event: 1 Kings 8:9, 21 (= 2 Chron. 5:10; 6:11); Pss. 114 passim; 135:8, 9; Hos. 2:15; 11:1; Hag. 2:5. Thus the phenomenon of an exodus-deliverance recurs all over the biblical corpus, in law/covenant, in historical narratives, in the poetry of the Psalms, and in the messages of the prophets, at all dates in the biblical saga from Sinai itself and the plains of Moab down into the Persian period. If there never was an escape from Egyptian servitude by any of Israel’s ancestors, why on earth invent
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