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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...

the second and third group? If what the people will know from all this is that “I am Yahweh who has freed you,” why is this knowing not placed right after the first group of three verbs? Why is the knowing delayed until mention of the Mount Sinai covenant? And if knowing God as liberator from bondage is delayed at all, why does it not come after the seventh verb, when God’s redemption is fully complete? What is the importance of Mount Sinai, in knowing that Yahweh is a liberator? The book of Exodus,
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