Around 4000 B.C. Creation

Adam and Eve sin and are thrown out of the garden. The God of Israel—true high priest—makes an animal sacrifice to cover Adam and Eve’s nakedness. There can be no remission of sins without the shedding of blood.

2000 B.C. - Abram is called

Ishmael is born.

Isaac is born and Abraham is commanded to sacrifice him to God as an offering. Abraham obeys and is prevented by the Lord who says that he will provide a lamb. This foreshadows the Lamb of God who is sacrificed for the sins of the world.

Jacob is born and after struggling with the angel of the Lord he is renamed Israel.

Israel has twelve sons who are to be the heads of the twelve tribes of Israel. Israel blessed all of his sons before his death and Judah was blessed with the kingdom. King David was from the tribe of Judah, hence the name Judaea and the Jews. after the Assyrian and Babylonian captivity, all the people were reunited in Judaea.

Joseph is sold into captivity and after much suffering is instated to the highest position of authority in the land of Egypt after Pharaoh.

Jacob-Israel-and his eleven sons are brought to Egypt out of the famine in Canaan and they and their families settle in the land of Goshen. The people of Israel grow and multiply and are oppressed by the Pharaoh. This begins the four hundred and thirty years of slavery in Egypt.

Moses-a levite- is born at a time when Pharaoh is killing all the males of the people of Israel. Moses' mother places him in a basket and sends him floating down the nile to be found by Pharaoh's daughter and taken into Pharaoh's palace where he is raised as a son and prince of Egypt. When he is a man he discovers his past, kills and Egyptian to protect a fellow Israelite and flees to Midian where he marries and live until the Lord God of Israel reveals Himself to him and commands him to go to Egypt to set his people free.

Moses relunctatly goes to Egypt and God pours his wrath upon Egypt. The people of Israel are set free by the blood of the lamb on the door posts, led through the red sea and through the wilderness for forty years and into the land of Canaan which was promised to Abraham four hundred and thirty years earlier.

Moses dies and does not enter the land. Instead Joshua leads the people of Israel into the land. After Joshuas's death judges rule in the land.