Exodus: chapter summaries
Rescue from Egypt, the Ten Commandments, the tabernacle.
- 1 Israel oppressed in Egypt
- 2 Moses is born and flees
- 3 The burning bush
- 4 Signs for Moses; Aaron to speak
- 5 Pharaoh makes the work harder
- 6 God renews his promise
- 7 The staff and the first plague
- 8 Frogs, gnats and flies
- 9 Livestock, boils and hail
- 10 Locusts and darkness
- 11 The last plague announced
- 12 The Passover and the exodus
- 13 The firstborn; the pillar of cloud
- 14 Crossing the Red Sea
- 15 The song of Moses; bitter water
- 16 Manna and quail
- 17 Water from the rock; Amalek
- 18 Jethro advises Moses
- 19 Israel arrives at Sinai
- 20 The Ten Commandments
- 21 Laws about servants and injuries
- 22 Laws about property and justice
- 23 Justice, Sabbaths and feasts
- 24 The covenant is sealed
- 25 The ark and the table
- 26 The tabernacle curtains
- 27 The altar and the courtyard
- 28 The priests’ garments
- 29 Consecrating the priests
- 30 The incense altar and the basin
- 31 Bezalel; the Sabbath sign
- 32 The golden calf
- 33 Moses asks to see God’s glory
- 34 New tablets of stone
- 35 Gifts for the tabernacle
- 36 Building the tabernacle
- 37 Making the ark and the furnishings
- 38 The altar and courtyard built
- 39 The priests’ garments made
- 40 The tabernacle is set up