Lesson 15 - Exodus 17 & 18

[Music] as we leave behind this establishment of a daily food supply for the Israelites something called Manu mana Mon who means what is it what is it I don't know but eat it we're gonna move on into Exodus now chapter 17 so open your Bibles to Exodus chapter 17 you have a complete Jewish Bible it's page 79 Exodus chapter 17 follow along with me the whole community of the people of Israel left the scene desert traveling in stages as Anna and I had ordered and camped at refa deem but there was no water for the people to drink the people quarreled with Moshe a demanding give us water to drink but Moshe replied why pick a fight with me why are you testing out at night however the people were thirsty for water there and grumbled against Moses for what did you bring us up from Egypt to kill us our children our livestock with thirst and Moses cried out to a Danite what am I to do with these people they're ready to stone me and that did I answered Moses go on ahead of the people and bring with you the leaders of Israel take your staff in your hand the one you use to strike the river and go I will stand in front of you there on the rock in Horeb you are to strike the rock and water will come out of it so the people people can drink and Moses did this in the sight of the leaders of Israel the placement was named masa and Mareva because of the quarreling of the people of Israel and because they tested that and I by asking is that and I with us or not then a Malak came and fought with it with israel and redeem and moshe said to Joshua choose men for us go out and fight with emilich and tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with God's staff in my hand Joshua did as most told him and fought with amalek then Moshe our own and who went up to the top of the hill and when Moshe raised his hand Israel prevail but when he let it down Amalek prevailed however Moshe's hands grew heavy so they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it ah her own and horror held up his hands the one on the one side the other on the other so that his hands stayed steady until sunset then Yahshua defeated Amalek putting their people to the sword I don't I said to Moses write this in a book to be remembered and tell it to Joshua I will completely blot out any memory of Amalek from under heaven Moses built an altar kata called it OTO 9ec and said because their hand was against the throne of yah odd and I will fight a Malak generation after generation as the 17th chapter of Exodus opens we have the Israelites leaving the scene desert and moving on towards Mount Sinai also known as Mount known as Mount Horeb also known as the mountain of God now one wonders if they had understood the significance of the occurrences and of the last several weeks or had any inkling that God was in the process of molding and shaping them is it possible that the miracles of the plagues against Egypt the Hebrews released from bondage a parting of the Red Sea and the turning of the bitter waters of Marah and to sweet drinkable water could be so easily dismissed and forgotten in just a few days their faith going up and down like an elevator I mean how could it be that the visible cloud that led the way both day and night God's actual and real presence with them wasn't enough to assure is about all times the God was in control but such was the case with this weak quarrelsome insecure people let's hope it's not the case with us as well once again they need water they're human they were in a barren desert needing waters of necessity of life and it's a pretty reasonable concern their journey necessarily was one of moving from Oasis to Oasis now food was no longer an issue but water was always an issue two nomadic tent dwellers there is no indication that the Israelites even thought to approach God about their need for water rather their first thought was to gripe they worried they doubted they feared and they blamed they blamed Moses and they blamed Yahweh God this situation was a little different than before when they needed water because where Moses led them this time there was not even a hint of water which in itself is pretty strange Moses was an experienced desert dweller having lived in Midian and and I suggest he had lived only a few miles away from where the people of Israel stood thirsty at this very moment he would only have taken them to a place where normally there would have been water so probably we're dealing with some kind of an unusual drought condition on the Arabian Peninsula and the water source that Moses expected to be present near a place called RIF team was dried up naturally this was indeed a potential disaster yet one would reasonably assume that Israel would have remembered back to only a couple of weeks earlier at the bitter springs of Marah that God had miraculously made this undrinkable water drinkable for them apparently that out they don't really forgot about God's interest in sustaining their life's and their need for water but they never grasped the significance and lesson contained within his solution let's revisit that mara incident for just a moment back in Chapter 15 of Exodus we saw that Israel was grumbling and in need of water and Moses brings them to a spring to an oasis that in its natural state had water but it had a very bitter taste to it but when some special unnamed wood obviously something that was available locally is immersed into that bitter water at God's command the waters cleaned of its bad taste and becomes useful to save their lives I mean this is such a beautiful picture of what Messiah was going to do for us fourteen hundred years into the future here we are mankind our corrupt natural state being full of bitterness bitterness in our Western Way of thinking generally is an emotion or it's an attitude it's a mental state it means that we're hanging on to our hurts and to our offenses we've developed a sense that life is unfair to us and as a result we view the world around us cynically I mean we reject joy but that typically is not what the Bible means by bitterness rather scripturally bitterness is the opposite of sweet both in a real and in a poetic sense bitter means some unbearable pain usually at the hands of another suffered with no hope of escape it's it's oppression the root word for bitter Mara is even associated with poison the Jew of Nazi Germany were bitter meaning they were in a hopeless state of oppression beyond their own control that's what the Bible means by bitterness now bitter as a negative state of existence is often used to describe the Israelite condition in Egypt and bitters also the usual condition of all mankind we're unable to save ourselves or unable to change ourselves we're unable to shuck off our bitter existence even if we don't recognize it as bitterness but now comes Christ who has hung on to a piece of wood his precious blood spilled all over it and what miraculous qualities that would that cross paths for when that divine wood the cross is immersed into our lives and our bitterness our oppression and all of that is taken away from us often when something is immersed into a liquid the object takes on a different character and point of fact the Greek word baptismal from which we get our English word baptized means to immerse and the word baptise moe is a word that was borrowed from the cloth dyeing trade of the biblical era that is a natural cloth was baptismal into a vat of dye and then the cloth would take on the characteristics of that which it was immersed into and so it is with us with those who are crucified with Yeshua his wooden cross immersed into our bitter lives transforms our lives and makes them sweet and free from the oppression of the power of sin this is the picture that is intended for us at the spring of Marah the wilderness well returning to chapter 17 and Israel's newest need for water Moses reminded them that while they might think their grumbling is against him it's really against God and Moses wants to know why would you test God what's wrong with you people now remember our Hebrew lesson about this word test or or prove or tempt we see in some versions the Hebrew word used here is the same as we saw earlier Naha and it carries with it the sense of being hauled into a courtroom and being put before a judge it brings to mind a trial proceeding so what Moses accuses the people of doing is literally putting God on it on trial they were putting themselves in the position of judging God yet once again God's merciful rather than rebuke Moses or the people for their lack of faith he simply provides for them God tells Moses to take the people's representatives called the elders and go to the rock or Mount Horeb they're using the same staff that Moses used to part the Red Sea to smite the water in Egypt to turn it to blood Moses was to strike that rock and water would just pour from it enough for everybody it's interesting that this is the second time the second time that we have found water we're out found Moses being ordered to strike something with this staff and it has to do with water always has to do with water the first time was when he struck the Nile River remember turning it to bloody red making it undrinkable now he's going to strike a rock the rock will produce drinkable water notice how the staff of Moses which is really but God's staff of authority placed into Moses his hands was used in one case at the Nile for wrath upon people who were not his people the Egyptians but in our current case that same staff would be used to provide mercy protection for his own people it's important that we see this difficult attribute of God it is that from the same source the Lord comes blindness and revelation comes destruction and salvation comes darkness and light comes Shalom and comes despair same source goodness to those who submit to his lordship but calamity to those who refuse his lordship see we commit a terrible idolatry hello I know we don't never think of it that way we are actually committing idolatry when we discard those characteristics of God that bother us and we hang on all these are the ones that pleases because indeed to do so makes us guilty of forming our own God image from our own minds that is the definition of idolatry I'd be remiss if I didn't point out what could not possibly have been understood by Moses and the elders this event of striking the rock is yet another shadow of a future event Christ is often called the rock and he was smitten struck that living water would pour forth from him for all of God's people and let's also remember that when he Eshoo who was himself living water was stabbed with that Roman spear all who were watching saw physical water pour from that wound this event at Horeb and the crucifixion at Calvary were completely connected on both a physical and spiritual level now I want to point out one other interesting connection that's not readily seen in English but it is in the original Hebrew Moses was to use his staff his rod in God's name to strike that rock at Horeb just like he struck the Nile a year earlier remember back in earlier chapters of Exodus when we discovered that the word used to describe the nine blows that God visited upon Egypt that we usually call plagues was in Hebrew Nega don't mix up a couple of similar sounding Hebrew words like Negin aha Natha means to go to a trial Nega means to strike to hit to deliver a blow this word Nega meaning to hit would not be used to describe something benign like like striking a nail with a hammer it carries with it the sense of attacking attacking with a purpose to harm even to kill looking back we can understand why Nega would have been used to appropriately describe these harmful and eventually deadly strokes upon Egypt that began with Moses striking the Nile River so the use of the word when describing hitting the rock so that water would come forth from it seems out of place I mean what would be the point of using a word like that has with it an aura of malice and violence in this setting where a rock is being struck so water will pour forth rabbis have used for centuries on just why that word Nega which portrays striking with with a sense of harm why would that be used with Moses bringing forth water for his people to drink if it weren't for the connection with what would eventually happen to the true rock our rock Yeshua when he was struck with malice and with violence the use of that Hebrew word here at Mount Horeb would then be out of place but now we see the connection we're told in verse 7 that the place where the Israelites grumbled about needing water was named mossad merrova usually translated as testing and quarreling I think a better translation of Masad than testing would be tempting and by the way notice that this is not the same word as used earlier when Moses accused the people putting God on trial that word was not ha while the name of the place is masa and M why is the word tempting them so appropriate here because these people who have followed this cloud cloud of glory for two months they now slap God in the face by asking at the end of verse 7 well is God with us or not suddenly in verse 8 scene changes and the people become engaged in their first battle with a hostile neighbor now this of course was the very thing that God had arranged for Israel to avoid in their first days of their Exodus by insisting that they take the desert wilderness route rather than taking the direct route to Canaan that uses a major highway between Egypt and Canaan called the way of the Philistines for whatever reason this battle with Amalek was a battle God wanted Israel to fight it is a group of people called Amalek that attacked Israel we're gonna find out later in Deuteronomy 25 that Amalek actually attacked the rear of this long column of Israel which consisted primarily of the stragglers the feeble the weak the sickly and this is what made Amalek all the more horrendous because I'm Milwaukee and I'm alike in no way threatened rather Israel in no way threatened Amalek but it's not surprising at all that it would it be amalek as the first to make an attack upon israel because the amela kites were the descendants of Esau so while Amalek was related to Israel because of the split between the twin brothers Jacob and Esau they were also enemies remember how Jacob connived to get that firstborn blessing and all the wealth and power went with it away from his twin brother Esau and then later Jacob become became called Israel and he produced the 12 tribes of Israel and verse 9 Moses instructs Joshua who would eventually become the leader of Israel after Moses death to select some men who would go fight amalek and then lead them in battle as for Moses he would stand on the hill above the battlefield probably with his staff and hand and along with him up on the hill would go his brother Aaron and a man named hor now we can understand why Aaron Moses's prophet would accompany him but who is this poor fellow well we find him mentioned again in Exodus 24 14 he seems to be Aaron's assistant although in the genealogies he does not appear to be a blood relative of Aaron's Talmudic tradition is that was Miriam's husband of course Miriam was Moses and Aaron sister well the battle begins Josh was down in the valley leading his men Moses Erin and her up on the hilltop observing Moses raising up his hands it's usually presumed that he was holding a staff in his hand that's not what the scriptures say the presumption that he held his staff in his hand comes from the name of the victory altar that was used that was built to commemorate this battle because the altars name Jehovah Nissi implies that a banner or an insignia of some color or some other kind of device that symbolized Israel was used by Moses and verse 11 says that a very strange thing occurred as long as held Moses held his staff in the air towards the heavens the battle tilted in Israel's favor but as soon as he put his arm holding the staff down for arrest the battle swung towards Amalek so Aaron in her head Moses sit on a stone then one man on each side they would prop up Moses his arm so that the staff would not have been have to be Lord as Moses his arms grew tired not even for a momentary rest well this battle went on and on battles net they did until sunset so Joshua was men defeated ammolite now here's a couple of items of interest first of all let's talk a little about Joshua Joshua was of the tribe of Ephraim hopefully you will recall the last three chapters of Genesis where the importance of the tribe of Ephraim was discussed in fact understand here me on this because I know we have plenty of people here that like prophecy in the entire information for you to understand the end times and even the book of Revelation you really need to study Ephram about Ephraim the tribe of Ephraim this is a key that unlocks the door to many biblical mysteries now technically at the time of this battle with Amalek Joshua Joshua wasn't yet called Joshua his name was or in English Hosea this is not the same Hosea by the way as the Prophet Hosea that has his own Bible book named after him Hosea means help or salvation now sometime following this battle Hosea's name was changed and we've seen this name changing happen before haven't we Abraham started out as just Abram Avram meaning father of many later God said you will now be Avraham meaning exalted father later on yet we saw Jacob Yaakov's name change to Israel now Hoshi is going to have his name changed to Joshua now these two names Joshua and Hosea are related but we really can't see it until they're presented in their original Hebrew Joshua is in Hebrew Yehoshua Yehoshua which means yah saves or better God saves or better yet and most accurately Jehovah saves and most accurately in Hebrew Hosea is really pronounced whole schewe or o Shia so after the battle with amalek Joshua Hosea has the word yah added as a prefix to his name so now becomes yahushua yah Hacha wah so it's easy to see after the strange battle where Moses has to hold his staff up high in order for to God in order for Israel to be damned like that the leader and victor of this momentous battle would have his name changed to a name that reflected what happened that day when God saved Israel from Amalek now one more thing we'll move on Yehoshua Hebrew is simply longhand for a name we've already all become familiar with Yeshua Jesus Jesus Christ yep and our modern vocabulary Joshua is the name Christ was born with and in Hebrew Joshua's Yeshua our Lord had the same name that this man did who won the battle against Amalek here again we have an Old Testament connection to the new Joshua friend of Moses physically saves Israel through God's power Joshua Yeshua Jesus Christ spiritually saves Israel and all would who who would be joined to Israel through God's power in both cases this was an act of God doing the saving and I want to assure you these connections are real they're not contrived and they're there for us to see these connections unfortunately often times the connection is invisible until it's presented in its original Hebrew now at the end of chapter 17 we get this bone-chilling instruction from God he's going to completely blot out the memory of the people of Amalek we're told from under heaven he's gonna fight I'm alike generation after generation why why is this this ultimate condemnation from God upon the people of Amalek well i Malec was not only real and tangible being exactly as they're reported doing is exactly as reported as well but they're also a type Amalek was Gentiles and so they represent those Gentiles who come against Israel who Israel Amalek were the first people to attack Israel after the redemption from Egypt Israel's redeemed and I'm Alex the first people to attack them as a redeemed people Amalek represents that force which opposes God's people and God's plan that has to be worked out through his people this is not the last time we're going to hear about amalek in the Bible Saul first king of Israel will be commanded by God to do what destroy amalek as a punishment for their attempt to stop the advance of Israel during Moses days as the leader of Israel and by the way Saul never accomplished that several centuries later the evil Haman thank you very much the evil Haman of Esther Fame right all right Ave Esther fame is said to have been a descendant of Hamelin many Arabs today many are from the tribe of Amalek which is the tribe of Esau the Jordanians for instance are a people whose ancestors are a mix of Ishmael and Esau Moses were told then built an altar now this was a typical action of people in that day in reaction to a very important event this altar was a monument it was a marker to commemorate the Battle of Israel and God against Amalek the altar was named Jehovah Nissi Jehovah God's name is my banner now as we in this chapter I'm going to mention something briefly about Moses staff and a being referred to as a banner there is a critical God principle being set up here and it's this not at all allegory when we turn over our staff and we all have one when we loosen our grip for our own authority and we turn it over to God it becomes God's staff in his hands understand that in ancient times of staff sometimes referred to as a rod other times as a scepter particularly if it involves a king is a symbol it's a representation of authority Moses his staff and human terms was a symbol of Moses Authority when he raised his staff to heaven Bible causes that raising a banner it is symbolic of Moses turning his authority over to God whereby God does something miraculous the staff of Moses becomes the staff of God this is the secret to the believers life this is the secret to it and as long as we cling to our own personal Authority and own lordship over our lives then we're simply not useable by God where does not and there is no power in our own Authority the strongest most powerful most brilliant most wealthy of us ultimately have only our own personal natural human abilities to count on and they can be considerable but turn that authority over to God and he will fit it with his power Moses staff under Moses Authority was just a piece of dead wood even though it seemed to him like an indispensable tool of his trade as a shepherd it was a necessary symbol of it as a over israel but at that same staff placed under God's Authority it could turn the Nile River to blood it could part the Red Sea it could defeat an enemy combatant this principle is often expressed in MA in the modern evangelical Christian community as yielding or surrendering to God we see that principle being developed right here in Exodus in the Torah with Moses let's move on to Exodus chapter 18 Exodus chapter 18 turn your Bibles to Exodus 18 have a complete Jewish Bible turn the page page 80 now eat row Jethro the priest of Midian Mochis father-in-law heard all about I heard about all that had God had done for Moses and for Israel as people how ad and I had brought Israel out of Egypt and after Moses had sent away his wife Zipporah and her two sons each row amongst his father-in-law had taken them back the name of the one son was Gershom for Moses had said I have been a foreigner in the foreign land the name of the other was Eliezer because the god of my father helped me by rescuing me from pharaoh's sword Jethro Moses father-in-law brought Moses son and his wife to him in the desert where he was encamped at the mountain of God and he sent word to Moses I your father-in-law Yitro I'm coming to you with your wife and your and her two sons Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and he prostrated himself and he kissed him and then after inquiring of each other's welfare they entered the tent Moshe told his father-in-law all that ad and I had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel's sake all the hardships they had suffered while traveling and how ad and I had rest you'd them Jethro rejoiced over all the good that and I had done for Israel by rescuing them from the Egyptians and Jethro said Pleasant blessed be Auto and I who has rescued you from the Egyptians and from Pharaoh who has rescued the people from the harsh hand of the Egyptians now I know that Adonai is greater than all other gods because he rescued those who were treated so arrogantly itro Moshe his father-in-law brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God and Aaron came with all the leaders of Israel to share the meal before God with Moshe A's father-in-law now the following day Moshe sat to settle disputes for the people while the people stood around Moshe a from morning till evening and when Moses his father-in-law saw that he was doing to the people he said what is this that you were doing to the people why do you sit there alone of all the people standing around you from morning until evening Moses answered his father-in-law it's because the people come to me seeking God's guidance and whenever they have a dispute it comes to me I judge between one person and another I explained to them God's laws and his teachings and Moses father-in-law said to him but what you're doing isn't good you will certainly wear yourself out and not only yourself but these people here with you as well it's too much for you you can't do it alone by yourself so listen now to what I have to say I'll give you some advice and God will be with you you should represent the people before God and you should bring their cases to God you should also teach them the laws and the teachings and show them how to live their lives and what work they should do but you should choose from among all the people competent men or god-fearing honest incorruptible to be their leaders in charge of thousands hundreds 50s and tens now normally they will settle the people's disputes they should bring you the difficult cases but ordinary matters they should decide themselves and this way they will make it easier for you and share the load with you and if you do this and God is directing you to do it you will be able to endure and all these people too will arrive at their destination peacefully Moshe paid attention to his father-in-law's counsel and he did everything he said and mostly chose competent men from all Israel he made them heads over the people in charge of thousands hundreds 50s and tens and as a general rule they settled the people's disputes the difficult cases they brought to Moshe but every simple matter they decided themselves then Moshe led his father-in-law leave and he went off to his own country it was long ago recognized by ancient Hebrew sages that this chapter is out of his chronological sequence the mention of God's laws of an altar of Moses teaching God's rules to the people then judging them according to those rules could only have occurred after the law was given to Moses on Mount Sinai so is that as chapter 18 opens Moses his father-in-law makes a reappearance itro Jethro the priest of Midian he's heard about all that has happened concerning Israel and he comes to greet Moses and as we've discussed news travels fast in those days people in many nations knew what was going on in other regions and you can bet that there were many regions and nations that were holding their collective breath wondering just where this three million strong horde was gonna land now this is another of the many chapters of Exodus that for reasons unknown to me but I have my suspicions the Bible Translators consistently choose to use the word God or ward whenever the Hebrew word Jehovah appeared so when we look at the original language texts we see that II throw Jethro Moses father-in-law knew the god of the Hebrews name and we can safely assume that the same people and nations who knew of the happenings in Egypt concerning Israel also in time knew the name of Israel's God you Dave Ave the Hebrew characters y'avait in that era knowing a God's name was considered vitally important because the superstition was that if you knew the name of the God who lorded over some area of responsibility like the weather or fertility or prosperity or battle then by invoking that particular God's name that God had to do what you requested one of the gyros purposes for coming to meet Moses was to bring Moses wife sapore this was his daughter this was Ito's Dadar plus her two sons - Moses says in verse two that she'd been sent home that pretty well fits with the tradition concerning sapore that she was a real firebrand she created such a problem for Moses that when Moses was on his way from Midian to Egypt to confront Pharaoh he sent her home anyone remember what the name sapore means it's a Bedouin name it means bird of which he was anything but and by the way that names Solon used today it is generally thought that the rather interesting episode word sapore publicly confronts Moses about his that not having yet circumcised his sons and God being angry with Moses deployed and threatened his life is what Moe is what led this incident of Moses sending his wife support and her son's home to Jethro her father well verse five says Moses was at the mountain of when itro showed up now this is kind of interesting because it is another proof that this story is a little bit out of order an exodus because we don't even hear of the exodus refugees moving in and camping at the foot of mount sinai and told the next chapter I had warned you last week the tour is not always in perfect chronological order this is one of those instances but this is also well in line with the God instructed incident of the striking of the rock and order the water might be obtained because it has said that this rock was in the mountain range of Horeb which is the mountain range where Mount Sinai the mountain of God is located and I think it also reveals that Jethro knew exactly where this mountain of God was he knew this place why would he know it because a it was very near to his own homeland of Midian and because there apparently had been some sort of correspondence between Moses and yet Roe as it says in verse 6 and because very likely Moses had taken him there some years earlier at the least he made it very clear to Jethro where this place was I don't want to run it into the ground but it is very likely that the mountain of God was no more than a very few days journey from Utah's home so it places Mount Sinai right where the Apostle Paul says it is in Arabia or better on the Arabian Peninsula let's remember that the mountain of God where Moses was leading the Israelite people is the same place where Moses Moses had encountered God in the burning bush at the time of the burning bush Moses was living with his father-in-law where the land of Midian and that's where the bush was was in Midian we read that Moses ran out to meet his fall in law and fill prostrate before him this is just a traditional sign of respect now it would sure be fun to have been able I think to overhear the conversation perhaps to hear Moses talking to the to his young boys and listening to their stories about what had been happening in their lives during his absence I'd sure like to know which support showed up to the one that mellow it out a little bit remorseful maybe kind of missing her husband or the one that gave him heck for going in the first place and then from being gone too long and of course to hear Moses recounting these miracles miracle life - breathtaking miracle that yeah how they had performed to save Israel but to reduce Egypt to devastation then undoubtedly relating to Jethro the unending problems of dealing with this enormous population of never satisfied ungrateful people who never missed an opportunity to tell Moses just what he was doing wrong in verses 9 through 12 many scholars think we have a recounting of a Gentile conversion to the religion of the Hebrews yes itro was a Gentile he was not an Israelite and although he is called a priest he was not a priest of Jehovah but of some other religion some other system of gods we just don't have to assume that because the only priestly tribe of Israel was a livable it was the Israel I went was the Levites with Levite Aaron as the high priest see there's no indication anywhere the yet rope could have possibly been a member of Israel let alone a Levite so in order to offer a sacrifice on Israel Daltrey he would have had to confess loyalty to Israel and to the God of Israel we get a very important glimpse into the minds of the Pete of that era because Yitro Jethro speaks of the stories he's heard concerning the power of this Hebrew God and it got confirmed all these stories got confirmed by Moses and in verse 11 ito makes the confession that this Jehovah must be greater than all other gods he follows that up with making a sacrifice to Jehovah in the presence of Moses and Aaron all the elders of Israel and then it's all finished up with a meal this was the standard way of making a covenant they buried and in Hebrew back in Genesis we discussed length how covenants were made and we see here that what yet Roe did was to make a covenant before God probably declaring his allegiance to yo ho vey therefore to Israel so did he there for him this is our question renounce his other gods that he'd been worshipping gods that he was a priest for did he now adhere to a monotheistic ideal their only being one God probably not he simply acknowledged the Yehovah was the god of the Hebrews and that he was the L the chief God which would have set just fine with Israel because in general that's how they viewed Jehovah as well just the greatest God among all the many gods now I want to point out something else for you that's gonna become more apparent after we finish Exodus and you'll find it in the Book of Leviticus verse 12 almost universally and English translation says that Jethro brought a burnt offering and sacrifices for God what it says in the original language is that ye throw brought and Ola and as Ava for yo vey the O law is a very specific kind sacrifice as is the Ziva and of course we see the Jethro didn't bring those two exclusively Hebrew sacrifices each with their own special meaning to any old God in general which sacrifices by the way were only ordained in the law given to Mount Sinai these sacrifices or of course just as it says in Hebrew intended for the god named Jehovah we're going to stop here and pick up the remainder of chapter 18 next time [Music] [Music] you see [Music] you

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