Exodus 1-12

These are random thoughts I had while reading Exodus 1-12:

In Chaoter 1 Verse 22, the pharaoh states that all male-borns shall be thrown into the river and all females shall be saved. I found this interesting because at that time, almost every civilization was completely chauvenistic, caring only for the boys. I thought it was nice to see a change for once, where women were not considered unnecessary or not important and instead had more importance than men.

During Chapter 10 Verse 10, the pharaoh's sister names the boy she finds Moses, supposedly because she took him out of the water. What connection is there between the name Moses and being found in the river? Is it in the roots of Moses, or does Moses translate to water in some different language? It would be nice to known for sure why this name was chosen.

In Chapter 4 Verse 3 Moses's rod is turned into a snake. As I have mentioned before in several blogs, there seems to be some weird affection towards the snake, seeing that it is the most mentioned animal in the works we have studied so far. I still do not know where this originates or which story is the one that gave the snake such fame. Why do we relate snakes with evil? Where does this tendency towards vipers occur so often?

Chapter 12 Verse 16: God is talking about a congregation that shall take place during the seventh day. He then starts to talk on how bread has to be eaten and how it should be dipped in blood. I found this extremely interesting because I didn't know that this mass procedure was instructed so early, I always thought it started when Jesus had his last supper. By reading the Bible more and more and with our in-class discussions, I am having to change a lot of my previous ideals, because I have come to realize that well, most of them were wrong. In some way, it is really fun, but in others, it is really confusing because things that you took for granted that you already knew are different, which makes me have to re-think many other things. I just hope I continue to correct my mistakes.