1. Exodus 30:12-16  If you are 20 years old or above, you get “numbered” and must give as an offering a half shekel to make a covering (atonement) for your soul. What picture does equal money (the rich and the poor pay the same amount) teach us about the price Yeshua paid for the sins of the world?

2. Treating something of relative importance as though it were of ultimate significance is idolatry. Explain what the people were thinking when they created a god of gold and named it Yahweh after seeing all the miracles in the deliverance and then being instructed not to do this exact thing?

3. In Exodus 32:1-25, Aaron has a senior moment (he was around 84) and decides to fashion [v4] a molten calf of gold and then build an alter [v5] for it. Then he states that tomorrow will be a feast to Yahweh. But in verse 24, he states that (1) the people said unto me “make us gods” (2) I said “give me any gold that you have” (3) so I collected it and tossed it into the fire and out came this calf. (4) then Aaron told everyone to get naked and they did. What do we make of Aarons culpability in this matter?

4. "Blot me out of Your Book" (Exodus 32:32). Did Moses feel that by giving his life (being removed from the book) he could make atonement [v30] for the sins of the people? Do we see a similar event in Romans 9:3 with Paul where he says “For I was at the point of wishing that I might be [Greek “anathema”] from Christ if it would get my brethren in”?

5. In Exodus 34:9, the English text of most bibles reads “O Lord, let my Lord…” which is a translation of the Hebrew Adonai which means ‘lord’. However, in pre-Masoretic Hebrew Torahs, ‘adonai’ does not occur and in it’s place are the letters “yod hey vav hey”, which occur twice. What are the implications of this violation of Deut 4:2?