God had delivered his people from Egypt to demonstrate his power and to give them a global impact. He had chosen them to “make [his] name known in all the earth.” The Israelites had been eyewitnesses and recipients of God’s redemptive power. By delivering them from bondage, he had revealed his absolute control over nature, over Egypt, and over all the Egyptian gods. Throughout the Old Testament, generation after generation of Israel would look back on this one event as the pivotal event in their