Leviticus 19:17-18
You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbour, lest you incur sin because of him.
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbour as yourself.
Leviticus 16:20-22
Then a man specially chosen for the task will drive the goat into the wilderness.
As the goat goes into the wilderness, it will carry all the people's sins upon itself into a desolate land.
Leviticus 5:7. Two turtledoves.
Rich or poor, all had their atoning sacrifice.
As Jesus said in Mark 12:44 - For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.
Leviticus 5:17-19
If anyone sins, doing any of the things that by the Lord's commandments ought not to be done, though he did not know it, then realizes his guilt, he shall bear his iniquity.
Exodus 40:36-38
So the cloud of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the Israelites during all their travels.
Illustration by Paul Hardy, 'The Pillar of Fire' from The Art Bible, 1896. My own colourisation.
Exodus 34:8-9 New Stone Tablets
“O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”
Exodus 32:1-4
Moses hasn't even got back, and Aaron helps Israel turn to idolatry.
Broken leaders and broken people.
Exodus 28:1-5
Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests - Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.
Our adorning under the gospel is not to be of gold and costly array, but the garments of salvation, the robe of righteousness.
Exodus 25:22
And I will meet with you there above the mercy seat,
between the two cherubim that are over the Ark of the Testimony;
I will speak with you about all that I command you regarding the Israelites.
Exodus 23:31
And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
'Cana - View of Sunset'. Colour lithograph of sun setting over landscape with Cana in the distance, Israel. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1842.
Exodus 22:22-24
Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless.
If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.
"Widowed and Fatherless", 1888, oil on canvas, by Thomas Benjamin Kennington.
Exodus 20:18-19
Moses is given the Ten Commandments.
When all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”
Exodus 19:10-11
Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes and be ready by the third day, because on that day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
'The Ten Commandments',
Illustration from a Bible card published by the Providence Lithograph Company, 1907
Exodus 18:20-21
Jethro's advice to Moses.
Illustration by Jan van Bronchorst, 'Jethro Advising Moses' - painting, Royal Palace of Amsterdam, 1659.
Exodus 16:17-18
Manna from Heaven.
Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770) - The Hebrews Gathering Manna in the Wilderness (c. 1740), oil on canvas, 92 x 67 cm. This amazing painting appears to be a study for a later work, The Gathering of the Manna (1738-42). The study buzzes with energy missing from the latter.
Exodus 15:24-25
It only took three days.
And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.
Painting by Nicolas Poussin, 1628 - Moses Sweetening the Bitter Waters of Marah.
Exodus 14:26-27
So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord threw the Egyptians into the midst of the sea.
Painting by one of my all-time favourite martime artists Ivan Ayvazovsky (1817–1900), 'Passage of the Jews through the Red Sea', 1881, oil on canvas. Ayvazovsky also painted the extraordinary painting of The Flood, 'Deluge', which is the banner picture in my profile.
Exodus 14:21-22
The Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night - and the waters were divided. And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
Exodus 12:37-39. Exodus from Egypt.
The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste... So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks.
Painting by David Roberts - The Departure of the Israelites out of the Land of Egypt, 1829. Oil on canvas. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, U.K.
Exodus 12:29
The Tenth Plague of Egypt.
At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.
Illustration from a painting by J.M.W. Turner - The Tenth Plague of Egypt, 1802, oil on canvas.
Turner was 27 years old when this was first exhibited.
Exodus 12:12-13
The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are.
And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
Illustration from a watercolour by James Tissot (1836-1902) - Signs on the Door, c.1896-1902. Detail.
Exodus 9:23-24
The Seventh Plague.
Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven,
and the Lord sent thunder and hail,
and fire ran down to the earth.
And the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Illustration by John Martin - The Seventh Plague, oil on canvas, 1823.
The design for the painting, in ink and watercolour on paper, is a similarly impressive piece of art.
