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Johnstone asks, “What kind of book is Exodus?” He describes it not only as a history book couched in a narrative, but also as a book dominated by stipulations for religious services, legal practices, and cultic institutions. As such, the author also states the book is also part calendar and liturgical handbook and part code of law. Johnstone thus divides the book into sections on historical...

the water of Egypt into blood, then Pharaoh’s magicians prove that they can do the same; in the fifth plague all the cattle of the Egyptians die but are smitten with boils in the sixth, killed by hail in the seventh and their firstborn perish along with all the other firstborn of Egypt in the tenth; from midnight on the night of the tenth plague there is time for news of the catastrophe to reach the Pharaoh from all over the land of Egypt, for Pharaoh to summon Moses and Aaron and for 2–3 million
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