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From oppression to deliverance to intimacy with God, the storyline of Exodus influences the entire Bible. In Exodus the giver of the law, Moses, anticipates the fulfiller of the law, Jesus. This book is the linchpin for the story of salvation, and the key to the Old Testament understanding of God’s people and their life with him. H. Junia Pokrifka has combined both scholarship and creativity to...

Exodus, a mass murderer who decrees infanticide is punished by divine execution of all the firstborn of his nation. ■ 13 The Hebrew term for murder (rāṣaḥ; “kill”) refers to both premeditated and accidental killing of a person. The prohibition here, however, is for hateful premeditated killing (see Deut 19:11–13) and not accidental killing (see vv 4–7). Interestingly, the term rāṣaḥ is “never employed when the subject of the action is God or an angel” (Sarna 2004, 84). The prohibition
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