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Exodus—Saved for God's Glory is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this Preaching the Word volume, Philip Graham Ryken mines the majestic book of Exodus for knowledge of God’s character and instruction for his followers. So much can be learned about God through the accounts of his deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt, his many divine interventions for them, and his transformation of them into an independent nation.

When it comes to the multiplication of the Israelites, some scholars think that the Bible is exaggerating. Niels Peter Lemche claims, “It is generally acknowledged by scholars that the traditions about Israel’s sojourn in Egypt and the exodus of the Israelites are legendary and epic in nature. The very notion that a single family could in the course of a few centuries develop into a whole people, a nation, consisting of hundreds of thousands of individuals, is so fantastic that it deserves no credence
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