11For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 12Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood. 13And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. 14For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
God instructed Moses to go to Pharaoh and demand the release of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. He was to tell Pharaoh, "Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness."
The theme throughout the Hebrew Bible is that of the relationship between God and the Israelites, from Genesis through the last of the Hebrew prophets. Even passages that harshly scold the Israelites, or foretell punishments, are part of the theme of God's care for the Israelites, for the reason given in Amos 3:2.
Today, we think of God as omniscient - he should not need a sign to tell him who was an Israelite. But to the author of this passage, the anonymous author now known as the Yahwist, God was anthropomorphic - having human characteristics - and needed a sign so that he knew who was am Israelite. Thus in Exodus 12:23 the Hebrews were told to put blood on their lintels, and God would pass by those doors and smite the Egyptians in the other houses.
the Egyptians set the Israelites free because god killed every first born son of each family that did not have blood over the door frame.
The blood of a lamb.
Yes it was only God that saved the Israelites in the forty years of wandering.
God turned the water into blood as one of the ten plagues in Egypt to demonstrate his power and to persuade Pharaoh to release the Israelites from slavery. It was a sign of judgment against the Egyptians and their false gods.
The Israelites saw God's hand.
Moses was supposed to tell the Israelites that God had sent him to lead them out of slavery in Egypt and to the promised land. He was to convey God's message of deliverance and provide instructions for their journey and obedience to God's commands.
A distinction is made between killing for selfish reasons and killing for patriotic or theological reasons, although that distinction is merely implied, rather than stated in the bible. The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is really intended to mean "Thou shalt not kill on your own initiative, only kill the people I tell you to kill".Answer:This is where we get into the spirit of the command: Do not murder. The whole of the Ten Commandments focuses on relationships, between God and man. God gave the Israelites these laws because He wanted them to love both God and each other. God knew that if the unGodly nations are not removed, they would influence the Israelites and draw them to wickedness. So because God loved the Israelites, the wicked nations had to be destroyed.
The Israelites considered God as the Rock of their salvation (and still do). This is because "the Rock" (of strength) is one the names (or descriptions) of God, which God Himself stated (Deuteronomy 32:18 and elsewhere), and God also calls Himself the Savior of the Israelites (Isaiah 49:26 and elsewhere). Putting the two titles together, we get the Rock of the Israelites' Salvation.
His blood.