Through the Bible - Exodus - Part 1 — Zac Poonen

Exodus: Israel’s Deliverance and God’s Sovereignty

We are going to begin now. Let's turn to Exodus in chapter 1. If Genesis, we could say, is the book of beginnings, we could title Exodus as a nation is born, the birth of the Israeli nation as a nation, the beginnings we saw in Genesis, and now we find them becoming a full-fledged nation.

And in the first 15 chapters, we read of their slavery in Egypt and their deliverance, or we could call it redemption from Egypt. And the rest of the chapter deals with their time in the wilderness and God's giving them His plan for building the tabernacle.

So let's look at this. In the beginning, we read of how Pharaoh was disturbed. The Israelites, even though they were slaves, they were becoming more numerous and more powerful numerically. And he was afraid that these men would finally stop working for him and overthrow his government.

So he decided on a scheme to kill all the male children. Now, that was a scheme of the devil. Now, what did we see in our last studies? Not just that God protects us from the devil's schemes, but God does something better.

He uses the devil's plan to fulfill His purpose. And that shows His almightiness in a much greater way. I mean, God could show His almightiness to us by protecting us from the devil. That itself would be great.

But He shows it in a greater way by turning the tables on Satan, using the very thing that Satan does to destroy him. And the greatest example of this is Calvary, where Satan got everybody geared up and engineered opposition to Jesus, got Him crucified, and that was the very thing that resulted in the overthrow of Satan, because Satan was defeated on that cross.

We can say Satan contributed to His overthrow. Now, this is not just for Jesus. It's for you and me. It's not just for Joseph. It's not just for the people in the Bible. That the things which the devil seeks to do for you, if you live with a clear conscience and in humility before God, he'll turn it back on the devil, and the very thing that evil people and the devil and all his agents seek to do to you will ultimately fulfill God's purpose for your life.

This is the message of the Bible. How do we see it here? Because Pharaoh passed an order that all the male babies must be killed. That was the reason why Moses' mother put Moses in a little ark and put it in the river, and that's how Pharaoh's daughter saw Moses, picked him up, and Moses could grow up in Pharaoh's palace, which is the place where God wanted him to be.

That could never have happened if the male babies were not being killed. If the male babies were not being killed, Moses would have grown up just to be another slave. You see how God's purposes are fulfilled through what the devil does.

Moses’ Preparation Through Humiliation and Brokenness

And the thing we see here is a great lesson for us. We see it in church history too. That when God wants to do something for his people, he always begins with a man. He had to find a man before he could deliver the Israelites.

And the training of that man took 80 years. And it wasn't academic training alone. Moses was trained in the best academies of Egypt, but that did not qualify him to serve God. Acts chapter 7, Stephen says that Moses was mighty in words and in deeds.

That means he was a powerful, eloquent speaker when he was 40 years old. He was a great military leader. He was a very rich person. He had been trained with the best education that Egypt could give. And Egypt was the world's superpower in those days.

And at the end of it all, he's not fit. In fact, Stephen says, Moses thought that the Israelites would recognize that God had raised up a prince in Egypt's palace to deliver them. But it says they did not recognize him.

He was not ready. All his earthly training, all his earthly abilities, could not prepare him for the task God had for him. Today, people go to Bible schools and study the scriptures, and they're qualified.

They think they've got a singing voice. They've got abilities with instruments. It's all good. And, oh, they've got money. They say we can use money for God's work. So many things. So many resources, abilities.

Learn a lesson from Moses. With the best that he had. Egypt was the world's superpower in those days. Something like the United States today. Pharaoh was the most powerful man in the world. And Moses was growing up in that palace with the best training, with engineering ability to build pyramids.

With all of that, he was not fit. Powerful speaker? No use. Forty years of the best that the world could give did not prepare him for God's service. God took him for another forty years into the wilderness to a completely opposite life to what he had, looking after sheep, living with his father-in-law for forty years.

I mean, living with your father-in-law for one year itself can be pretty difficult for a man. I mean, women in our country live with their father-in-laws all their life very often. But man, living with his wife's father and getting a job from his wife's father.

Can you imagine anything more humiliating than that? Not just for one or two years, but forty years. That's how God broke Moses. That's how God broke Jacob. You remember? He had to live with his father-in-law for twenty years.

And God uses fathers-in-law, I tell you that, to break people. And mothers-in-law also, I presume. I don't know how Moses' mother-in-law was. But God uses mothers-in-law, fathers-in-law to teach Moses what all the world's abilities cannot teach him.

All the universities in Egypt cannot teach what he learns there. Looking after sheep, working for his father-in-law, all the humiliation of living in the same tent. And at the end of forty years, he's so broken that he says, Lord, I can't speak.

Please send somebody else. And God says, Now you're ready. What is the message we learn from Jacob and from Moses? When you think you're ready, you're not. When you think you're capable, you're strong, you've got knowledge, you've got ability, you can do this, you can sing, you can play, you can speak.

I have to wait. I have to wait till you're broken. With Jacob, it took twenty years. With Moses, it took forty years. With Peter, it took three years. With Paul, at least three years. It need not take long.

That depends on you. How long does it take to go through school from first standard to tenth standard? How many years? Ten years? I'll tell you people who've taken fifteen years. Twenty years. I know some people who study in some of the medical colleges in Bangalore who spend fifteen years to finish a four-year course.

So, the course may be only so much, but how long you take depends on you. It's the same in the Christian life. God had a training program for Moses. Now I'll give you my personal conviction. It says here, there's a verse in Exodus in chapter twelve and verse forty which says that the time that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

Now when God spoke to Abraham in Genesis chapter fifteen and told him that your descendants are going to be slaves in another land, he told him in Genesis fifteen and verse thirteen that they will be there for four hundred years.

And actually we read they were there for four hundred and thirty years. Did God make a mistake? God is very exact. In the fullness of time God sent his son. It was exact. You read Daniel chapter nine, the very year is predicted when Jesus will be crucified.

So God doesn't make a mistake. When God spoke to Abraham, his plan was Israelites should be in Egypt for four hundred years. Why did it take four hundred and thirty years? Let me give you another example.

When God brought the Israelites out of Egypt, his plan for them was that they should be two years in the wilderness. How many years did they spend in the wilderness? Forty years. God may want to break you in two years.

How many years may it take? Forty years. In other words, God may want to use you in two years. He may not be able to use you for forty years. That depends on you. So God's plan for the Israelites was four hundred years.

But it took four hundred and thirty years. How many years extra? Thirty years. Why? I believe the reason is God's man was not ready. And from that I deduce that when Moses left the palace of Egypt at forty, God had wanted him to spend ten years in the wilderness with his father-in-law broken by then and come out at the age of fifty to be a leader.

But Moses did not learn his lessons in ten years. His father-in-law had to trouble him some more for him to learn some lessons. Thirty more years. Now this is a warning for us. God may have a plan for your life.

It will never begin to be fulfilled till you are broken. And what he has planned to do in ten years may take forty years. Learn a lesson from that and take a warning. It's good. Lamentations 3 says, It's good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth.

When we are young, if we can learn this by the time we are thirty, we are ready. Yeah, God takes us through many lessons to break us. Humble yourself under those circumstances. Don't fight against those circumstances and delay God's plan.

Any amount of Bible knowledge, any amount of musical ability, any amount of money cannot serve God. Jacob becomes an Israel when he is broken. Moses becomes a servant of God and a prophet when he is broken.

Human Ability Contrasted With God’s Power

Now let's turn to Exodus 2. We read there of a time when Moses goes out to deliver the Israelites from the Egyptians. And he meets an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, Exodus 2. And he beats him and kills him.

Can you imagine what a powerful man he was? That with his hands he could kill a man. Now if he had continued killing the Egyptians at that rate, one by one, how many years do you think he would have taken to kill all the millions of Egyptians?

He would have died before all the Egyptians were killed if he had killed them one by one. That's the result of human ability. But when God had broken him at the age of eighty, and he lifts up his rod over the Red Sea, in a moment, the entire Egyptian army is buried under the Red Sea forever.

That is the difference between human power and God's power. That is the difference between a man serving with his human ability and a broken man serving with the power of God. Let me encourage you, my brothers and sisters, the message in the scriptures right from the beginning is if you want to build Jerusalem, if you want to build a church, you've got to be broken.

You've got to be a broken man. You've got to be humbled by God through circumstances, through people. And if you don't rebel in those circumstances, God can do a quick work in you. Yeah, God can do a quick work in you.

I've seen a lot of people, very zealous young people who know all the doctrines and who think that they can serve God and they go out in their strength. Twenty, thirty years later, they are frustrated, discouraged, critical, blame this person, that person.

They've accomplished nothing. I feel sad. I tell you, my life is exciting. I'm 61 years old today. I've been born again for over 41 years. And I believe the best lies ahead of me. I'm so excited to live for God.

I'm so excited to live for God. It's the best possible thing in the world. I don't have a complaint against anyone in the world. Nobody's ever done any harm to me. People have tried to do harm. Many, many people.

But all that they did only worked for my good. Like it says in Romans 8, 28. So I have no complaints. But God's had to break me, even in the last few years, through circumstances and events that other people try to do, to harm me.

I humble myself under God and He breaks me, continues to break me throughout my life. And the more we are broken, the more God can make us a blessing to others. You see in the book of Exodus, when the rock is smitten, the waters flow.

If the rock is not smitten, the waters will not flow. When the alabaster vial the woman brought and broke it at Jesus' feet, the perfume filled the house. When it's not broken, it doesn't fill the house.

When Jesus took the loaves and blessed it, nothing happened. When He broke it, five thousand were fed. What is the message in all these things? Brokenness, brokenness, brokenness, brokenness. When the atom is split, what tremendous power is released to give electricity to a whole city.

Small atom, so small that you can hardly see it. The message in nature, the message in the Bible is power is released through brokenness. If you've got that message, and it's gripped your life, God gripped me with that message.

Thirty-six years ago, when I was seeking God for the baptism in the Holy Spirit and power. Before I left my job, I was seeking God for power, and the Lord showed me that the way of brokenness was the way of power.

And I've never lost my sight of that. I want to encourage you young people to learn that lesson when you're young. We read here that when God finally called Moses, and He says, I'm reluctant to go. Just one thing I want to say here.

Faith, God’s Promises, and What Is in Our Hands

God made a promise here through Moses to the people. He said to them in Exodus 3 .17, I will bring you, He told all those elders and the leaders of Israel, I will bring you out of Egypt into the land of the Canaanites.

There were two promises there. I'll bring you out of Egypt. I'll bring you into Canaan. Only one was fulfilled. The other was not fulfilled. This is to prove to you that God's promises are not fulfilled always.

Here is a clear proof. All those elders who heard the promise of God, I will bring you out of Egypt. I'll bring you into Canaan. None of them entered Canaan. Only half was fulfilled because they did not respond in faith.

That's what I want to say to you. God's promises are not fulfilled until you respond in faith. It's like a switch. You know what happens in a switch? One wire, you know electricity, you need two wires.

And at the switch, the electrician puts those two wires next to each other. They don't touch. That's why the lights are not burning. The moment you put the switch, they touch. The lights come on, the fans come on.

God's promise and your faith, it may be that close, it doesn't touch. And no lights, no fan, nothing works. The moment it touches, everything, power. Can you imagine a small switch and the whole building becoming full of power?

Such a small gap there is in a switch between those two wires. It makes all the difference. God's promise, you can hear about it, you can understand it. But when your faith reaches out and says, yes, it will be fulfilled in my life.

That's when it's fulfilled. And only Joshua and Caleb believed that it would be fulfilled. And only Joshua and Caleb experienced it. Exodus chapter 4, we read about God calling Moses. And in order to encourage him and to teach him, he gave him three signs.

The first sign was, you know when Moses said, how they won't believe me, verse 1, what will I say? The first sign he said, the Lord said, what is in your hand? The Lord always begins with what is in our hand.

You don't have to go looking for something you don't have. What do you have? That's enough. Elisha asked the widow, what do you have in your house? A pot of oil? That's enough. With that pot of oil, all your problems can be solved.

The Lord asked Moses, what's in your hand? A shepherd's staff. Okay. That's enough. If God is with that shepherd's staff, all types of things can happen. And what is the first sign? Throw your shepherd's staff on the ground.

It became a serpent. Verse 3, and Moses fled from it. And the Lord said, don't be scared. Stretch out your hand and take it by the tail. And he caught it and became a staff in his hand. What is the message there?

Authority Over Satan and the Corruption of the Flesh

Overcoming Satan. That's the first thing we need to learn. We need to learn that we don't have to be afraid of Satan. We don't have to be afraid of that serpent. We have to learn that Satan is so close to us right in our hand.

You think Satan is far from us? It was right in Moses' hand. Cast it down and you see there's a devil there. There's selfishness very close to us, right in our flesh. Satan has got his citadels and his forts.

But we don't have to be afraid of him. We don't have to run away from this serpent. In Jesus' name, we can take that and the very thing we are afraid of becomes a rod of authority in our hand to split the Red Sea and to lead God's people on.

One of the first things God's servants need is authority. Not knowledge. Authority. I would rather have a man who has spiritual authority even if he has less Bible knowledge than a man with a lot of Bible knowledge but no spiritual authority.

The trouble today is a lot of preachers have a lot of Bible knowledge. Some don't even have that. But some have knowledge but they have no authority. The first thing God said to Moses is you need authority in your life.

You need authority over the enemy. You must not be afraid of Satan. Satan shouldn't put a fear in your heart. Secondly, the Lord said, now, verse 6, with the same hand, now put your hand inside your bosom.

Put it inside your shirt. And when he took it out, it was full of leprosy. That's the second thing you need to learn. The corruption that is inside your own heart, inside your flesh. You think it's not there.

Put your hand inside and see. Ask God to give you light on what's inside your self. And you'll see a lot of, it's like leprosy. Corrupt. That's the second thing you need to see. That in your flesh, like Paul said, dwells no good thing.

Romans 7, 18. Nothing good dwells in my flesh. You cannot serve God until you learn that. Because if you don't learn that, you will go around condemning people as if they have got a worse flesh than yours.

I thank God that God has shown me one thing. Well, he's shown me this first thing, that Satan, I don't have to be afraid of him, that I've got authority over Satan. He's also shown me the second thing, that my flesh is as corrupt as the flesh of anybody in the world.

Nobody can commit a sin which I'm incapable of. If I have not done it, maybe it's God's mercy or circumstances or something like that, but I'm not worse than that fellow. If you think that you are better than another human being on this earth, I want to tell you in Jesus' name, you are unfit to be a servant of God.

To be a servant of God, you've got to recognize that you are no better than the worst human being on the earth. Put your hand inside and see. That's the second lesson. The third lesson was, he said in verse 9, take some of the water from the Nile and pour it out on the dry ground and it'll become like blood.

Now water is the most essential thing for life. It's not like food. You can live without food, you can't live without water. And blood is a picture of death. So I see this as a symbol. God was trying to, for me the lesson is, that all the things of this earth, you know the river Nile was the thing that the Egyptians worshipped.

That was their God, the river Nile. He said, even all this, you must pour it out to death. A picture of being crucified to the world and the world being crucified to me that I have no more attraction.

This is not like water to me now. It's like blood. If it were water, I would drink it. Do you drink blood when the water is turned into blood? Can you drink it? You would rather be thirsty than drink that.

Filthy blood. And that's the way I need to see everything in this world. If you want to be a servant of God, you got to look at all the attractive things in this world and not only the attractive things, even the things that you think are necessary and say, Lord, I am crucified to it.

Nothing in this world can attract me anymore. These are three essential qualifications for a servant of God. That's what we see there in Exodus 4. And then he sends him out and Moses, before he goes to meet Pharaoh, he has to learn one more lesson.

Obedience in the Home and the Cost of Being God’s Servant

In verse 24 to 26 of chapter 4, as Moses and Moses has now agreed to go to Pharaoh, he's equipped and he goes. The man whom God has trained for 80 years. There's only one man on the face of the earth who is important to God's purpose at this time.

We are not like that today. Today God has many servants but at that time he had only one man. All his purposes depend on one man. And it says in Exodus 4 .24 that the Lord tried to kill him. Now, if we read there that Satan tried to kill him, we can understand that.

I can understand Satan trying to kill Moses. But the Lord trying to kill him? Why? Because there was disobedience in his own house. He had not circumcised his son. Because his wife was not a Jew. His wife was the daughter of Jethro who was not a Jew and she said, No.

They had an argument when the son was born. We're not going to circumcise. You keep all your Jewish customs to yourself. And Moses humbly obeyed. And he was living in his father-in-law's house and his wife was the boss.

And he said, Okay, I won't circumcise. And God said, You can't go and lead Israel out of Egypt if you can't lead your own home. The Bible says, If a man cannot run his own home, 1 Timothy 3, how can he run God's house?

Be the head in your own home first. I've seen people who go out to serve God who are scared of their wives. How can such a man serve God? That's what God had to teach Moses. Be the head in your home. Get your son circumcised.

If you can't bring up your children, at least when they're in your home, in a godly way, how can you serve God? That's the lesson we learn here. Such a serious thing that God said, Moses, even though you're the most important man for me on earth, if you don't obey me, I'll kill you.

And his wife understood it. And so, as soon as she saw that her husband is dying delirious with fever, she knew what the reason was. She took a sharp stone and cut off her son's foreskin and in anger said, You are a bridegroom of blood to me.

And, I think Moses did one wise thing. He sent his wife home and carried on with his ministry. He didn't want any hindrance there. And, you see there, how God is so strict with his servants. Other people, He'll allow them to do many things.

But if you are to be one of God's choice servants, He's going to require obedience in the smallest thing. He's going to look into areas of your life that other people He doesn't bother about. If you borrow ten rupees from somebody and didn't return it, if you are to be a choice servant of God, God will keep on troubling you till you go and return it.

You borrowed a book from someone that you just completely forgot about to return. You kept it in your house and it's lying there. You see it. God says, Go and give it back. He doesn't do that for everybody because all of them are not God's choice servants.

Most of them are just compromisers and living for themselves. God leaves them alone. But if you are a choice servant of God, He will not allow you to write one false statement in a report. He will not allow you to be unfaithful with one rupee of money.

Not even one rupee. Other believers can do what they like. They can be unfaithful with millions but not you. Do you want to be a choice servant of God? Do you want God to watch over you with such a jealous care?

That's the price you have to pay. This is the man who finally stands before Pharaoh. You know, when you got a clear conscience before God, when you have stood before God, what is a world's most powerful man, Pharaoh?

A bit of sand. Dust. For a man who has lived before God's face, Pharaoh is nothing. This is how a servant of God must be. This is the type of servant of God we need in India. People who live before God's face like Elijah told Ahab, I live before God's face.

I'm not worried about anyone. I don't fear man. I don't go buttering cabinet ministers, MLAs, MPs, like we see lot of preachers doing today. That's the only way to survive brother in India because we don't know God.

That's right. When you don't know God, that is the only way to survive. I fully agree with you. But that's not the way Moses survived. That's not the way Elijah survived. They lived before God. And when they lived before God, they had God backing them and they couldn't care less.

Leave alone MPs and MLAs and cabinet ministers. They could not care less for Pharaoh, the most powerful man and the greatest superpower in the world at that time. Do you want to be a servant of God like this?

I tell you, don't look around at the servants of God you see in our land. Look into the scriptures. That's the type of man God's looking for even today. Men who don't care for man's approval, who don't want man's money, who don't want backing from political people or anybody.

They want the backing from God. That's how Moses stood before Pharaoh. And God backed up Moses completely. Why doesn't God back up so many people who claim to be servants of God today? Why do I say God doesn't back them up?

I've heard these preachers when they get up to preach, they bore me to death. Can you say a man who's boring is backed up by God? Rubbish. There is no anointing in their words. There's no authority in their life.

Even young people, wishy-washy, sluggish, compromisers because they're seeking to please men. Paul said, if I seek to please a single man, I cannot be a servant of Christ. That's how Moses lived and I want to encourage all of you to be like that.

Don't seek to please men. Seek to please God. Let men treat you as they like. Let them treat you like dirt. The apostles were treated like garbage. Jesus was treated like garbage. But they were men of God.

They lived before God's face. They didn't want any backing from human beings. They wanted God's backing. And he stood before Pharaoh and God backs him with all those miracles. There were, you know, the plagues of blood and frogs and lice and flies and diseases on the livestock and boils and hail and locusts and darkness.

Nine plagues. And then the last one. The death of the firstborn. And it says some of those plagues we read in chapter 7 and verse 11 that the magicians of Egypt could also do it. They could do it up to a certain point as tricks.

You know how magicians do tricks. But they did it to resist Moses. And this is quoted in the New Testament in 2nd Timothy 3 verse 8 as a picture of counterfeit Christians opposing godly people. You know, 2nd Timothy 3 speaks about those who have a form of godliness without its power.

2nd Timothy 3 verse 5 and then it goes on three verses later to speak about Janus and Jambres opposing Moses. Just like the Pharisees opposed Jesus. Just like the Jews opposed Paul. Janus and Jambres opposed Moses.

Like the false prophets opposed Elijah. And the false prophets opposed Jeremiah. And throughout church history there have been the professional preachers who stand against the prophets of God. That God has raised up in generation after generation in the different lands.

It's always been the same thing. There's a man whom God has raised up as a prophet and there's the professional preacher who's got all his certificates and his degrees and his robes opposing the man of God.

It's always been like that. John the Baptist opposed by the professional religious establishment. It's the same thing pictured there. But it didn't make a difference because ultimately Moses triumphed.

He stood before God. He didn't want to please that professional religious establishment. And if you're gonna be a man of God you're not gonna seek to please the professional religious establishment whatever their titles whatever their robes if they don't know God.

The knowledge of God is the most important thing. I respect a man who knows God and in whose life I can see by his life and his words here's a man who knows God who's got discernment of God's ways because he lives before God's face.

Passover Redemption and Salvation Through Faith

That's how Moses was. That is what we learn in those early chapters of Exodus. That is what God wants to do and produce in our lives. And in Exodus chapter 12 onwards we read about the deliverance of the Israelites.

They were told to put the blood upon the door posts and eat the Passover. They were to use hyssop. Hyssop was a very common plant easily found and it's a picture of faith. Faith is very easily found. Use the hyssop dip it into the blood put it on the door.

That's what we do with the blood of Jesus Christ the lamb that was slain. Pictured way back there in Exodus chapter 12 a picture of Jesus Christ who was crucified nearly 1500 years later on the same Passover day.

On the day when Israel left Egypt the 14th day of the first month for the Israeli calendar that is the day Jesus was crucified. And God who looked into the future and saw the day that Jesus was crucified that was the day he chose to deliver Israel out of Egypt.

That's why Israel's deliverance from Egypt has got a big lesson for us. How were they delivered? Not by their good life. Not by good works. Ephesians 2 is very clear not of good works faith. God didn't go checking inside each house well however you live let me examine your life for the last 30 years.

He only examined do you have faith that the only way you can be delivered is by the blood shed of an innocent lamb you dip the hyssop in the blood put it outside your door and say this is what I trust in not my good works not my religious activities and the angel of death will never come into your house.

That's the way of salvation. So that no man can boast saying I got saved because I lived a pretty good life. No. The man who lived a pretty good life and the man who lived a bad life have both got to be saved through the blood of the lamb and if somebody thought there in Israel one of the Israelites thought well I lived a pretty good life I don't believe God will judge me and he didn't put the blood outside the door do you know what would have happened?

Death would have come into his house and he would have discovered that the best life was not good enough the blood of the lamb alone could save him and now I know that people have misused this truth abused it to live careless lives and say oh then it doesn't matter how we live no it does matter because Ephesians 2 which says not of works lest any man should boast.

In the next verse Ephesians 2 .10 says after you're saved God has created good works for you to do. So we're not talking about good works before salvation. You can't save yourself by your good works but after you're saved if you don't have good works I doubt whether your faith is genuine at all.

That's what James says. Ok so that's a picture one of the clearest pictures of redemption way back there with the blood of the lamb and feeding on the unleavened bread that night was a picture of feeding on Christ.

It's not enough to put the blood we got to feed on the living Lord. And they were to it says the Lord told them eat it in your traveling clothes. They were to wear traveling clothes ready to travel. And that is how we are to live in this world always ready to go any moment when Jesus calls us in the rapture.

That's how we are to live every day of our life feeding on Christ trusting in the blood in our traveling clothes. This is not our home. Egypt is not our home. We got a journey to go any time the call may come we got to go.

That's how we are to live. And that's what we see there in that passage. I just want to point out one thing to you God's righteousness in Exodus 12 verse 35 and 36 it says the sons of Israel asked the Egyptians to give them gold and silver and clothing.

Why was that? Does God ask his children to demand like that? With the Israelites it was right. It's not right for you and me to go and ask people to give us gold, silver and clothing. But it was right for the Israelites because those Egyptians had made these Israelites work for 430 years or at least 400 years nearly a number of years and never paid them.