Israelites

Scripture references

• Exodus 1:1

  These are the names of the Israelites who went with Jacob to Egypt, each of them went with his family:

• Exodus 1:7

  But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific; they became so numerous and powerful that eventually the whole land was full of them.

• Exodus 1:9

  'Look,' he said to his people, 'the Israelites are now more numerous and stronger than we are.

• Exodus 1:12

  But the harder their lives were made, the more they increased and spread, until people came to fear the Israelites.

• Exodus 2:23

  During this long period the king of Egypt died. The Israelites, groaning in their slavery, cried out for help and from the depths of their slavery their cry came up to God.

• Exodus 2:25

  God saw the Israelites and took note.

• Exodus 3:9

  Yes indeed, the Israelites' cry for help has reached me, and I have also seen the cruel way in which the Egyptians are oppressing them.

• Exodus 3:10

  So now I am sending you to Pharaoh, for you to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.'

• Exodus 3:14

  God said to Moses, 'I am he who is.' And he said, 'This is what you are to say to the Israelites, "I am has sent me to you." '

• Exodus 4:22

  You will then say to Pharaoh, "This is what Yahweh says: Israel is my first-born son.

• Exodus 4:31

  The people were convinced, and they rejoiced that Yahweh had visited the Israelites and seen their misery, and they bowed to the ground in worship.

• Exodus 5:5

  And Pharaoh said, 'Now that the people have grown to such numbers in the country, what do you mean by interrupting their forced labour?'

• Exodus 5:12

  So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble for their straw.

• Exodus 5:19

  The Israelites' foremen saw they were in a difficult position on being told, 'You will not reduce your daily production of bricks.'

• Exodus 11:2

  Now instruct the people that every man is to ask his neighbour, and every woman hers, for silver and golden jewellery.

• Exodus 11:7

  But against the Israelites, whether man or beast, never a dog shall bark, so that you may know that Yahweh discriminates between Egypt and Israel.

• Exodus 11:10

  Moses and Aaron worked all these wonders in Pharaoh's presence, but Yahweh made Pharaoh stubborn, and he did not let the Israelites leave his country.

• Exodus 12:28

  The Israelites then went away and did as Yahweh had ordered Moses and Aaron.

• Exodus 12:37

  The Israelites left Rameses for Succoth, about six hundred thousand on the march-men, that is, not counting their families.

• Exodus 12:51

  and that same day Yahweh brought the Israelites out of Egypt in their armies.

• Exodus 13:2

  'Consecrate all the first-born to me, the first birth from every womb, among the Israelites. Whether man or beast, it is mine.'

• Exodus 13:18

  Instead, God led the people a roundabout way through the desert of the Sea of Reeds. The Israelites left Egypt fully armed.

• Exodus 13:20

  They set out from Succoth and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the desert.

• Exodus 14:2

  'Tell the Israelites to turn back and pitch camp in front of Pi-Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, facing Baal-Zephon. You must pitch your camp opposite this place, beside the sea,

• Exodus 14:22

  and the Israelites went on dry ground right through the sea, with walls of water to right and left of them.

• Exodus 14:31

  When Israel saw the mighty deed that Yahweh had performed against the Egyptians, the people revered Yahweh and put their faith in Yahweh and in Moses, his servant.

• Exodus 15:1

  It was then that Moses and the Israelites sang this song in Yahweh's honour: I shall sing to Yahweh, for he has covered himself in glory, horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.

• Exodus 15:22

  Moses led Israel away from the Sea of Reeds, and they entered the desert of Shur. They then travelled through the desert for three days without finding water.

• Exodus 15:27

  So they came to Elim where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees; and there they pitched camp beside the water.

• Exodus 16:1

  Setting out from Elim, the whole community of Israelites entered the desert of Sin, lying between Elim and Sinai -- on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left Egypt.

• Exodus 16:2

  And the whole community of Israelites began complaining about Moses and Aaron in the desert

• Exodus 16:13

  That evening, quails flew in and covered the camp, and next morning there was a layer of dew all round the camp.

• Exodus 16:31

  The House of Israel named it 'manna'. It was like coriander seed; it was white and its taste was like that of wafers made with honey.

• Exodus 16:35

  The Israelites ate manna for forty years, up to the time they reached inhabited country: they ate manna up to the time they reached the frontiers of Canaan.

• Exodus 17:1

  The whole community of Israelites left the desert of Sin, travelling by stages as Yahweh ordered. They pitched camp at Rephidim where there was no water for the people to drink.

• Exodus 17:3

  But tormented by thirst, the people complained to Moses. 'Why did you bring us out of Egypt,' they said, 'only to make us, our children and our livestock, die of thirst?'

• Exodus 17:7

  He gave the place the names Massah and Meribah because of the Israelites' contentiousness and because they put Yahweh to the test by saying, 'Is Yahweh with us, or not?'

• Exodus 18:13

  On the following day, Moses took his seat to administer justice for the people, and the people were standing round him from morning till evening.

• Exodus 19:1

  Three months to the day after leaving Egypt, the Israelites reached the desert of Sinai.

• Exodus 19:8

  and the people all replied with one accord, 'Whatever Yahweh has said, we will do.' Moses then reported to Yahweh what the people had said.

• Exodus 20:18

  Seeing the thunder pealing, the lightning flashing, the trumpet blasting and the mountain smoking, the people were all terrified and kept their distance.

• Exodus 20:19

  'Speak to us yourself,' they said to Moses, 'and we will obey; but do not let God speak to us, or we shall die.'

• Exodus 21:1

  'These are the laws you must give them:

• Exodus 22:20

  'You will not molest or oppress aliens, for you yourselves were once aliens in Egypt.

• Exodus 23:14

  'Three times a year you will hold a festival in my honour.

• Exodus 24:3

  Moses went and told the people all Yahweh's words and all the laws, and all the people answered with one voice, 'All the words Yahweh has spoken we will carry out!'

• Exodus 25:2

  'Tell the Israelites to set aside a contribution for me; you will accept a contribution from everyone whose heart prompts him to give it.

• Exodus 27:20

  'You will order the Israelites to bring you pure pounded olive oil for the light, and to keep a lamp burning all the time.

• Exodus 28:1

  'From among the Israelites, summon your brother Aaron and his sons to be priests in my service: Aaron and Aaron's sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

• Exodus 29:45

  And I shall live with the Israelites and be their God,

• Exodus 30:12

  'When you count the Israelites by census, each one of them must pay Yahweh a ransom for his life, to avoid any incidence of plague among them while you are holding the census.

• Exodus 31:16

  The Israelites will keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath for all their generations to come: this is an eternal covenant.

• Exodus 32:20

  He seized the calf they had made and burned it, grinding it into powder which he scattered on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.

• Exodus 33:6

  So, from Mount Horeb onwards, the Israelites stripped themselves of their ornaments.

• Exodus 34:30

  And when Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin on his face was so radiant that they were afraid to go near him.

• Exodus 35:29

  All those Israelites, men and women, whose heart prompted them to contribute to the entire work that Yahweh had ordered through Moses to be done, brought a contribution to Yahweh.

• Exodus 36:5

  and said to Moses, 'The people are bringing more than is needed for the work Yahweh has ordered to be done.'

• Exodus 38:26

  one beqa per head, half a shekel reckoned by the sanctuary shekel, for everyone of twenty years and over included in the census, for six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty persons.

• Exodus 39:42

  The Israelites had done all the work exactly as Yahweh had ordered Moses.

• Exodus 40:36

  At every stage of their journey, whenever the cloud rose from the Dwelling, the Israelites would resume their march.