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A Study Commentary on Exodus: Volume 2: Exodus 19–40 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume, on Exodus chapters 19–40, covers the giving of the law at Mount Sinai and the institution of the Old Testament system of worship, culminating in the consecration of the tabernacle, the visible symbol of God’s presence with his people. The account which began with Israel enduring oppression and in slavery to Pharaoh concludes with them enjoying freedom and traveling to the land of...

slavery married (and apparently his wife is in bondage as well), he and his wife shall both go free during the sabbatical year. 21:4. ‘If his master gives a wife to him, and she bears for him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to his master. And he shall go out by himself.’ If a debtor-slave is provided with a slave-wife during his bondage, then the woman (and any children she might bear) are not freed at the sabbatical year, or at the jubilee. An ancient Near-Eastern law code
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