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The book of Exodus is a key to understanding the Bible. Without it, the Bible would lack three early scenes: deliverance, covenant, and worship. Exodus provides the events and narrative, along with the themes and imagery foundational for understanding the story of Israel and of Jesus. You can read Exodus on your own, and its main themes will be clear enough. But an expert can sharpen your...

murdered his brother Abel (Gen 4), God judged him. It was wrong for Shechem to rape Dinah (Gen 34) and for Abraham to lie (Gen 12:10–20) even before the giving of what came to be known as the seventh and ninth commandments. The significance of the Ten Commandments is not that these admonitions and prohibitions came into being for the first time. The significance has more to do with the transition of God’s people from being a family to being a nation. The nation needed what was in essence a constitution
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