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Recounting the greatest event of divine salvation in the Old Testament, the book of Exodus is not merely a story about the Lord God rescuing enslaved Israelites from the power of a despotic and xenophobic dictator. More importantly, it highlights how a compassionate and justice-seeking God transforms the lives of victimized people so that they may experience life in all its fullness in his holy...

they have to be freed from serving Pharaoh. They move from bondage to a supposedly divine king to bonding with the sovereign God (Fretheim 1991a: 1). The two situations could not be more different. Pharaoh enslaves them against their will and subjects them to harsh servitude; YHWH invites the Israelites to submit voluntarily to his lordship over them, vowing to treat them as his ‘treasured possession’ (19:5). Pharaoh conscripts the Israelites to build store-cities using clay bricks; YHWH asks them
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