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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...

repeated phrase “that you would know that I am the LORD”). Such knowledge of Yahweh would ultimately lead mercifully to the salvation of the Egyptians. In the crisis narrative in chs 32–34, divine judgments concern primarily the Israelites. After the golden calf incident, God threatens to destroy the Israelites and start afresh with Moses (32:9–10), which would be within the appropriate limits of justice as defined by the covenant laws. In this dire context, divine freedom is expressed in God’s choice
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