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The book of Exodus is literally a story about “going out,” and as such, it touches on something all of us have in common: each of our lives is marked by different kinds of goings out and comings in. J. Gerald Janzen reads the Exodus story as both the story of a particular people and a revelation of God’s concern for the liberation and redemption of all people. The lessons of Exodus are...

time God does not remember but resolves to come down. Yet the resolve to bring the people out of Egypt and into “a good and broad land” arises out of that memory of the covenant made with the ancestors (compare Gen. 15:17–21). With us, faithful response is rooted in memory. Here it is suggested that the same holds true for God. What God says to Moses in 3:9–10 may strike one at first as an unnecessary repetition of 3:7–8; and one way to analyze this passage is to attribute these two sets of verses
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