Exod.1-Exod.18

From Joseph’s rise in Pharaoh’s court to Moses’ birth and the Exodus, Israel lived in Egypt for 430 years (Exod 12:40), growing from seventy…

Israel's escape from slavery in Egypt under Moses, the giving of the Law at Sinai, and the building of the tabernacle. The defining event of…

The poor person's grain — cheaper and coarser than wheat, it fed landless workers and widows across the Bible world.

A small bushy herb whose bundled stalks were used as a ritual sprinkler — from Passover doorposts to the foot of the cross.

The horse in the Bible is almost always a war animal — symbol of military power and human pride, never trusted by the prophets.