Exodus 6:14–27
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to a portion of Exodus that many modern readers, trained in the art of the fast-paced narrative, are tempted to skim. It appears to be a sudden interruption, a genealogical speed bump on the highway of redemption. God has just recommissioned Moses, promising deliverance with a mighty hand. Pharaoh's heart is about to be hardened, the plagues are on the horizon, and right when the action is about to start, the inspired narrator hits the pause button and gives us a list of names. But in the economy of God, there are no throwaway lines, no inspired marginalia. When the Holy Spirit includes a genealogy, He is not simply filling space. He is showing us that salvation is not an abstract, floaty idea. It happens to real people, with real fathers and real sons, in real time.