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#965 - Exodus 1-2:10 - Birth of Moses · The Bible Study Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Life Audio The Bible Study Podcast, Episode nine to sixty five. Today,
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  Speaker 1: The Bible Study Podcast begins a study of the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Exodus. Welcome to the Bible Study Podcast. I'm your host,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Christensen. I know I said I was going to
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  Speaker 1: study Leviticus, but we're going to do that sometime later.
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  Speaker 1: First we're going to do the Book of Exodus, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you why right after a word from this sponsor.
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  Speaker 1: So I was planning, as I said, of doing Exodus
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  Speaker 1: or Leviticus, but was leaning towards Leviticus. And I had
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  Speaker 1: a number of people ask me to do at the
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  Speaker 1: Book of Exodus, and I am going to do that
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  Speaker 1: because it really is one of the major stories of
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament upon which everything keeps looking back on,
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  Speaker 1: except for obviously the Book of Genesis that I haven't
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  Speaker 1: covered yet on the Bible Study Podcast. I really haven't
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  Speaker 1: covered that whole book. If you wonder why I hesitate,
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  Speaker 1: Either book that I start is probably a year long study,
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  Speaker 1: as the study of Luke was. I actually did fifty
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  Speaker 1: two different episodes on Luke and they came out weekly,
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  Speaker 1: So you do the math. It took a year to
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  Speaker 1: walk through the Gospel of Luke, we're probably talking about
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  Speaker 1: a year or so to walk through either of these books.
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  Speaker 1: I will do Leviticus at some time later. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if it'll be the next thing I do. I'll
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  Speaker 1: decide that a year from now. But first let's jump
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  Speaker 1: into Exodus one the Israelites oppressed. These are the names
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  Speaker 1: of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: each with his family Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Isakar
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  Speaker 1: Zebulon and Benjamin, Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. The
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  Speaker 1: descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all. Joseph was already
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt, so let's pause here for a second. We're
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  Speaker 1: continuing on a story that was started in the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Genesis. And if you go back to the study
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  Speaker 1: we did on Genesis, or just open up your Bible
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  Speaker 1: to the Genesis, you'll get the story of Joseph and
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  Speaker 1: his amazing technicolor dream code if you do the Broadway
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  Speaker 1: version of it. But Joseph and his coat of many colors,
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  Speaker 1: who he's one of twelve brothers, and his brothers are
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  Speaker 1: jealous of him and they sell him into slavery into Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: where he rises to prominence because he can interpret dreams
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  Speaker 1: and helps Egypt get through a terrible, terrible famine and
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  Speaker 1: becomes second in charge, second only to Pharaoh. And because
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  Speaker 1: of this terrible famine, his family, his eleven brothers and
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  Speaker 1: his father end up moving to Egypt, and they settle
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And that's where
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  Speaker 1: our story starts. But this is a number of years later,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll find out how many in a little bit here. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
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  Speaker 1: But the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful. They multiplied greatly, increased
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  Speaker 1: in numbers, and became soon numerous that the land was
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  Speaker 1: filled with them. Then a new king, to whom Joseph
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  Speaker 1: meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. Look, he said
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  Speaker 1: to his people, the Israelites had become far too numerous
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  Speaker 1: for us. Come. We must deal shrewdly with them, or
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  Speaker 1: they will become even more numerous. And if war breaks out,
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  Speaker 1: we'll join our enemies fight against us and leave the country.
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  Speaker 1: So they put slave masters over them to oppress them
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  Speaker 1: with forced labor, and they built Pithon and Rameses as
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  Speaker 1: store cities for pharaoh. But the more they were oppressed,
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  Speaker 1: the more they multiplied and spread. So the Egyptians came
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  Speaker 1: to dread the Israelites and worked them ruthlessly. They made
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  Speaker 1: their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar,
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  Speaker 1: and with all kinds of work in the fields, and
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  Speaker 1: in their harsh labor, the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly. So
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  Speaker 1: at this point the Israelites have become slaves in Egypt. Now,
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  Speaker 1: remember they were never a nation when they moved into Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: they were seventy people. But they've now become so numerous
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  Speaker 1: that they're a threat to the nation they'rein, or at
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  Speaker 1: least that's how this new pharaoh, this new king perceives them.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of what time frame we're talking about, this
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  Speaker 1: is most likely the pharaoh here being Ramses, the second
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  Speaker 1: or the nineteenth dynasty pharaoh in the New Kingdom. And
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  Speaker 1: we say that because of that of those treasure cities
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  Speaker 1: that were built, and this would be the Ramses of
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  Speaker 1: Abu Simbal. If you're in Egypt, there's not Egyptian history
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  Speaker 1: to corroborate with that, and so take that with a
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  Speaker 1: grain of salt. The King of Egypt said to the
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiprah and Pua, when you
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  Speaker 1: were helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool,
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  Speaker 1: if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him,
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  Speaker 1: but if it is a girl, let her live. Then
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  Speaker 1: the midwives, however, feared God and did not do what
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  Speaker 1: the King of Egypt had told them to do. They
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  Speaker 1: let the boys live. Then the King of Egypt some
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  Speaker 1: of the midwives and ask them, why have you done this?
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  Speaker 1: Why have you let the boys live? Then midwives answered Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women. They are vigorous
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  Speaker 1: and give birth before the midwife arrives. So God was
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  Speaker 1: kind to the midwives, and the people increased and became
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  Speaker 1: even more numerous. And because the midwives feared God, he
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  Speaker 1: gave them families of their own. Then Pharaoh gave this
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  Speaker 1: order to all his people. Every Hebrew boy that is born,
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  Speaker 1: you must throw into the nile, but let every girl live.
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  Speaker 1: So things have gotten really bad here where They're gotten
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  Speaker 1: to the point where they are so afraid of these
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  Speaker 1: people and how numerous they're becoming. They want to kill
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  Speaker 1: all the boys that are born. And that leads right
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  Speaker 1: into the story of Moses. So we're gonna move on
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  Speaker 1: into chapter two, the Birth of Moses. Now, a man
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  Speaker 1: of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, and
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  Speaker 1: she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When
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  Speaker 1: she saw that he was a fine child, she hid
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  Speaker 1: him for three months, But when she could hide him
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  Speaker 1: no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and
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  Speaker 1: coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the
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  Speaker 1: child in it and put it among the reeds along
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  Speaker 1: the bank of the Nile. His sister stood at a
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  Speaker 1: distance to see what would happen to him. Then Pharaoh's
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  Speaker 1: daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her
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  Speaker 1: attendants were walking along the river bank. She saw the
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  Speaker 1: basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to
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  Speaker 1: get it. She opened it and saw the baby. He
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  Speaker 1: was crying, and she felt sorry for him. This is
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  Speaker 1: one of the Hebrew babies, she said. Then his sister
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  Speaker 1: asked Pharaoh's daughter, shall I go and get one of
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  Speaker 1: the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you? Yes, Goo,
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  Speaker 1: she answered, So the girl went and got the bait
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  Speaker 1: baby's mother. Pharaoh's daughter said to her, take this baby
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  Speaker 1: and nurse her for me, and I will pay you.
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  Speaker 1: So the woman took the baby and nursed him. When
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  Speaker 1: the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter
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  Speaker 1: and he became her son. She named Moses, saying I
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  Speaker 1: drew him out of the water, and Moses sounds like
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  Speaker 1: the Hebrew word for to draw out. So because the
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  Speaker 1: boys are being targeted by Pharaoh, we see that first
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  Speaker 1: Moses is being hidden by his mother, and at some
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  Speaker 1: point she doesn't think she can hide him any longer,
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  Speaker 1: so she puts him in this basket, but sends along
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  Speaker 1: his sister, and we are not told her name here,
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  Speaker 1: but we know that her name was Miriam. We will
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  Speaker 1: meet her later on. He has an older brother as well,
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  Speaker 1: who is not included in this account, but will be
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  Speaker 1: meeting him pretty soon. And the sister is watching this
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  Speaker 1: basket keeping an eye on him when Pharaoh's daughter comes.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where everything changes for Moses. And if
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  Speaker 1: you've ever seen the movie A Prince of Egypt, this
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  Speaker 1: is how Moses becomes a Prince of Egypt. This is
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  Speaker 1: how he is raised not as a slave, as a
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew slave, but raised in Pharaoh's court, raised as Pharaoh's
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  Speaker 1: daughter's son. Now Pharaoh has a lot of daughters and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of wives, so it doesn't mean that he's
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  Speaker 1: heir to the throne or anything like that, but it
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  Speaker 1: is a very different change in position. It all happens
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  Speaker 1: because Pharaoh's daughter stumbles across this child and the sister,
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  Speaker 1: and I think the sister is the one who really
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  Speaker 1: is smart in this. Shall I get you one of
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  Speaker 1: the Hebrew women to nurse well, gets his mother. So
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  Speaker 1: the mother nurses Moses, and when he is weaned, apparently
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  Speaker 1: brings this baby back to Pharaoh's daughter and he becomes
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  Speaker 1: her son. And so he is going to grow up
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  Speaker 1: in the palace, although we're going to see very very
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  Speaker 1: little of that. We're going to see what happens instead
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  Speaker 1: next week when we continue the story. But with that,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to end this episode of the Bible Study Podcast.
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