile River? ___________________

3) The Bible says that God blessed the midwives for not throwing the baby boys into the river. True or False .

2. Moses was Born at a Time When the Pharaoh of Egypt Wanted All Hebrew Baby Boys Killed.

Exodus 2:1-5 Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, [2] and she became ______________ and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. [3] But when she could hide him no longer, she got a ____________ basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. [4] His sister stood at a ______________ to see what would happen to him. [5] Then ________________ ______________ went down to the Nile to bathe, and her __________________ were ____________ along the river bank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it.

Exodus 2:6-10 She opened it and saw the baby. He was __________, and she felt sorry for him. "This is one of the Hebrew babies," she said. [7] Then his __________ asked Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?" [8] "Yes, go," she answered. And the girl went and got the __________ __________. [9] Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you." So the woman took the baby and __________ him. [10] When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he __________ her son. She named him Moses, __________, "I drew him out of the water."

Exodus 2:11-15 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and ____________ them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. [12] ______________ this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. [13] The next day he went out and saw two ____________ ______________. He asked the one in the wrong, "Why are you ____________ your fellow Hebrew?" [14] The man said, "Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you ______________ of ____________ me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid and ____________, "What I did must have become known." [15] When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.

Exodus 2:16-21 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the ____________ to water their father's flock. [17] Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock. [18] When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, "Why have you returned so early today?" [19] They answered, "An ______________ ____________ us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock." [20] "And where is he?" he asked his daughters. "Why did you leave him? Invite him to have ________________ to eat." [21] Moses __________ to stay with the man, who gave his daughter ______________ to Moses in ______________.

1) When Moses grew too big to be hidden from the Egyptians, where did his mother put him? ___________________________________________________

2) Who found Moses at the river? __________________________________

3) Who raised Moses? ________________________

4) Moses became the son of Pharaoh's daughter. True or False

5) When Moses was a man he thought it was time to deliver Israel from Egypt. True or False

6) Why did Moses have to flee from Egypt? ______________________________

3. God Called Moses to Deliver Israel.

Exodus 3:1-3 Now Moses was ____________ the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the ______________ of God. [2] There the angel of the LORD ______________ to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. [3] So Moses ____________, "I will go over and see this ____________ sight--why the bush does not burn up."

Exodus 3:4-7 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!" And Moses said, "Here I am." [5] "Do not come any closer," God said. "Take off your ____________, for the place where you are ______________ is holy ground." [6] Then he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. [7] The LORD said, "I have indeed seen the misery of my __________ in Egypt. I have heard them __________ out because of their slave ____________, and I am ________________ about their ________________.

Exodus 3:8-10 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey--the home of the __________________, ______________, Amorites, __________________, Hivites and ________________. [9] And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are __________________ them. [10] So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt."

Exodus 3:11-12 But Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to ____________ and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?" [12] And God said, "I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have ____________ the people out of Egypt, you will ____________ God on this ______________."

1) What kind of work was Moses doing for his father-in-law? ______________________________

2) What unusual thing got Moses' attention while he was in the wilderness? _________________________________________

3) What did God tell Moses He wanted him to do? _____________________________

4. Moses Needed Convincing and God Is Ready to Help Him.

Exodus 3:13-15 Moses said to God, "____________ I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' Then what _________ I tell them?" [14] God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.' " [15] God _______ said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites, 'The _______, the God of your fathers--the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob--has sent me to you.' This is my name ____________, the name by _________ I am to be __________________ from generation to generation.

Exodus 3:18-20 "The elders of Israel will listen to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, 'The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Let us take a three-day ____________ into the desert to offer __________________ to the LORD our God.' [19] But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him. [20] So I will ____________ out my hand and strike the ________________ with all the ____________ that I will ____________ among them. After that, he will let you go.

Exodus 4:1-5 Moses answered, "What if they do not believe me or __________ to me and say, 'The LORD did not __________ to you'?" [2] Then the LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?" "A staff," he ____________. [3] The LORD said, "Throw it on the ground." Moses threw it on the ground and it __________ a snake, and he ran from it. [4] Then the LORD said to him, "Reach out your hand and take it by the tail." So Moses ____________ out and took hold of the snake and it __________ back into a staff in his hand. [5] "This," said the LORD, "is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers--the God of Abraham, the God of _________ and the God of Jacob--has __________ed to you."

Exodus 4:6-9 Then the LORD said, "Put your hand __________ your cloak." So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was ____________, like snow. [7] "Now put it back into your cloak," he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh. [8] Then the LORD said, "If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first __________________ sign, they may believe the __________. [9] But if they do not believe these two signs or __________ to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will __________ _________ on the ground."

1) What did God say His name was? ________________________

2) God said that He was the God of _________________, and _____________, and _________________.

3) God told Moses to throw his _______________ on the ground. What happened to it? _____________________________

4) How did Moses get his staff back? ____________________________

5) God told Moses to put his _____________ into his bosom. What happened? _______________________

6) How did Moses get a healthy hand again? _________________________

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