from judgment. Redemption is from sin and death, and it requires a death penalty for liberation from the death penalty upon us. In the Old Testament, this freedom came by the sacrificial system, the unblemished animal signifying the Christ to come. In v. 4, we see that this was the fortieth year since the departure from Egypt. God’s conditional love and covenant had sentenced a generation to die in the wilderness (except for Caleb and Joshua). The covenant God requires a full and uncompromising allegiance.