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Travelers about to visit a foreign country often study a guidebook with information about that country. Especially helpful are clear, easy-to-use maps, background information on the local area, and articles about important sites to visit. Similarly, the Bible confronts many readers today with a kind of “foreign country in writing” whose customs and culture aren’t always clear. The Eerdmans...

As he did with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, God speaks to Moses directly, yet here God appears not as a man but in flames of fire. (Throughout Exodus, fire and smoke symbolize God’s presence; esp. 19:18.) The sight of a burning but unconsumed bush at Horeb (traditionally identified with Jebel Musa in the southern Sinai Peninsula; Moses later receives the Ten Commandments at Horeb [= Mount Sinai of ch. 19]) captures Moses’ attention, and he responds to God’s call from the midst of the bush with
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