The Genesis story ends with a small tribe of Abraham’s people making their way to Egypt to escape famine. Exodus opens four hundred years later and describes a vast number of people living in bondage to the Egyptian Pharaoh and the gods he represents. If Abraham’s descendants are to be a people of blessing to the nations, they must first be liberated from the Egyptian gods. And so there is a dramatic showdown between Moses, who represents the Lord, and Pharaoh, the human representative of