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The Story of the Old Testament Like You_ve Never Seen Before · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: But if I told you the Old Testament isn't just
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  Speaker 1: ancient history, It's the blueprint of reality itself. Before the
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  Speaker 1: first star ignited, before time had a name, there was
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  Speaker 1: a voice in the darkness, and when it spoke, everything
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  Speaker 1: changed forever. This isn't the Sunday School version you remember.
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  Speaker 1: This is the raw, unfiltered epic that shaped civilizations, inspired revolutions,
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  Speaker 1: and still haunts our deepest questions about existence. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about a garden where immortality was lost in a single bite,
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  Speaker 1: a flood that erased the world, a tower that tried
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  Speaker 1: to storm heaven, brothers who sold their sibling into slavery,
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  Speaker 1: plagues that humbled the mightiest empire on earth. But here's
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  Speaker 1: what makes it truly mind blowing. Every story connects like
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  Speaker 1: a cosmic puzzle. The serpent in Eden links to the
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  Speaker 1: bronze serpent in the desert. The ram caught in the
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  Speaker 1: thicket echoes the passover lamb. The blood on door frames
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt mirrors the sacrifice in the Garden's shadow. You're
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  Speaker 1: about to witness the Old Testament like never before, not
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  Speaker 1: as disconnected tales, but as one breathtaking narrative where every
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  Speaker 1: thread matters. Every detail points somewhere, and nothing happens by accident.
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  Speaker 1: Ready to see what you've been missing. In the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: there was nothing but darkness and emptiness. The earth had
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  Speaker 1: no form, no shape, no purpose. Deep waters covered everything,
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  Speaker 1: and the spirit of God moved across the surface of
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  Speaker 1: this dark void. Then something incredible happened. God spoke on
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  Speaker 1: the first day, as Genesis chapter one, verse three tells us,
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  Speaker 1: God said, let there be light, and light burst into existence.
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  Speaker 1: He saw that the light was good, so he separated
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  Speaker 1: it from the darkness. God called the light day, and
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  Speaker 1: the darkness he called night. Evening came, then morning. The
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  Speaker 1: first day was complete. The second day brought structure to
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  Speaker 1: the chaos. God spoke again, and a vast expanse appeared,
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  Speaker 1: dividing the waters. Some waters remained below, others were lifted above.
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  Speaker 1: God called this expanse sky. Evening passed, morning came the
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  Speaker 1: second day. On the third day, God gathered the waters
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  Speaker 1: below into one place, and dry ground appeared. He called
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  Speaker 1: the dry ground land and the gathered waters seas. But
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  Speaker 1: God wasn't finished with that day. He spoke again, commanding
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  Speaker 1: the land to produce vegetation, plants bearing seeds and trees
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  Speaker 1: bearing fruit with seeds inside them. The earth obeyed, bursting
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  Speaker 1: with green life. Everything reproduced according to its kind. Evening
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  Speaker 1: and morning marked the third day. The fourth day transformed
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  Speaker 1: the sky. God created two great lights as described in
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  Speaker 1: Genesis one sixteen, the greater light to God the day
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  Speaker 1: and the lesser light to govern the night. He also
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  Speaker 1: made the stars. These lights would serve as signs to
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  Speaker 1: mark seasons, days and years. The sun, moon, and stars
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  Speaker 1: took their positions in the expanse of the sky to
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  Speaker 1: give light on the earth. The fourth day ended On
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  Speaker 1: the fifth day. God filled the waters and the skies
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  Speaker 1: with life. He said in Genesis one twenty. Let the
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  Speaker 1: water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above
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  Speaker 1: the earth across the expanse of the sky. God created
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  Speaker 1: the great creatures of the sea and every living thing
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  Speaker 1: that moves in the waters, along with every winged bird,
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  Speaker 1: according to their kinds. He blessed them, telling them to
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  Speaker 1: be fruitful and multiply, to fill the waters in the seas,
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  Speaker 1: and let the birds increase on the earth. Evening came,
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  Speaker 1: then morning the fifth day. The sixth day was the
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  Speaker 1: most remarkable yet. God created the land animals, livestock, creatures
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  Speaker 1: that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according
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  Speaker 1: to its kind. Then God did something completely different. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: one twenty six records him saying, let us make man
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  Speaker 1: in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule
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  Speaker 1: over the fish of the sea and the birds of
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  Speaker 1: the air, over the live stalk, over all the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and over all the creatures that move along the ground.
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  Speaker 1: So God created man in his own image, in the
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  Speaker 1: image of God. He created him male and female. He
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  Speaker 1: created them. Genesis two seven gives us more detail about
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  Speaker 1: how this happened. The Lord God formed the man from
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  Speaker 1: the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils
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  Speaker 1: the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
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  Speaker 1: God blessed them and said to them in Genesis one
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight, be fruitful and increase in number, fill the
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  Speaker 1: earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the
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  Speaker 1: sea and the birds of the air, and over every
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  Speaker 1: living creature that moves on the ground. He gave them
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  Speaker 1: every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth,
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  Speaker 1: and every tree that has fruit with seed in it,
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  Speaker 1: for food to all the animals and birds. God gave
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  Speaker 1: every green plant for food. God looked at everything he
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  Speaker 1: had made, and it was very good. The sixth day closed.
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  Speaker 1: On the seventh day, God's work was complete. Genesis two
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  Speaker 1: two three says by the seventh day God had finished
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  Speaker 1: the work he had been doing, so on the seventh
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  Speaker 1: day he rested from all his work. And God blessed
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  Speaker 1: the seventh day and made it holy, because on it
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  Speaker 1: he rested from all the work of creating that he
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  Speaker 1: had done. After creating man, whom he named Adam, God
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  Speaker 1: planted a garden in the east, in a place called Eden.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't just any garden. It was a paradise designed
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  Speaker 1: specifically for humanity. Genesis two nine tells us that God
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  Speaker 1: made all kinds of trees grow there, trees that were
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  Speaker 1: pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the garden stood two special trees, the Tree
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  Speaker 1: of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of good
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  Speaker 1: and evil. A river watered the garden, and from there
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  Speaker 1: it separated into four head waters. The first was named Pishon,
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  Speaker 1: which wound through the entire land of Havilah, where gold
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  Speaker 1: could be found. Genesis two twelve notes that the gold
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  Speaker 1: of that land was good and aromatic resin and Onyx
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  Speaker 1: were also there. The second river was the Gihon, winding
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  Speaker 1: through the entire land of Cush, The third was the Tigris,
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  Speaker 1: running along the east side of Asher, and the fourth
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  Speaker 1: river was the Euphrates. God took the man and put
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  Speaker 1: him in the garden of Eden to work it and
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  Speaker 1: take care of it. This was meaningful work, tending to
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  Speaker 1: the perfect creation God had made. Then God gave Adam
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  Speaker 1: a command, as Genesis two sixteen to seventeen records, the
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  Speaker 1: Lord God commanded the man, you are free to eat
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  Speaker 1: from any tree in the garden, but you must not
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  Speaker 1: eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
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  Speaker 1: for when you eat of it, you will surely die.
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  Speaker 1: One boundary, one rule. Everything else was freely given, but
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  Speaker 1: this one tree was forbidden. The warning was clear eating
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  Speaker 1: from it would bring death. Then the Lord God said
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  Speaker 1: something important in Genesis two eighteen, it is not good
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  Speaker 1: for the man to be alone. I will make a
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  Speaker 1: helper suitable for him. So God formed out of the
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  Speaker 1: ground all the beasts of the field and all the
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  Speaker 1: birds of the air, and he brought them to the
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  Speaker 1: man to see what he would name them. Whatever the
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  Speaker 1: man called each living creature, that became its name. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: two twenty says the man gave names to all the
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  Speaker 1: live stock, the birds of the air, and all the
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  Speaker 1: beasts of the field. But for Adam himself, no suitable
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  Speaker 1: helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man
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  Speaker 1: to fall into a deep sleep. While he slept, God
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  Speaker 1: took one of the man's ribs and closed up the
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  Speaker 1: place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman
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  Speaker 1: from the rib he had taken out of the man,
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  Speaker 1: and he brought her to the man. When Adam saw her,
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  Speaker 1: he spoke the first recorded human words in Genesis two
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. This is now bone of my bones, and
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  Speaker 1: flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman, for
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  Speaker 1: she was taken out of man. Genesis two twenty four
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  Speaker 1: explains that this is why a man leaves his father
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  Speaker 1: and mother and is united to his wife, and they
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  Speaker 1: become one flesh. The man and his wife were both naked,
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  Speaker 1: and they felt no shame. Everything was perfect, innocent, and
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  Speaker 1: pure in the garden. There was nothing to hide, nothing
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  Speaker 1: to fear, and nothing broken between them or between them
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  Speaker 1: and God. Now the serpent was more crafty than any
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  Speaker 1: of the wild animals. The Lord God had made one day,
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  Speaker 1: this creature approached the woman with the question. Genesis three
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  Speaker 1: to one records the serpent asking her, did God really
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  Speaker 1: say you must not eat from any tree in the garden.
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  Speaker 1: The woman answered him, we may eat fruit from the
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  Speaker 1: trees in the garden. But God did say you must
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  Speaker 1: not eat fruit from the tree that is in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the garden, and you must not touch it,
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  Speaker 1: or you will die. She knew what God had commanded.
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  Speaker 1: She understood the boundary, but notice she added something God
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  Speaker 1: had said not to eat from it, but she included
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  Speaker 1: you must not touch it. Whether this was her own
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  Speaker 1: addition or something Adam had told her, it showed she
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  Speaker 1: knew the tree was off limits. But the serpent contradicted
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  Speaker 1: God's word directly. In Genesis three four to five, the
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  Speaker 1: serpent said to the woman, you will not surely die,
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  Speaker 1: for God knows that when you eat of it, your
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  Speaker 1: eyes will be opened, and you will be like God,
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  Speaker 1: knowing good and evil. These words planted something dangerous in
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  Speaker 1: the woman's mind. Mind. The serpent had twisted everything. He
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  Speaker 1: made God's warning sound like a lie. He made God's
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  Speaker 1: boundary sound like jealousy. He suggested that God was holding
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  Speaker 1: them back keeping something good from them, protecting his own
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  Speaker 1: position rather than protecting them. The serpent promised enlightenment, God
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  Speaker 1: likeness opened eyes. He made disobedience sound like wisdom and
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  Speaker 1: rebellions sound like growth. What was once simply off limits
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  Speaker 1: now appeared desirable. What was once a boundary of love
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  Speaker 1: now looked like a barrier to something better. The serpent's
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  Speaker 1: question had done its work, turning the woman's heart away
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  Speaker 1: from trust and toward doubt. The woman stood before the tree,
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  Speaker 1: and everything looked different now. Genesis three six describes what
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  Speaker 1: she saw. When the woman saw that the fruit of
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  Speaker 1: the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye,
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  Speaker 1: and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and
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  Speaker 1: ate it. Just like that, the boundary was crossed. But
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  Speaker 1: she didn't stop there. She also gave some to her husband,
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  Speaker 1: who was with her, and he ate it too. Adam
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  Speaker 1: didn't question it, He didn't remind her of God's command.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't refuse. He simply took the fruit and ate. Immediately,
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  Speaker 1: something changed. Genesis three seven says, then the eyes of
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  Speaker 1: both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked.
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  Speaker 1: So they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Their eyes were opened, just as the serpent had promised,
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  Speaker 1: but not in the way they had hoped. Instead of
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  Speaker 1: becoming like God, they suddenly realized they were vulnerable, exposed,
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  Speaker 1: and ashamed. Something inside them had broken. They grabbed fig leaves,
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  Speaker 1: sewed them together, and covered themselves. For the first time,
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  Speaker 1: they felt the need to hide. Then they heard the
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  Speaker 1: sound of the Lord God as he was walking in
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  Speaker 1: the garden in the cool of the day. Instead of
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  Speaker 1: running toward him as they once would have, the man
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  Speaker 1: and his wife hid from the Lord God among the
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  Speaker 1: trees of the garden. Fear had entered the human heart
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  Speaker 1: for the first time. The Lord God called to the man,
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  Speaker 1: where are you? Adam answered from his hiding place. In
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  Speaker 1: Genesis three ten, I heard you in the garden, and
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  Speaker 1: I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.
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  Speaker 1: God asked him, who told you that you were naked?
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  Speaker 1: Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you
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  Speaker 1: not to eat from? Adam immediately shifted the blame. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: three twelve records him saying, the woman you put here
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  Speaker 1: with me, she gave me some fruit from the tree,
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  Speaker 1: and I ate it. He pointed his finger at both
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  Speaker 1: the woman and ultimately at God himself forgiving her to him.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord God said to the woman, what is
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  Speaker 1: this you have done? She also deflected responsibility, saying in
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  Speaker 1: Genesis three thirteen, the serpent deceived me and I ate
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  Speaker 1: No one took full responsibility. The serpent blamed no one
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  Speaker 1: because God didn't even ask him. The woman blamed the serpent,
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  Speaker 1: the man blamed the woman, and God. The perfect fellowship
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  Speaker 1: between God and humanity had shattered in a single moment
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  Speaker 1: of disobedience. God addressed the serpent first, without even asking
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  Speaker 1: for an explanation. The Lord God said to the serpent
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  Speaker 1: in Genesis three fourteen fifteen, cursed are you above all
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  Speaker 1: the live stock and all the wild animals. You will
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  Speaker 1: crawl on your belly, and you will eat dust all
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  Speaker 1: the days of your life. And I will put enmity
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  Speaker 1: between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers.
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  Speaker 1: He will crush your head and you will strike his heel.
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  Speaker 1: This was both a curse and a promise. The serpent
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  Speaker 1: would be brought low, humiliated, crawling in the dust, but
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  Speaker 1: more importantly, one day, the woman's offspring would crush the
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  Speaker 1: serpent's head, a fatal blow. The serpent would strike his heel,
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  Speaker 1: a wound, but not a killing blow. This was the
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  Speaker 1: first hint of a future rescue. Then God turned to
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  Speaker 1: the woman. He said in Genesis three sixteen, I will
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  Speaker 1: greatly increase your pains in child bearing. With pain, you
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  Speaker 1: will give birth to children. Your desire will be for
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  Speaker 1: your husband, and he will rule over you. The beautiful
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  Speaker 1: gift of bringing new life into the world would now
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  Speaker 1: be accompanied by pain and struggle. The harmony between husband
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  Speaker 1: and wife would be disrupted by conflict and power struggles. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: God spoke to Adam. Genesis three seventeen nineteen records the
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  Speaker 1: weight of these words. Because you listened to your wife
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  Speaker 1: and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,
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  Speaker 1: you must not eat of it. Cursed is the ground
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  Speaker 1: because of you, through painful toil, you will eat of
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  Speaker 1: it all the days of your life. It will produce
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  Speaker 1: thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the
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  Speaker 1: plants of the field by the sweat of your brow.
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  Speaker 1: You will eat your food until you return to the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Since from it you were taken for dust you are,
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  Speaker 1: and to dust you will return. Work which had been
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  Speaker 1: joyful and fulfilling, would now involve frustration, exhaustion, and resistance.
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  Speaker 1: The ground itself, the very dirt from which Adam was made,
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  Speaker 1: had been cursed because of him. It would fight back
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  Speaker 1: with thorns and thistles, and death, which had only been
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  Speaker 1: a warning, was now humanity's certain future. Dust you are,
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  Speaker 1: and to dust you will return. Adam named his wife Eve,
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  Speaker 1: because she would become the mother of all the living.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord God made garments of skin for Adam
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  Speaker 1: and his wife and clothe them. This simple act required death,
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  Speaker 1: the first blood shed in the perfect world. An innocent
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  Speaker 1: animal died to cover their shame, and the Lord God
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  Speaker 1: said in Genesis three twenty two, the man has now
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  Speaker 1: become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He
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  Speaker 1: must not be allowed to reach out his hand and
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  Speaker 1: take also from the tree of life and eat and
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  Speaker 1: live forever. So the Lord God banished him from the
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  Speaker 1: garden of Eden to work the ground from which he
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  Speaker 1: had been taken. Genesis three twenty four says after he
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  Speaker 1: drove the man out, he placed on the east side
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  Speaker 1: of the garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword
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  Speaker 1: flashing back and forth, to guard the way to the
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  Speaker 1: Tree of life. Paradise was lost, the gates were closed,
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  Speaker 1: humanity would never return. Adam and Eve began their life
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  Speaker 1: outside the garden. Genesis for one tells us Adam lay
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  Speaker 1: with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave
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  Speaker 1: birth to Cain. She said, with the help of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I have brought forth a man. Later, she gave birth
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  Speaker 1: to his brother Abel. The boys grew up and chose
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  Speaker 1: different paths. Abel kept flocks. He was a shepherd. Cain
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  Speaker 1: worked the soil. He was a farmer, following in his
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  Speaker 1: father's footsteps. Time passed and the day came when both
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  Speaker 1: brothers brought offerings to the Lord. Genesis four three to
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  Speaker 1: four tells us what happened in the course of time.
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  Speaker 1: Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as
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  Speaker 1: an offering to the Lord, but Abel brought fat portions
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  Speaker 1: from some of the firstborn of his flock. Noticed the difference,
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  Speaker 1: Cain brought some of his fruits, but Abel brought the
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  Speaker 1: fat portions from the first born. Abel gave his best.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
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  Speaker 1: but on Cain and his offering, he did not look
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  Speaker 1: with favor. The text doesn't explain exactly why, But the
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  Speaker 1: result was clear. Cain was very angry and his face
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  Speaker 1: was downcast. Then the Lord said to Cain in Genesis
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  Speaker 1: four to six seven, why are you angry? Why is
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  Speaker 1: your face downcast? If you do what is right, will
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  Speaker 1: you not be accepted. But if you do not do
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  Speaker 1: what is right, sin is crouching at your door. It
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  Speaker 1: desires to have you, but you must master it. This
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  Speaker 1: was a clear warning and an invitation. God gave Cain
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  Speaker 1: a chance to choose differently, to master the anger and
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  Speaker 1: jealousy rising within him. God himself was speaking to Cain,
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  Speaker 1: offering him a way back, but Cain didn't listen. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: Genesis four eight says now Cain said to his brother Abel,
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  Speaker 1: let's go out to the field. And while they were
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  Speaker 1: in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
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  Speaker 1: The first human death was murder, brother killing brother. The
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  Speaker 1: son of Adams spilled the blood of his own flesh.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to Cain, where is your brother Abel?
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  Speaker 1: Cain replied with cold indifference. In Genesis four nine, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Am I my brother's keeper? The Lord said,
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  Speaker 1: what have you done? Listen? Your brother's blood cries out
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  Speaker 1: to me from the ground. Now you are under a
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  Speaker 1: curse and driven from the ground which opened its mouth
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  Speaker 1: to receive your brother's blood from your hand. When you
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  Speaker 1: work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops
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  Speaker 1: for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Bukane said to the Lord in Genesis four thirteen to fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: my punishment is more than I can bear. To day.
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  Speaker 1: You are driving me from the land, and I will
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  Speaker 1: be hidden from your presence. I will be a restless
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  Speaker 1: wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.
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  Speaker 1: But the Lord said to him in Genesis four fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: not so. If any one kills Cain, he will suffer
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  Speaker 1: vengeance seven times over. Then the Lord put a mark
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  Speaker 1: on Cain so that no one who found him would
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  Speaker 1: kill him. So Cain went out from the Lord's presence
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  Speaker 1: and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden,
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  Speaker 1: carrying his guilt and isolation with him. Time moved forward,
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  Speaker 1: and humanity began to multiply across the earth. Genesis four
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  Speaker 1: twenty five tells us Adam lay with his wife again,
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  Speaker 1: and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth,
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  Speaker 1: saying God has granted me another child in place of
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  Speaker 1: Abel since Cain killed him. Seth also had a son,
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  Speaker 1: and he named him Inosh. At that time, people began
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  Speaker 1: to call on the name of the Lord. Generations passed
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  Speaker 1: from Seth to Enosh, to Keenan to Mahalalel to Jared
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  Speaker 1: to Enoch. Something extraordinary happened with Enoch. Genesis five twenty
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  Speaker 1: one twenty four says when Enoch had lived sixty five years,
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  Speaker 1: he became the father of Methuselah. And after he became
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  Speaker 1: the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred
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  Speaker 1: year and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Enoch lived
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty five years. Enoch walked with God,
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  Speaker 1: then he was no more because God took him away.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't die like other men. God simply took him.
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  Speaker 1: Enoch's son, Methuselah, lived longer than any other human nine
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  Speaker 1: sixty nine years. According to Genesis five twenty seven, through
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  Speaker 1: Methuselah came Lamech, and through Lamech came Noah. Genesis five
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine records that Leamik named him Noah, saying he
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  Speaker 1: will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of
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  Speaker 1: our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.
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  Speaker 1: By this time, people had spread far and wide across
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  Speaker 1: the earth, but something dark was happening. Genesis six one
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  Speaker 1: to two records that when men began to increase in
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  Speaker 1: number on the earth and daughters were born to them,
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  Speaker 1: the sons of God saw that the daughters of men
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  Speaker 1: were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord said in Genesis six three, my spirit
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  Speaker 1: will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal.
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  Speaker 1: His days will be one hundred and twenty years. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: sixty four described something strange. The Nephelim were on the
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  Speaker 1: earth in those days and also afterward, when the sons
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  Speaker 1: of God went to the daughters of men and had
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  Speaker 1: children by them, They were the heroes of old men
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  Speaker 1: of renown. These Nephelim were giants, mighty warriors, famous throughout
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  Speaker 1: the ancient world. But their presence marked something wrong in creation,
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  Speaker 1: a further corruption of the order God had established. The
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  Speaker 1: earth was filling with people, but not in the way
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  Speaker 1: God had intended. As humanity spread and multiplied, something terrible happened.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis six five describes the state of the world. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become,
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  Speaker 1: and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart
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  Speaker 1: was only evil all the time. This wasn't just occasional
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  Speaker 1: sin or isolated bad choices. Every thought, every intention, every
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  Speaker 1: inclination of the human heart had become continuously evil. There
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  Speaker 1: was no break in it, no pause, no moment of goodness.
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  Speaker 1: The corruption was total and constant. Genesis six eleven twelve
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  Speaker 1: adds more detail. Now the earth was corrupt in God's
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  Speaker 1: sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt
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  Speaker 1: the earth had become, for all the people on earth
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  Speaker 1: had corrupted their ways. Violence filled the earth, corruption spread everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: The image of God in humanity had been twisted and
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  Speaker 1: distorted beyond recognition. The world God had called very good
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  Speaker 1: had become thoroughly broken. Then, Genesis six six tells us
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  Speaker 1: something heart breaking. The Lord was grieved that he had
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  Speaker 1: made man on the earth, and his heart was filled
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  Speaker 1: with pain. The Creator looked at his creation and felt
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  Speaker 1: deep sorrow. The same God who had breathed life into Adam,
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  Speaker 1: who had walked in the garden in the cool of
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  Speaker 1: the day, who had made everything with such care and delight,
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  Speaker 1: his heart was now filled with pain. So the Lord
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  Speaker 1: said in Genesis six seven, I will wipe mankind whom
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  Speaker 1: I have created from the face of the earth, men
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  Speaker 1: and animals and creatures that move along the ground, and
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  Speaker 1: birds of the air, for I am grieved that I
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  Speaker 1: have made them. The judgment was total, not just humanity,
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  Speaker 1: but the animals and birds too would be swept away.
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  Speaker 1: Creation itself would face the consequences of human rebellion. The
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  Speaker 1: wickedness had become so complete, so pervasive, that God determined
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  Speaker 1: to start over. But the text adds one crucial detail
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  Speaker 1: in Genesis six eight. But Noah found favor in the
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  Speaker 1: eyes of the Lord. In a world drowning in evil,
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  Speaker 1: one man stood out. One man was different. Genesis six
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  Speaker 1: nine says Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the
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  Speaker 1: people of his time, and he walked with God while
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  Speaker 1: everyone else ran from God. Noah walked with him while
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  Speaker 1: every one else pursued evil. Continually, Noah pursued righteousness. He
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  Speaker 1: wasn't perfect, but he was faithful, and because of that faithfulness,
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  Speaker 1: hope remained. God looked at Noah and gave him instructions
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  Speaker 1: that must have seemed impossible. Genesis six fourteen sixteen records
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  Speaker 1: God's command, So make yourself an ark of cypress wood,
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  Speaker 1: make rooms in it, and coat it with pitch inside
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  Speaker 1: and out. This is how you are to build it.
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  Speaker 1: The ark is to be four hundred and fifty feet long,
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  Speaker 1: seventy five feet wide, and forty five feet high. Make
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  Speaker 1: a roof for it, and finish the ark to within
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  Speaker 1: eighteen inches of the top. Put a door in the
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  Speaker 1: side of the ark, and make lower, middle, and upper decks.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't a small boat. This was a massive floating structure,
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  Speaker 1: three stories high, longer than a football field. The dimensions
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  Speaker 1: were precise and deliberate, designed for stability and capacity. Noah
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  Speaker 1: had probably never seen anything like it. No one had.
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  Speaker 1: There had never been a flood before, never been rain
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  Speaker 1: like what God was describing. The very concept would have
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  Speaker 1: sounded absurd to anyone who heard about it, But Noah
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  Speaker 1: didn't argue. He didn't ask why, he didn't demand proof.
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  Speaker 1: He simply started building. God explained what was coming. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: six seventeen says, I am going to bring flood waters
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  Speaker 1: on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens,
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  Speaker 1: every creature that has the breath of life. In it,
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  Speaker 1: everything on earth will perish. The judgment would be total
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  Speaker 1: and complete. But then God made a promise to Noah
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  Speaker 1: in Genesis six eighteen. But I will establish my covenant
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  Speaker 1: with you, and you will enter the Ark, you and
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  Speaker 1: your sons, and your wife and your son's wives with you.
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  Speaker 1: This was the first time the word covenant appears in
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  Speaker 1: the Bible. God was making a formal agreement with Noah,
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  Speaker 1: a binding promise that would preserve life through the coming destruction.
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  Speaker 1: God told Noah to bring into the Ark two of
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  Speaker 1: all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive
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  Speaker 1: with him. Genesis six twenty explains, two of every kind
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  Speaker 1: of bird, of every kind of animal, and of every
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  Speaker 1: kind of creature that moves along the ground will come
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  Speaker 1: to you to be kept alive. Notice they would come
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  Speaker 1: to him. Noah wouldn't have to hunt them down or
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  Speaker 1: capture them. They would simply arrive. Also, God instructed in
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  Speaker 1: Genesis six twenty one, you are to take every kind
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  Speaker 1: of food that is to be eaten and store it
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  Speaker 1: away as food for you, ann for them provisions for months,
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  Speaker 1: maybe even a year or more, food for his family
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  Speaker 1: and for every animal on the ark. Genesis six twenty
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  Speaker 1: two simply states Noah did everything just as God commanded him,
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  Speaker 1: no shortcuts, no modifications, no questioning, complete obedience. Then the
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  Speaker 1: Lord said to Noah in Genesis seven to one, go
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  Speaker 1: into the ark, you and your whole family, because I
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  Speaker 1: have found you righteous. In this generation. God had searched
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  Speaker 1: the entire earth and found only one household worth saving.
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  Speaker 1: God gave more specific instructions about the animals. He told
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  Speaker 1: Noah in Genesis seven two three, take with you seven
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  Speaker 1: pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and
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  Speaker 1: its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal,
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  Speaker 1: a male and its mate, And also seven pairs of
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  Speaker 1: every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their
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  Speaker 1: various kinds alone throughout the earth. Seven pairs of clean
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  Speaker 1: animals and birds, but only one pair of unclean animals.
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  Speaker 1: This distinction between clean and unclean existed even before the
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  Speaker 1: law was given to Moses. Centuries later. God set a deadline.
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  Speaker 1: He told Noah in Genesis seven four seven days from now,
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  Speaker 1: I will send rain on the earth for forty days
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  Speaker 1: and forty knights, and I will wipe from the face
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  Speaker 1: of the earth every living creature I have made seven
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  Speaker 1: days to finish all preparations seven days before the world
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  Speaker 1: would end. Genesis seven six nine says Noah was six
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  Speaker 1: hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and Noah and his sons, and his wife and his
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  Speaker 1: son's wives entered the Ark to escape the waters of
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  Speaker 1: the flood. Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds,
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  Speaker 1: and of all creatures that move along the ground, male
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  Speaker 1: and female came to Noah and entered the Ark as
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  Speaker 1: God had commanded Noah. Just as God had promised, the
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  Speaker 1: animals came. They walked, flew, and crawled to the Ark,
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  Speaker 1: drawn by divine direction. It must have been an incredible sight,
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  Speaker 1: a parade of creatures making their way to this enormous
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  Speaker 1: wooden vessel. For seven days, they loaded the ark, and then,
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  Speaker 1: as Genesis seven sixteen says, then the Lord shut him in,
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  Speaker 1: God himself closed the door. They were sealed inside, safe
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  Speaker 1: from what was coming. On the seventeenth day of the
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  Speaker 1: second month of Noah's six hundredth year, something unprecedented happened.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis seven eleven describes it. On that day, all the
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  Speaker 1: springs of the Great Deep burst forth, and the flood
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  Speaker 1: gates of the heavens were opened. Water came from above
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  Speaker 1: and below simultaneously. The sky opened up and the ground
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  Speaker 1: split open. Underground reservoirs exploded upward, while torrential rain poured
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  Speaker 1: down from above and Genesis seven twelve says, and rain
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  Speaker 1: fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. This
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a storm, This wasn't weather. This was the unmaking
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  Speaker 1: of creation itself. Remember how God had separated the waters
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  Speaker 1: above from the waters below on the second day of creation.
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  Speaker 1: Now those boundaries collapsed. The waters that had been held
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  Speaker 1: back were released with devastating force. Genesis seven seventeen twenty
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  Speaker 1: describes what happened next. For forty days, the flood kept
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  Speaker 1: coming on the Earth, and as the waters increased, they
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  Speaker 1: lifted the arc high above the earth. The waters rose
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  Speaker 1: and increased greatly on the Earth, and the ark floated
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  Speaker 1: on the surface of the water. They rose greatly on
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  Speaker 1: the Earth, and all the high mountains under the entire
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  Speaker 1: heavens were covered. The waters rose and covered the mountains
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  Speaker 1: to a depth of more than twenty feet. Every mountain
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  Speaker 1: on Earth covered, the highest peaks submerged under more than
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  Speaker 1: twenty feet of water. The entire world became an ocean.
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  Speaker 1: There was no high ground, no escape, nowhere to climb
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  Speaker 1: to safety. Everything was underwater. Genesis seven twenty one twenty
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  Speaker 1: three tells us the devastating result. Every living thing that
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  Speaker 1: moved on the earth perished, birds, live, stock, wild, animals,
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  Speaker 1: all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.
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  Speaker 1: Everything on dry land that had the breath of life
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  Speaker 1: in its nostrils died. Every living thing on the face
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  Speaker 1: of the earth was wiped out. Men and animals and
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  Speaker 1: the creatures that move along the ground, and the birds
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  Speaker 1: of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah
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  Speaker 1: was left and those with him in the Ark. The
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  Speaker 1: judgment was complete and total. The violence and corruption that
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  Speaker 1: had filled the earth were washed away. Every person who
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  Speaker 1: had ignored Noah's warnings was gone. Every giant, every warrior,
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  Speaker 1: every evil thought, all silenced. The world that had broken
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  Speaker 1: God's heart was gone. Only the Ark remained floating on
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  Speaker 1: the surface of the deep, with its precious cargo of
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  Speaker 1: life inside. Genesis seven twenty four adds one more crucial detail.
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  Speaker 1: The waters flooded the earth for one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: days forty days of rain, then one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: days of standing water covering everything. Five months where the
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  Speaker 1: Ark drifted on an endless ocean, with no land visible anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Inside that wooden vessel, Noah and his family cared for
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  Speaker 1: the animals day after day, week after week, month after month,
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  Speaker 1: trusting that God had not forgotten them, even though they
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  Speaker 1: could see nothing but water stretching to the horizon in
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  Speaker 1: every direction. But God had not forgotten Genesis eight one says,
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  Speaker 1: but God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and
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  Speaker 1: the live stock that were with him in the Ark,
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  Speaker 1: and he sent a wind over the earth, and the
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  Speaker 1: waters receded. Oh, the same God who had opened the
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  Speaker 1: floodgates now sent wind to begin drying the earth. The
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  Speaker 1: water that had destroyed the world now began to drain away.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis eight two three tells us now the springs of
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  Speaker 1: the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed,
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  Speaker 1: and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. The
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  Speaker 1: water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of
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  Speaker 1: the one hundred and fifty days, the water had gone down.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis eight four records a significant moment, and on the
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  Speaker 1: seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to
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  Speaker 1: rest on the mountains of Arrarat, exactly five months after
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: the flood began. The ark stopped floating. It had found
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  Speaker 1: solid ground. Somewhere beneath them was a mountain peak, though
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  Speaker 1: water still covered everything around them. Genesis eight five says
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  Speaker 1: the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and
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  Speaker 1: on the first day of the tenth month, the tops
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  Speaker 1: of the mountains became visible. Slowly, gradually the world was
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  Speaker 1: re emerging. Mountain peaks broke through the surface of the water,
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  Speaker 1: like islands appearing in an ocean. Noah waited patiently. After
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  Speaker 1: forty more days, he decided to test whether the water
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  Speaker 1: had receded enough for them to leave. Genesis eight six
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  Speaker 1: to seven describes what he did. After forty days, Noah
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  Speaker 1: opened the window he had made in the ark and
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  Speaker 1: sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and
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  Speaker 1: forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
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  Speaker 1: The raven was a strong bird, capable of flying long
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  Speaker 1: distances and surviving by scavenging. It could find floating debris
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  Speaker 1: or rest on exposed rocks. So it went out and
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  Speaker 1: returned out and returned. But this didn't tell Noah much
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  Speaker 1: about whether the ground below was truly ready for life
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  Speaker 1: to resume. So Genesis eight eight nine says then he
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  Speaker 1: sent out a dove to see if the water had
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  Speaker 1: receded from the surface of the ground. But the dove
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  Speaker 1: could find no place to set its feet because there
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  Speaker 1: was water over all the surface of the earth, So
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  Speaker 1: it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out
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  Speaker 1: his hand and took the dove and brought it back
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  Speaker 1: to himself in the ark. The dove was different from
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  Speaker 1: the raven. Doves need trees and dry ground where they
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  Speaker 1: can nest. They need places where plants grow and where
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  Speaker 1: they can find food. Finding neither. Finding nowhere safe to rest,
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  Speaker 1: the dove came back to the safety of the ark.
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  Speaker 1: This told Noah that the earth wasn't ready yet. He
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  Speaker 1: waited seven more days, then sent the dove out again.
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  Speaker 1: This time, something completely different happened. Genesis eight ten to
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  Speaker 1: eleven records the moment he waited seven more days and
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  Speaker 1: again sent out the dove from the ark. When the
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  Speaker 1: dove returned to him in the evening, there in its
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  Speaker 1: beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf. Then Noah knew
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  Speaker 1: that the water had receded from the earth an olive leaf,
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  Speaker 1: fresh and green. This small piece of vegetation was enormous news.
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  Speaker 1: It meant trees were alive again. Somewhere, plants were growing,
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  Speaker 1: leaves were sprouting. The earth was healing from the devastation.
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  Speaker 1: Life was returning to the world. Hope had a physical
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  Speaker 1: form carried in that dove's beak, but Noah was patient
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  Speaker 1: and didn't rush. He waited another seven days and sent
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  Speaker 1: the dove out a third time. Genesis eight twelve says
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  Speaker 1: he waited seven more days and sent the dove out again,
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  Speaker 1: but this time it did not return to him. The
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  Speaker 1: dove had found a permanent home outside the ark. It
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  Speaker 1: had found food, shelter, a place to build a nest
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  Speaker 1: and live. The earth was truly ready now. By the
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  Speaker 1: first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred
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  Speaker 1: and first year, the water had dried up from the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis eight thirteen tells us Noah then removed the covering
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  Speaker 1: from the ark and saw that the surface of the
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  Speaker 1: ground was dry. He could see with his own eyes
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  Speaker 1: now dry ground stretched out before him. After over a
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: year of seeing only water, but Noah still waited patiently
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  Speaker 1: for God's direct permission to leave. It wasn't until the
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventh day of the second month that the earth
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  Speaker 1: was completely dry. According to Genesis eight fourteen, they had
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  Speaker 1: been inside the ark for one full year and ten days,
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  Speaker 1: over a year of caring for animals, living in extremely
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  Speaker 1: close quarters with family, maintaining the vessel, and trusting in
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  Speaker 1: God's perfect timing. Then God spoke to Noah with clear instructions.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis eight fifteen ze seventeen records his words. Then God
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  Speaker 1: said to Noah, come out of the ark. You and
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  Speaker 1: your wife, and your sons and their wives. Bring out
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  Speaker 1: every kind of living creature that is with you, the birds,
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  Speaker 1: the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground,
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  Speaker 1: so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful
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  Speaker 1: and increase in number upon it. The weight was finally over,
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  Speaker 1: so Genesis eight eighteen nineteen says, so Noah came out,
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  Speaker 1: together with his sons, and his wife and his son's wives,
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  Speaker 1: all the animals, and all the creatures that move along
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  Speaker 1: the ground, and all the birds, everything that moves on
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  Speaker 1: the earth came out of the ark, one kind after another.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: They stepped out onto a clean, empty, washed earth. Everything
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  Speaker 1: was new, everything was fresh, The world had been cleansed,
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  Speaker 1: and they were the only humans alive on the entire planet.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing Noah after emerging was worship. Genesis eight
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  Speaker 1: twenty says, then Noah built an altar to the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and taking some of all the clean animals in clean birds,
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  Speaker 1: he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. This explains why God
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  Speaker 1: had commanded seven pairs of clean animals so there would
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  Speaker 1: be enough for sacrifice and worship while still having enough
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  Speaker 1: to reproduce and repopulate. Noah's very first act in the
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  Speaker 1: new world wasn't to build a house or plant crops,
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  Speaker 1: but to give thanks to the God who had saved
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  Speaker 1: him and his family. The smell of the sacrifice rose
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: up to heaven, and Genesis eight twenty one tells us
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  Speaker 1: something remarkable. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said,
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  Speaker 1: in his heart, never again will I curse the ground
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  Speaker 1: because of man, even though every inclination of his heart
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: all living creatures as I have done. This was a
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  Speaker 1: stunning acknowledgment. God stated clearly that the flood hadn't changed
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: fundamental human nature. The heart of man was still bent
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: toward evil from childhood. The same wickedness and corruption that
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: had led to the flood in the first place was
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: still present deep in human hearts. But God made a
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: decision based not on human goodness or improvement, but purely
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: on his own grace and mercy. He would never again
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: destroy all life with a flood, regardless of how evil
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: humanity became. Genesis eight twenty two records his promise about
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  Speaker 1: the natural order. As long as the earth endures seed
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day
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  Speaker 1: and night will never cease. The rhythm of creation would
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  Speaker 1: continue uninterrupted. The seasons would keep cycling, life would go on.
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  Speaker 1: Then God blessed Noah and his sons with the same
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  Speaker 1: command given to Adam. Genesis nine one says, then God
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  Speaker 1: blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them be fruitful
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  Speaker 1: and increase in number and fill the earth. Humanity had
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  Speaker 1: a fresh start, a clean slate, a second chance to
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  Speaker 1: fill the earth and live according to God's design. Then
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  Speaker 1: God established a formal covenant with Noah and his descendants.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis nine nine to eleven records this covenant. I now
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  Speaker 1: establish my covenant with you, and with your descendants after you,
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  Speaker 1: and with every living creature that was with you, the birds,
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  Speaker 1: the live stock, and all the wild animals, all those
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  Speaker 1: that came out of the ark with you, every living
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  Speaker 1: creature on Earth. I establish my covenant with you. Never
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  Speaker 1: again will all life be cut off by the waters
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  Speaker 1: of a flood. Never again will there be a flood
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  Speaker 1: to destroy the earth. But God didn't just speak this
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  Speaker 1: promise into the air. He gave a visible, lasting sign
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  Speaker 1: that everyone could see. Genesis nine twelve to thirteen says
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  Speaker 1: and God said, this is the sign of the covenant
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  Speaker 1: I am making between me and you, and every living
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  Speaker 1: creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come.
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  Speaker 1: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it
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  Speaker 1: will be the sign of the covenant between me and
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  Speaker 1: the Earth. Genesis nine fourteen sixteen continues with more detail.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever I bring clouds over the Earth and the rainbow
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  Speaker 1: appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between
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  Speaker 1: me and you and all living creatures of every kind.
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  Speaker 1: Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy
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  Speaker 1: all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I
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  Speaker 1: will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God
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  Speaker 1: and all living creatures of every kind on the Earth.
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  Speaker 1: The rainbow became a permanent reminder, not just for humanity
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  Speaker 1: to see and remember, but remarkably for God himself to
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  Speaker 1: see and remember his promise. Every time rain clouds gathered
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  Speaker 1: and people might fear another worldwide flood, the rainbow would
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  Speaker 1: appear in the sky as God's signature, his absolute guarantee
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  Speaker 1: that the waters would never again rise to destroy all
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  Speaker 1: life on Earth. Noah and his three sons began the
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  Speaker 1: work of repopulating the earth. Genesis nine eighteen nineteen tells
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  Speaker 1: us the sons of Noah who came out of the
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  Speaker 1: ark were shem Ham and Japhath. Ham was the father
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  Speaker 1: of Canaan. These were the three sons of Noah, and
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  Speaker 1: from them came the people who were scattered over the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Every single person alive today, every nation, every tribe, every
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  Speaker 1: family descended from these three men, shem Ham and Japhath.
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  Speaker 1: All of humanity traces back to Noah's sons. Noah transitioned
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  Speaker 1: from ark builder to farmer. Genesis nine twenty says Noah
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  Speaker 1: of the soil proceeded to plant a vineyard. He worked
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  Speaker 1: the ground cultivated grape vines, and eventually the vineyard produced fruit.
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  Speaker 1: Time passed, perhaps several years, and Noah made wine from
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  Speaker 1: his grapes. But one day something went terribly wrong. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: nine twenty one records the incident. When he drank some
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  Speaker 1: of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside
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  Speaker 1: his tent. Noah, the righteous man who had walked faithfully
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  Speaker 1: with God, who had built the ark and saved humanity,
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  Speaker 1: now lay drunk and naked in his tent. It was
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  Speaker 1: a moment of weakness, vulnerability, and deep shame. Even the
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  Speaker 1: greatest heroes of faith had their failures and moments of stumbling. Then,
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  Speaker 1: Genesis nine twenty two tells us what happened next. Ham,
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  Speaker 1: the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told
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  Speaker 1: his two brothers outside. Ham entered the tent, saw his
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  Speaker 1: father lying there in this shameful, exposed condition, and instead
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  Speaker 1: of immediately and quietly covering his father, he went outside
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  Speaker 1: and told his brothers about what he had seen. The
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  Speaker 1: text suggests more than an accidental glimpse, there was something
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  Speaker 1: dishonorable in Ham's response, something that showed mockery or disrespect
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  Speaker 1: for his father's dignity and position. But Shem and Jayfith
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  Speaker 1: responded in a completely different manner. Genesis nine twenty three
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  Speaker 1: carefully describes their honorable actions. But Shem and Jayfith took
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  Speaker 1: a garment and laid it across their shoulders. Then they
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  Speaker 1: walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces
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  Speaker 1: were turned the other way so that they would not
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  Speaker 1: see their father's nakedness. They deliberately protected their father's dignity
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  Speaker 1: and honor. They covered his shame without looking at what
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  Speaker 1: they shouldn't see. They walked backward into the tent so
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  Speaker 1: their eyes would never fall on their father's nakedness. They
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  Speaker 1: honored him even in his weakest, most vulnerable moment. This
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  Speaker 1: was true respect, genuine honor, and love demonstrated through action.
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  Speaker 1: When Noah eventually woke up from his wine and somehow
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  Speaker 1: found out what his youngest son had done to him,
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  Speaker 1: he spoke with prophetic authority. Genesis nine twenty four to
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven records his powerful words. When Noah awoke from
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  Speaker 1: his wine and found out what his youngest son had
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  Speaker 1: done to him, he said, cursed be Canaan, the lowest
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  Speaker 1: of slaves will he be to his brothers. He also said,
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  Speaker 1: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem. May Canaan
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  Speaker 1: be the slave of Shem. May God extend the territory
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  Speaker 1: of Japhath, May Jafith live in the tents of Shem,
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  Speaker 1: and may Canaan be his slave. Notice something important, Noah
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  Speaker 1: didn't curse Ham directly, but instead cursed Canaan, who was
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  Speaker 1: Ham's son. This curse would echo and reverberate through history,
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  Speaker 1: affecting the descendants of Canaan, who would become the Canaanites,
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  Speaker 1: and their future relationship with the descendants of Shem and Jayfth.
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  Speaker 1: The blessing on Shem indicated that God would be specially
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  Speaker 1: and uniquely connected to Shem's family line. The Blessing on
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  Speaker 1: Jaypath spoke of expansion and a harmonious relationship with Shem's descendants.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis nine twenty eight to twenty nine concludes Noah's story.
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  Speaker 1: After the flood, Noah lived three hundred and fifty years. Altogether,
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  Speaker 1: Noah lived nine hundred and fifty years and then he died.
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  Speaker 1: Noah lived long enough to see multiple generations multiply and
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  Speaker 1: spread after the flood. He watched the world slowly repopulate.
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  Speaker 1: Then he died, having faithfully served God through the greatest
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  Speaker 1: catastrophe in all of human history. As people multiplied and
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  Speaker 1: spread across the earth after the flood, they all spoke
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  Speaker 1: one language and used the same word words. According to
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  Speaker 1: Genesis eleven are I, this complete unity of language meant
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  Speaker 1: they could communicate perfectly with each other, cooperate fully on
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  Speaker 1: any project, and accomplish anything they collectively set their minds
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  Speaker 1: to achieve. There were no misunderstandings, no translation difficulties, no
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  Speaker 1: communication barriers whatsoever. Genesis eleven two tells us what happened
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  Speaker 1: as they migrated. As men moved eastward, they found a
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  Speaker 1: plane in Shinar and settled there. Shinar was located in Mesopotamia,
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  Speaker 1: the fertile region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Instead
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  Speaker 1: of continuing to spread out across the world and fill
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  Speaker 1: the earth, as God had clearly commanded both Adam and Noah,
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  Speaker 1: they made a deliberate decision to stop. They found a comfortable, flat,
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  Speaker 1: fertile place and decided to stay together in one location.
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  Speaker 1: They developed impressive new technology for their time. Genesis even
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  Speaker 1: three records their innovative conversation. They said to each other. Come,
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  Speaker 1: let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They used brick
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  Speaker 1: instead of stone and tar for mortar. Leju. This was
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  Speaker 1: genuine innovation. They were manufacturing uniform, standardized building materials rather
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  Speaker 1: than simply using irregular stones they found scattered in nature.
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  Speaker 1: With these baked bricks, they could build much bigger, taller,
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  Speaker 1: and stronger structures than ever before. With tar bubbling up
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  Speaker 1: from the ground serving as waterproof mortar, they could seal
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  Speaker 1: everything tight and secure. Then they announced their ambitious plan
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  Speaker 1: to each other. Genesis eleven four says, then they said, come,
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  Speaker 1: let us build ourselves a city with a tower that
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  Speaker 1: reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a
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  Speaker 1: name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face
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  Speaker 1: of the whole earth. Listen carefully to their stated motor evations. First,
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to build both a city and a tower
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  Speaker 1: reaching up to the heavens. This tower would be a ziggurat,
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  Speaker 1: a massive stepped pyramid with a temple at the very top. Second,
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  Speaker 1: they explicitly wanted to make a name for themselves to
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  Speaker 1: become famous, to be remembered throughout history, to demonstrate their power. Third,
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  Speaker 1: they clearly stated they were doing all of this specifically
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  Speaker 1: to avoid being scattered across the face of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: But God had directly commanded humanity to fill the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and these people were united in their rebellion against that command.
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  Speaker 1: The people worked together on their city and tower, and
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  Speaker 1: the construction progressed steadily. But Genesis eleven five says, but
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  Speaker 1: the Lord came down to see the city and the
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  Speaker 1: tower that the men were building. The irony is clear.
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  Speaker 1: They were building to reach heaven. Yet God had to
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: come down just to see it. Genesis eleven six records
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  Speaker 1: God's assessment. The Lord said, if as one people speaking
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  Speaker 1: the same language they have begun to do this, then
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  Speaker 1: nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
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  Speaker 1: United humanity had unlimited potential, but they were using it
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  Speaker 1: in the wrong direction. So God intervened. Genesis eleven seven says, come,
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  Speaker 1: let us go down and confuse their language so they
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  Speaker 1: will not understand each other. Genesis eleven eight tells us
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  Speaker 1: the immediate result. So the Lord scattered them from there
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  Speaker 1: over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
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  Speaker 1: One moment they communicated perfectly, the next they couldn't understand
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  Speaker 1: each other. The work stopped instantly, Genesis eleven nine explains
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  Speaker 1: that is why it was called Babel, because there the
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  Speaker 1: Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there
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  Speaker 1: the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
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  Speaker 1: The very thing they tried to prevent being scattered happened
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  Speaker 1: anyway as divine judgment. After Babel, the Bible narrows its
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  Speaker 1: focus to one family line. Genesis eleven ten begins this
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  Speaker 1: is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood,
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  Speaker 1: when Shem was one hundred years old, he became the
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  Speaker 1: father of Arfaxad. Genesis eleven twelve to thirteen continues. When
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  Speaker 1: Alfaxad had lived thirty five years, he became the father
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  Speaker 1: of Shala, and after he became the father of Sheila.
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  Speaker 1: Alfaxad lived four hundred three years and had other sons
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  Speaker 1: and daughters. The life spans were decreasing. Shala lived four
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three years, Eber lived four hundred and
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  Speaker 1: sixty four years, but then Pelig lived only two hundred
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine years. According to Genesis eleven fourteen nineteen, the
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  Speaker 1: line continued through Roy, who lived two hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine years, Serug who lived two hundred and thirty years,
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  Speaker 1: and Nahor, who lived one hundred and forty eight years,
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  Speaker 1: as Recu ordered in Genesis eleven twenty twenty five. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: eleven twenty six says after Tera had lived seventy years,
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  Speaker 1: he became the father of Abramnahor, and Haran. But Genesis
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  Speaker 1: eleven twenty eight tells us while his father Terra was
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  Speaker 1: still alive, Haran died in Er of the Chaldeans, in
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  Speaker 1: the land of his birth. Genesis eleven twenty nine to
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  Speaker 1: thirty provides crucial information. Abram and Nehor both married. The
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  Speaker 1: name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of
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  Speaker 1: Nahor's wife was Milka. She was the daughter of Haran,
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  Speaker 1: the father of both Milka and Iska. Now SARRAI was Baron.
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  Speaker 1: She had no children, who Abram's wife couldn't have children,
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  Speaker 1: a tragedy in that culture. Genesis eleven thirty one tells
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  Speaker 1: us Terra took his son Abram, his grandson lot son
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  Speaker 1: of Haran, and his daughter in law Sarai, the wife
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  Speaker 1: of his son Abram, and together they set out from
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  Speaker 1: Erl of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when
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  Speaker 1: they came to Haran, they settled there they left ur
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  Speaker 1: heading toward Canaan, but stopped half way. Genesis eleven thirty
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  Speaker 1: two concludes Terra lived two hundred and five years and
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  Speaker 1: he died in Haran. The old man died without reaching Canaan,
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  Speaker 1: but Abram remained married to a barren woman living in
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  Speaker 1: a foreign city. No one could have guessed God was
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  Speaker 1: about to call this childless man and make him the
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  Speaker 1: father of nations. The Lord spoke to Abram while he
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  Speaker 1: was still living in Haran. Genesis twelve one two three
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  Speaker 1: records God's call. The Lord had said to Abram, leave
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  Speaker 1: your country, your people, and your father's household, and go
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  Speaker 1: to the land I will show you. I will make
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  Speaker 1: you into a great nation, and I will bless you.
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  Speaker 1: I will make your name great, and you will be
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and
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  Speaker 1: whoever curses you, I will curse, and all peoples on
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  Speaker 1: earth will be blessed through you. This was an enormous ask.
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  Speaker 1: God was telling Abram to leave everything familiar, his homeland,
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  Speaker 1: his extended family, his father's house, and go to a
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  Speaker 1: place God hadn't even named yet, and the promise seemed impossible.
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  Speaker 1: How could God make him into a great nation when
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  Speaker 1: his wife Sarai was barren. But Genesis twelve four says,
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  Speaker 1: so Abram left as the Lord had told him, and
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  Speaker 1: Lot went with him. Abram was seventy five years old
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  Speaker 1: when he set out from Haran. Seventy five years old.
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  Speaker 1: Most people that age would be settling down, not starting over,
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  Speaker 1: but Abram obeyed. Genesis twelve five continues he took his
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  Speaker 1: wife Sarahi, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had
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  Speaker 1: accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: they set out for the land of Canaan. And they
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  Speaker 1: arrived there. When they reached Canaan, Abram tried tveled through
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  Speaker 1: the land. Genesis twelve six to seven tells us Abram
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  Speaker 1: traveled through the land as far as the sight of
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  Speaker 1: the Great Tree of Morey at Sheekem. At that time,
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  Speaker 1: the Canaanites were in the land. The Lord appeared to
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  Speaker 1: Abram and said, to your offspring, I will give this land.
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  Speaker 1: So he built an altar there to the Lord who
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  Speaker 1: had appeared to him. Notice what God promised, not to
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  Speaker 1: Abram himself, but to his offspring. His children would possess
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  Speaker 1: this land but Abram still had no children. Then famine struck.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: Genesis twelve ten says, now there was a famine in
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: there for a while. Because the famine was severe in Egypt,
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: Abram made a terrible decision out of fear. He told
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  Speaker 1: Sir RAI to say she was his sister because she
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  Speaker 1: was so beautiful. He feared the Egyptians would kill him
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: to take her. Genesis twelve fifteen records what happened, and
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  Speaker 1: when Pharaoh's officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: and she was taken into his palace. But God intervened.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis twelve seventeen says, but the Lord inflicted serious diseases
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  Speaker 1: on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram's wife, Sarah.
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh figured it out and confronted Abram. Genesis twelve eighteen
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  Speaker 1: to nineteen records his words. So Pharaoh summoned Abram, What
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  Speaker 1: have you done to me? He said, why didn't you
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  Speaker 1: tell me she was your wife? Why did you say
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  Speaker 1: she is my sister so that I took her to
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  Speaker 1: be my wife. Now, then here is your wife, Take
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  Speaker 1: her and go. Pharaoh sent them away with all their possessions.
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  Speaker 1: Abram returned to Canaan, now very wealthy, but he and
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  Speaker 1: Lot had so many possessions that the land couldn't support
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  Speaker 1: both their herds. Genesis thirteen seven says, and quarreling arose
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  Speaker 1: between Abram's herdsman and the herdsman of Lot, so they separated.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: Abram let Lot choose first. Genesis thirteen ten eleven tells
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  Speaker 1: us Lot looked up and saw that the whole plain
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  Speaker 1: of the Jordan was well watered, like the garden of
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: the Lord, like the land of Egypt towards Zar. This
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  Speaker 1: was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. So Lot
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  Speaker 1: chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: set out toward the east. After Lot left, God spoke
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: to Abram again with an expanded promise. Genesis thirteen fourteen
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  Speaker 1: seventeen records God's words. The Lord said to Abram, after
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: Lot had parted from him, lift up your eyes from
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: where you are, and look north and south, east and west.
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  Speaker 1: All the land that you see I will give to
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  Speaker 1: you and your offspring forever. I will make your offspring
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  Speaker 1: like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.
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  Speaker 1: Go walk through the length and breadth of the land,
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  Speaker 1: for I am giving it to you. Time passed and
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  Speaker 1: Abram still had no children. Then God came to him
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  Speaker 1: in a vision. Genesis fifteen one says after this, the
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: very great reward. But Abram was troubled. Genesis fifteen two
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: three records his honest response. But Abram said, O, Sovereign Lord,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: what can you give me? Since I remain childless, and
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: And Abram said, you have given me no children, so
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  Speaker 1: a servant in my household will be my heir. God
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: reassured him. Genesis fifteen four five says, then the word
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: of the Lord came to him. This man will not
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: be your heir, but a son coming from your own
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: body will be your heir. He took him outside and said,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: look up at the heavens and count the stars. If
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: indeed you can count them, he said to him, so
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  Speaker 1: shall your offspring be. Genesis fifteen six records Abram's response
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  Speaker 1: Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: as righteousness. Then God made a formal covenant. He told
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: Abram to bring specific animals, a heifer, a goat, a ram,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: a dove, and a pigeon. Genesis fifteen ten says Abram
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  Speaker 1: brought all these to him, cut them in two, and
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: arrange the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: did not cut in half. As the sun was setting,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: Genesis fifteen twelve tells us Abram fell into a deep sleep,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. God
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: warned that Abram's descendants would be enslaved for four hundred
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: years in a foreign country, but then would come out
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: with great possessions. Then came the covenant ceremony. Genesis fifteen
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  Speaker 1: seventeen to eighteen describes it. When the sun had set
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: and darkness had fallen, a smoking fire with a blazing
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: torch appeared and passed between the pieces. On that day,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, to
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: your descendants, I give this land from the river of
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: Egypt to the great river the Euphrates. Only God passed
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: through the pieces. Abram didn't God was binding himself alone
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: to keep this promise. Ten years had passed since Abram
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: came to Canaan, and Sarai still had no children, So
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: she came up with a plan. Genesis sixteen one to
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: two records what she said. Now, Sarai, Abram's wife had
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maid
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: servant named Hagar. So she said to Abram, the Lord
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: has kept me from having children, Go sleep with my
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: maid servant. Perhaps I can build a family through her.
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  Speaker 1: This was a common cultural practice, but it wasn't God's plan.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis Sis sixteen two says Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
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  Speaker 1: So Sarai gave Hagar to Abram as a wife, and
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  Speaker 1: he slept with her. Genesis sixteen four tells us what happened.
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  Speaker 1: He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew
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  Speaker 1: she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. The
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  Speaker 1: household dynamics immediately became toxic. Sarai blamed Abram. Genesis sixteen
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  Speaker 1: five records her complaint. Then, Sarai said, to Abram, you
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  Speaker 1: are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put
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  Speaker 1: my servant in your arms, and now that she knows
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  Speaker 1: she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge
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  Speaker 1: between you and me. Abram told her in Genesis sixteen six,
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  Speaker 1: your servant is in your hands. Do with her whatever
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  Speaker 1: you think best. So Sarah mistreated Hagar, and Hagar fled
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  Speaker 1: into the desert. But God found Hagar. Genesis six xteen
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  Speaker 1: seven to eight says the Angel of the Lord found
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  Speaker 1: Hagar near a spring in the desert. It was the
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  Speaker 1: spring that is beside the road to shore. And he said, Hagar,
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  Speaker 1: servant of SARAHI where have you come from? And where
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  Speaker 1: are you going? I'm running away from my mistress Sarah.
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  Speaker 1: She answered, The angel gave her instructions. Genesis sixteen nine
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  Speaker 1: eleven records his words. Then the Angel of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: told her, go back to your mistress and submit to her.
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  Speaker 1: The angel added, I will so increase your descendants that
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  Speaker 1: they will be too numerous to count. The Angel of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord also said to her, you are now with child,
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  Speaker 1: and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael,
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  Speaker 1: for the Lord has heard of your misery. Genesis sixteen
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  Speaker 1: twelve described what Ishmael would be like. He will be
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  Speaker 1: a wild donkey of a man. His hand will be
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  Speaker 1: against everyone, and every one's hand against him, and he
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  Speaker 1: will live in ho hostility toward all his brothers. Hagar
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  Speaker 1: was amazed that God had seen her. She went back
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  Speaker 1: to Sarai. Genesis sixteen fifteen sixteen concludes, so Hagar bore
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  Speaker 1: Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to
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  Speaker 1: the son she had borne. Abram was eighty six years
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  Speaker 1: old when Hagar bore him Ishmael, but Ishmael was not
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  Speaker 1: the promised son. Thirteen years pasted, Abram was now ninety
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  Speaker 1: nine and Ishmael was thirteen. Then God appeared to Abram again.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis seventeen one to two records when Abram was ninety
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  Speaker 1: nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said,
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  Speaker 1: I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.
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  Speaker 1: I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and
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  Speaker 1: will greatly increase your numbers. God changed his name. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: seventeen forty five says, as for me, this is my
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  Speaker 1: covenant with you. You will be the father of many nations.
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  Speaker 1: No longer will you be called Abram. Your name will
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  Speaker 1: be Abraham, for I have made you a father of
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  Speaker 1: many nations. God also changed Sarai's name. Genesis seventeen fifteen
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  Speaker 1: sixteen says God also said to Abraham, as for Sarah,
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  Speaker 1: your wife, you are no longer to call her SARAHI,
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  Speaker 1: her name will be Sarah. I will bless her and
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  Speaker 1: will surely give you a son by her. I will
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  Speaker 1: bless her so that she will be the mother of nations.
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  Speaker 1: Kings of peoples will come from her. Abraham's response was remarkable.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis seventeen at seventeen tells us Abraham fell face down.
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  Speaker 1: He laughed and said to himself, will a son be
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  Speaker 1: born to a man one hundred years old? Will Sarah
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  Speaker 1: bear a child at the age of ninety? But God
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  Speaker 1: was clear. Genesis seventeen nineteen records his response. Then God said, yes,
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  Speaker 1: but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and
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  Speaker 1: you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant
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  Speaker 1: with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. Later,
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  Speaker 1: God appeared to Abraham with two angels in human form.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis eighteen one to two says the Lord appeared to
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  Speaker 1: Abraham near the great trees of Mumray while he was
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  Speaker 1: sitting at the entrance to his tent. In the heat
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  Speaker 1: of the day, Abraham looked up and saw three men
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  Speaker 1: standing nearby. Abraham prepared a meal for them. As they ate,
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  Speaker 1: one asked where Sarah was. Then Genesis eighteen ten records
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  Speaker 1: what he said. Then the Lord said, I will surely
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  Speaker 1: return to you about this time next year, and Sarah,
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  Speaker 1: your wife, will have a son. Sarah was listening behind him.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis eighteen eleven to twelve tells us Abraham and Sarah
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  Speaker 1: were already old and well advanced in years, and Sarah
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  Speaker 1: was past the age of childbearing. So Sarah laughed to
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  Speaker 1: herself as she thought, after I am worn out and
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  Speaker 1: my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?
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  Speaker 1: She laughed, just like Abraham had. But God heard her.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis eighteen thirteen fourteen records then the Lord said to Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: why did Sarah laugh and say? Will I really have
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  Speaker 1: a child now that I am old? Is anything too
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  Speaker 1: hard for the Lord? I will return to you at
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.
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  Speaker 1: Sarah denied laughing, but Genesis eighteen fifteen says, but he said, yes,
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  Speaker 1: you did laugh. God knew the truth and would keep
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  Speaker 1: his promise. After the meal, the visitors looked towards Sodom,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: where Lot lived. God decided to tell Abraham what he
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  Speaker 1: planned to do. Genesis eighteen twenty twenty one records God's words.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: Then the Lord said, the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: is so great and their sin so grievous, that I
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: will go down and see if what they have done
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: is as bad as the outcry that has reached me.
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  Speaker 1: If not, I will know. Abraham began to negotiate with
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  Speaker 1: God for the cities. Genesis eighteen twenty three to twenty
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  Speaker 1: four says Then Abraham approached him and said, will you
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  Speaker 1: sweep away the righteous with the wicked? What if there
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: are fifty righteous people in the city, will you really
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  Speaker 1: sweep it away and not spare the place for the
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: sake of the fifty righteous people in it. God agreed
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: to spare the city if fifty righteous people were found.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: Abraham kept lowering the number forty five, forty thirty twenty. Finally,
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: Genesis eighteen thirty two records Abraham's last request. Then he said,
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  Speaker 1: may the Lord not be angry, but let me speak
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  Speaker 1: just once more. What if only ten can be found there?
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  Speaker 1: He answered, for the sake of ten, I will not
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  Speaker 1: destroy it. God agreed, then left, But there weren't even
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  Speaker 1: ten righteous people in Sodom. The two angels arrived in Sodom,
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  Speaker 1: and Lot invited them to his house. But Genesis nineteen
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  Speaker 1: forty five says before they had gone to bed, all
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  Speaker 1: the men from every part of the city of Sodom,
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  Speaker 1: both young and old, surrounded the house. They called to Lot,
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  Speaker 1: where are the men who came to you to night?
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  Speaker 1: Bring them out to us so that we can have
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: sex with them. The wickedness was complete. The angels struck
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: the men with blindness and told Lot to flee. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: nineteen thirteen records their warning, we are going to destroy
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  Speaker 1: this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: At dawn, the angels urged Lot to hurry. Genesis nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifteen sixteen says with the coming of dawn, the angels
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  Speaker 1: urged Lot, saying, hurry, take your wife and your two
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  Speaker 1: daughters who are here, or you will be swept away
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: when the city is punished. When he hesitated, the men
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  Speaker 1: grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and
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  Speaker 1: of his two daughters, and led them safely out of
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: the city, for the Lord was merciful to them. One
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  Speaker 1: of them said, in Genesis nineteen seventeen, flee for your lives.
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  Speaker 1: Don't look back, and don't stop anywhere in the plain.
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  Speaker 1: Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: Then came judgment. Genesis nineteen twenty four to twenty five
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  Speaker 1: describes it. Then the Lord reined down, burning sulfur on
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: Sodom and Gomorrah from the Lord out of the heavens.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including
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  Speaker 1: all those living in the cities, and also the vegetation
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: in the land. But Lot's wife disobeyed. Genesis nineteen twenty
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  Speaker 1: six says, but Lot's wife looked back, and she became
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  Speaker 1: a pillar of salt. Genesis nineteen twenty nine adds an
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  Speaker 1: important note. So when God destroyed the cities of the Plain,
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  Speaker 1: he remembered Abraham, and he brought Low out of the
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  Speaker 1: catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived. God
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  Speaker 1: saved Lot because of Abraham. The impossible happened. Genesis twenty
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  Speaker 1: one point one two records the fulfillment. Now, the Lord
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  Speaker 1: was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became
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  Speaker 1: pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: at the very time God had promised him. Abraham was
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: one hundred years old when Isaac was born. Genesis twenty
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  Speaker 1: one to six record Sarah's joy. Sarah said, God has
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  Speaker 1: brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: laugh with me. The child grew, but problems arose with Ishmael.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: Sarah demanded Abraham send Hagar and Ishmael away. God told
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: Abraham to listen to Sarah because the covenant would continue
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  Speaker 1: through Isaac. Then came Abraham's greatest test. Genesis twenty two
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  Speaker 1: one to two two records what God asked. Some time later,
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  Speaker 1: God tested Abraham, He said to him, Abraham, here I am,
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: he replied. Then God said, take your son, your only son, Isaac,
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  Speaker 1: whom you love, and go to the region of Mariah.
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  Speaker 1: Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of
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  Speaker 1: the mountains. I will tell you about. This must have
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  Speaker 1: shattered Abraham's heart. But Genesis twenty two three says early
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  Speaker 1: the next morning, Abraham got up and saddled his donkey.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: He took with him two of his servants and his
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  Speaker 1: son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the
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  Speaker 1: burnt offering, he set out for the place God had
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: told him about. After three days they reached the place.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: Genesis twenty two six seven tells us Abraham took the
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  Speaker 1: wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his
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  Speaker 1: son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke
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  Speaker 1: up and said to his father Abraham, Father, yes, my son.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: Abraham replied, the fire and wood are here. Isaac said,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? Abraham
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  Speaker 1: answered in Genesis twenty two eight, God himself will provide
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: the lamb for the burnt offering my son. When they
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: reached the place, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: Then Jenesis twenty two nine ten describes the moment he
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  Speaker 1: bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar
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  Speaker 1: on top of the wood. Then he reached out his
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: hand and took the knife to slay his son, but
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: God stopped him. Genesis twenty two eleven twelve says, but
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, Abraham, Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: here I am, He replied, do not lay a hand
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  Speaker 1: on the boy. He said, do not do anything to him.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: Now I know that you fear God, because you have
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  Speaker 1: not withheld from me your son, your only son. Then
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  Speaker 1: Abraham looked up. Jenesis twenty two and thirteen records what
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  Speaker 1: he saw. Abraham looked up, and there in a thicket
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a
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  Speaker 1: burnt offering. Instead of his son, God had provided a substitute.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: The ram died in Isaac's place. Years passed, and Abraham
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  Speaker 1: sent his servant to find a wife for Isaac. The
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  Speaker 1: servant met Rebeccah and brought her back. Genesis twenty four
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  Speaker 1: sixty seven says Isaac brought her into the tent of
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  Speaker 1: his mother Sarah, and he married Rebeccah. So she became
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  Speaker 1: his wife, and he loved her. But Rebeccah was baron
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: like Sarah. Genesis twenty five twenty one tells us Isaac
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because
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  Speaker 1: she was baron. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife, Rebeccah,
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  Speaker 1: became pregnant. Isaac prayed for twenty years before God an answered,
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  Speaker 1: but this pregnancy was unusual. Genesis twenty five twenty two
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  Speaker 1: says the babies jostled each other within her, and she said,
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  Speaker 1: why is this happening to me? So she went to
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: inquire of the Lord. God gave her an answer. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: twenty five twenty three records his words. The Lord said
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: to her, two nations are in your womb, and two
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: peoples from within you will be separated. One people will
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: be stronger than the other, and the older will serve
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: the younger. When she gave birth, Genesis twenty five twenty
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  Speaker 1: four twenty six describes what happened when the time came
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: for her to give birth. There were twin boys in
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: her womb. The first to come out was red, and
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: his whole body was like a hairy garment, so they
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  Speaker 1: named him Esau. After this, his brother came out with
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: his hand grasping Esau's heel, so he was named Jacob.
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  Speaker 1: Isaac was sixty years old when Rebecca gave birth to them.
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  Speaker 1: The boys grew up completely different. Genesis twenty five twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven twenty eight says The boys grew up, and Esau
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  Speaker 1: became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: while Jacob was a quiet man staying among the tents. Isaac,
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  Speaker 1: who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but
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  Speaker 1: Rebeccah loved Jacob. One day, Esau came in famished from hunting.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: Genesis twenty five thirty thirty one records their conversation. He
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  Speaker 1: said to Jacob, quick, let me have some of that
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  Speaker 1: red stew. I'm famished. Jacob replied, first, sell me your birthright.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: Esau didn't care about the future. Genesis twenty five thirty
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  Speaker 1: two thirty three says, look, I'm about to die. Esau said,
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  Speaker 1: what good is the birthright to me? But Jacob said,
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  Speaker 1: swear to me first, So he swore an oath to him,
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  Speaker 1: selling his birthright to Jacob. Genesis twenty five thirty four
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  Speaker 1: concludes then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew.
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  Speaker 1: He ate and drank, and then got up and left.
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  Speaker 1: So Esau despised his birthright. Later, when Isaac was old
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: and nearly blind, he prepared to bless Esau, but Rebecca
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: overheard and helped Jacob deceive Isaac to receive the blessing. Instead,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: Jacob dressed in Esau's clothes and covered his arms with
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: goat skins to feel hairy. Jacob lied to his father,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: saying he was Esau. Isaac blessed him, thinking he was
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: blessing Esau. When Esau discovered what happened, Genesis twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: forty one says Esau held a grudge against Jacob because
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  Speaker 1: of the blessing his father had given him. He said
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: to himself, the days of mourning for my father are near.
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  Speaker 1: Then I will kill my brother Jacob. Rebecca told Jacob
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  Speaker 1: to flee to her brother Laban in Haran. So Jacob left,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: Running from his brother's murderous rage, Jacob left Bersheba and
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: traveled toward Haran. Genesis twenty eight ten tis eleven tells
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: us Jacob left Bersheba and set out for Haran. When
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  Speaker 1: he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there,
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: That night, God met Jacob in a dream. Genesis twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight twelve to thirteen describes the vision he had a
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth,
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: God were ascending and descending on it. There above it
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: stood the Lord, and he said, I am the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: the God of your father Abraham, and the God of Isaac.
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  Speaker 1: I will give you and your descendants the land on
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  Speaker 1: which you are lying. This was the first time God
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: spoke directly to Jacob. Despite everything Jacob had done, God
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: was confirming the covenant with him. Genesis twenty eight fourteen
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  Speaker 1: to fifteen records the promise your descendants will be like
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  Speaker 1: the dust of the earth, and you will spread out
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  Speaker 1: to the west and to the east, to the north
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  Speaker 1: and to the south. All peoples on earth will be
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  Speaker 1: blessed through you and your offspring. I am with you
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  Speaker 1: and will watch over you wherever you go, and I
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  Speaker 1: will bring you back to this land. I will not
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  Speaker 1: leave you until I have done what I have promised you.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: When Jacob woke up, he was amazed. Genesis twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: sixteen to seventeen says, when Jacob awoke from his sleep,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: he thought, surely the Lord is in this place, and
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  Speaker 1: I was not aware of it. He was afraid and said,
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: how awesome is this place. This is none other than
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: the house of God. This is the gate of heaven.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: Jacob set up the stone as a pillar and named
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: the place Bethel, which means house of God. Then he
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  Speaker 1: made a vow. Genesis twenty eight twenty twenty two records
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  Speaker 1: his words. Then Jacob made a vow saying, if God
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: will be with me and will watch over me on
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  Speaker 1: this journey i am taking, and will give me food
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  Speaker 1: to eat and clothes to wear, so that I returned
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  Speaker 1: safely to my father's house, then the Lord will be
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  Speaker 1: my God, and this stone that I have set up
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: as a pillow will be God's house. And of all
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: that you give me, I will give you a tenth.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: Jacob continued toward Haran, carrying God's promise with him. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: settled in Canaan and had twelve sons, but one stood out.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: Genesis thirty seven three tells us now Israel loved Joseph
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: more than any of his other sons because he had
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: been born to him in his old age, and he
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: made a richly ornamented robe for him. This special robe
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: was a visible symbol of favoritism. It was beautiful, expensive,
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: and set Joseph apart from his brothers. Genesis thirty seven
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: four says when his brothers saw that their father loved
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: him more than any of them, they hated him and
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  Speaker 1: could not speak a kind word to him. Then Joseph
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  Speaker 1: made things worse by sharing his dreams. Genesis thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: five seven records Joseph had a dream, and when he
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  Speaker 1: told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more.
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  Speaker 1: He said to them, listen to this dream I had.
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  Speaker 1: We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field,
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  Speaker 1: when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your
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  Speaker 1: sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven eight says his brothers said to him, do
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  Speaker 1: you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?
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  Speaker 1: And they hated him all the more because of his
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  Speaker 1: dream and what he had said. Joseph had another dream
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  Speaker 1: Genesis thirty seven nine to ten records. Then he had
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  Speaker 1: another dream, and he told it to his brothers. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: he said, I had another dream, and this time the
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  Speaker 1: sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.
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  Speaker 1: When he told his father as well as his brothers,
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  Speaker 1: his father rebuked him and said, what is this dream
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  Speaker 1: you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers
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  Speaker 1: actually come and bow down to the ground before you.
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  Speaker 1: One day, Jacob sent Joseph to check on his brothers.
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  Speaker 1: When they saw him coming, they plotted to kill him.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis thirty seven nineteen twenty says here comes that dreamer.
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  Speaker 1: They said to each other, Come, now, let's kill him
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  Speaker 1: and throw him into one of these cisterns, and say
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  Speaker 1: that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we'll see what
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  Speaker 1: comes of his dreams. Reuben tried to save him, convincing
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  Speaker 1: them to throw Joseph into a cistern instead. Genesis thirty
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  Speaker 1: seven twenty three twenty four tells us so when Joseph
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  Speaker 1: came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: the richly ornamented robe he was wearing, and they took
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: him and threw him into the cistern. Now the cistern
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  Speaker 1: was empty, there was no water in it. While Joseph
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  Speaker 1: was trapped, they saw a caravan. Genesis thirty seven twenty
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  Speaker 1: six to twenty seven records Judah's suggestion. Judah said to
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  Speaker 1: his brothers, what will we gain if we kill our
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  Speaker 1: brother and cover up his blood? Come, let's sell him
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  Speaker 1: to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him.
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  Speaker 1: After all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.
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  Speaker 1: His brothers agreed. Genesis thirty seven twenty eight says so
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  Speaker 1: when the Midia night merchants came by, his brothers pulled
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  Speaker 1: Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for
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  Speaker 1: twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him
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  Speaker 1: to egypt Oi. They killed a goat and dipped Joseph's
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  Speaker 1: robe in blood. Genesis thirty seven thirty two thirty three
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  Speaker 1: records Jacob's response. They took the ornamented robe back to
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  Speaker 1: their father and said, we've found this. Examine it to
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  Speaker 1: see whether it is your son's robe. He recognized it
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  Speaker 1: and said, it is my son's robe. Some ferocious animal
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis thirty seven thirty four thirty five describes Jacob's grief.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned
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  Speaker 1: for his son. Many days. All his sons and daughters
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  Speaker 1: came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. No,
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  Speaker 1: he said, in mourning, will I go down to the
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  Speaker 1: grave to my son, so his father wept for him. Meanwhile.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis thirty seven thirty six tells us the Midianites sold
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  Speaker 1: Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials, the
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  Speaker 1: captain of the God. In Egypt, Joseph worked in Potiphar's house.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis thirty nine two three says, the Lord was with Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: and he prospered, and he lived in the house of
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  Speaker 1: his Egyptian master. When his master saw or that the
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  Speaker 1: Lord was with him, and that the Lord gave him
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  Speaker 1: success in everything he did, Potiphar put Joseph in charge
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: of his entire household. But Potiphar's wife took notice of Joseph.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis thirty nine seven says, and after a while his
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  Speaker 1: master's wife took notice of Joseph and said, come to
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  Speaker 1: bed with me. Joseph refused, explaining that this would be
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  Speaker 1: a betrayal of Potiphar's trust and a sin against God.
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  Speaker 1: But she kept pressuring him day after day. One day,
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  Speaker 1: when no one else was home, she grabbed him. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine twelve tells us she caught him by his
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  Speaker 1: cloak and said, come to bed with me. But he
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  Speaker 1: left his cloak in her hand and ran out of
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  Speaker 1: the house. Furious at rejection, she falsely accused Joseph. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine, nineteen twenty says when his master heard the story,
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  Speaker 1: his wife told him, saying, this is how your slave
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  Speaker 1: treated me. He burned with anger. Joseph's master took him
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  Speaker 1: and put him in prison, the place where the king's
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  Speaker 1: prisoners were confined. Joseph was innocent but imprisoned yet. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine twenty one tells us, but while Joseph was
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  Speaker 1: there in the prison, the lord was with him. He
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  Speaker 1: showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: of the prison warden. The warden put Joseph in charge
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: of all the prisoners. Later, Pharaoh's cupbearer and baker were
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  Speaker 1: imprisoned there. Both had dreams. One night, Joseph interpreted both accurately.
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  Speaker 1: The cup bearer would be restored in three days, the
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  Speaker 1: baker would be executed. Genesis forty fourteen two to fifteen
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  Speaker 1: records Joseph's request to the cupbearer, but when all goes
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: well with you, remember me and show me kindness. Mention
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  Speaker 1: me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this prison.
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  Speaker 1: For I was forcibly carried off from the land of
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  Speaker 1: the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing to
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  Speaker 1: deserve being put in a dungeon. Everything happened as Joseph said.
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  Speaker 1: But Genesis forty twenty three ads. The chief cup bearer, however,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: did not remember Joseph. He forgot him. Two years later,
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh had troubling dreams. The cup bearer finally remembered Joseph.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis forty one fourteen says, So Pharaoh sent for Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: and he was quickly brought from the dungeon. When he
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  Speaker 1: had shaved and changed his clothes, he came before Pharaoh.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph interpreted Pharaoh's dreams seven years of abundance followed by
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  Speaker 1: seven years of famine. He advised storing grain during the
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  Speaker 1: good years. Genesis forty one thirty nine to forty one
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  Speaker 1: records Pharaoh's response. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, since God
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  Speaker 1: has made all this known to you, there is no
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  Speaker 1: one so discerning and wise as you. You shall be
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  Speaker 1: in charge of my palace, and all my people are
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: to submit to your orders. Only with respect to the throne.
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  Speaker 1: Will I be greater than you. So Pharaoh said to Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: I hereby put you in charge of the whole land
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: of Egypt. E Genesis forty one forty two to forty
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  Speaker 1: three describes the transformation. Then Pharaoh took his signet ring
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  Speaker 1: from his finger and put it on Joseph's finger. He
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  Speaker 1: dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: gold chain around his neck. He had him ride in
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: a chariot as his second in command, and men shouted
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: before him make way. Thus he put him in charge
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: of the whole land of Egypt. Joseph was thirty years old.
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  Speaker 1: The seven years of abundance came, and Joseph stored grain.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: Then the famine began. The famine spread beyond Egypt Genesis
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  Speaker 1: forty one fifty seven says, and all the countries came
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  Speaker 1: to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph because the famine
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: was severe in all the world. The famine reached Canaan
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: Genesis forty two one two records when Jacob learned that
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  Speaker 1: there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons,
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: why do you just keep looking at each other? He continued,
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  Speaker 1: I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go
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  Speaker 1: down there and buy some for us, so that we
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  Speaker 1: may live and not die. Ten brothers went to Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob kept Benjamin at home when they arrived. Genesis forty
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  Speaker 1: two sixty eight tells us Now, Joseph was the governor
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: of the land, the one who sold grain to all
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: its people. So when Joseph's brothers arrived, they bowed down
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: to him with their faces to the ground. As soon
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: as Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: pretended to be a stranger and spoke harshly to them.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: Where do you come from, he asked, from the land
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: of Canaan. They replied to buy food. Although Joseph recognized
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: his brothers, they did not recognize him. Joseph's dreams were
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  Speaker 1: coming true. He accused them of being spies and tested them.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: He kept Simeon in prison and demanded they return with Benjamin.
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  Speaker 1: As they prepared to leave, they talked among themselves. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: forty two twenty one to twenty two records They said
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: to one another, surely we are being punished because of
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: our brother. We saw how distressed he was when he
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: pleaded with us for his life, but we would not listen.
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  Speaker 1: That's why this distress has come upon us. Reuben replied,
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  Speaker 1: didn't I tell you not to sin against the boy?
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  Speaker 1: But you wouldn't listen. Now we must give an accounting
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: for his blood. Genesis forty two, twenty three to twenty
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  Speaker 1: four says they did not realize that Joseph could understand
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  Speaker 1: them since he was using an interpreter. He turned away
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: from them and began to weep, but then turned back
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: and spoke to them again. Eventually they returned with Benjamin.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: When Joseph saw Benjamin, Genesis forty three, p. Thirty says,
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  Speaker 1: deeply moved at the sight of his brother, Joseph hurried
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: out and looked for a place to weep. He went
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: into his private room and wept there. Joseph set up
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: one final test, placing his silver cup in Benjamin's sack.
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  Speaker 1: When it was found, Judah pleaded for Benjamin's life, offering
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: to become a slave in his place. Genesis forty four
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  Speaker 1: thirty three thirty four records Judah's offer, Now, then, please
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: let your servant remain here as my lord's slave in
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: place of the boy, and let the boy return with
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: his brothers. How can I go back to my father
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: if the boy is not with me? No, do not
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  Speaker 1: let me see the misery that would come upon my father.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: This broke Joseph. Genesis forty five one to three says.
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  Speaker 1: Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants,
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  Speaker 1: and he cried out, have every one leave my presence.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: So there was no one with Joseph. When he made
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: himself known to his brothers, and he wept so loudly
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: that the Egyptians heard it, and Pharaoh's household heard about it.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph. Is my
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  Speaker 1: father still living. But his brothers were not able to
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: answer him because they were terrified at his presence. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: forty five four to five records his words. Then Joseph
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  Speaker 1: said to his brothers, come close to me. When they
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  Speaker 1: had done so, he said, I am your brother, Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: the one you sold into Egypt. And now do not
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: be distressed, and do not be angry with yourselves for
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: selling me here, because it was to save lives that
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: God sent me ahead of you. Joseph invited them to
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: bring the entire family to Egypt. They returned to Canaan
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: with the news. Genesis forty five twenty six twenty eight
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: records Jacob's response, They told him Joseph is still alive.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: In fact, he is ruler of all Egypt. Jacob was stunned.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: He did not believe them, But when they told him
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: everything Joseph had said to them and were when he
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: saw the carts Joseph had sent to carry him back
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: the spirit of their father. Jacob revived, and Israel said,
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: I'm convinced my son Joseph is still alive. I will
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: go and see him before I die. Jacob and his
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: family seventy people moved to Egypt. Genesis forty six twenty
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: nine to thirty describes the reunion. Joseph had his chariot
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: made ready and went to Goshen to meet his father Israel.
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: As soon as Joseph appeared before him, he threw his
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  Speaker 1: arms around his father and wept for a long time.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: Israel said to Joseph, now I am ready to die,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: since I have seen for myself that you are still alive.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: Joseph settled them in Goshen. Before Jacob died, he blessed
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: his sons. Genesis fifty twenty four to twenty six records
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: Joseph's death. Then Joseph said to his brothers I am
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: about to die, but God will surely come to your
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: aid and take you up out of this land to
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: and Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: and said, God will surely come to your aid, and
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: then you must carry my bones up from this place.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten,
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: and after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin.
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: In Egypt, time passed many generations. Exodus one six seven
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  Speaker 1: tells us Now Joseph and all his brothers and all
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: that generation died, but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful. They
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  Speaker 1: multiplied greatly, increased in numbers, and became so numerous that
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  Speaker 1: the land was filled with them. The Israelites grew from
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: one family into a nation. Then everything changed, Exodus one
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  Speaker 1: eighth says. Then a new king, who did not know
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: about Joseph, came to power in Egypt. This pharaoh saw
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: the Israelites as a threat. Exodus one nine ten records
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: his words. Look, he said to his people, the Israelites
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: have become far too numerous for us. Come we must
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  Speaker 1: deal shrewdly with them, or they will become even more numerous,
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: and if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: against us and leave the country. So the Egyptians enslave them,
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: Exodus one eleven says. So they put slave masters over
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. But Exodus
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  Speaker 1: one twelve says, but the more they were oppressed, the
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: more they multiplied and spread, so the Egyptians came to
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  Speaker 1: dread the Israelites. Pharaoh ordered the Hebrew midwives to kill
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: baby boys. Exodus one fifteen to sixteen records the king
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: Shiprah and Poor, when you help the Hebrew women in
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  Speaker 1: childbirth and observe them on the delivery stool, if it
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: is a boy, kill him, But if it is a girl,
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: let her live mum. But Exodus one seventeen says the midwives, however,
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  Speaker 1: feared God and did not do what the King of
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: Egypt had told them to do. They let the boys live.
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: God blessed them for their courage. Frustrated, Pharaoh gave a
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  Speaker 1: public order Exodus one twenty two says, then Pharaoh gave
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: this order to all his people. Every boy that is born,
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: you must throw into the nile, but let every girl live.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: A Levite couple had a son. Exodus two p. Two
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  Speaker 1: says she became pregnant and gave birth to a son.
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  Speaker 1: When she saw that he was a fine child, she
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  Speaker 1: hid him for three months. When she couldn't hide him anymore,
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: Exodus two three tells us, but when she could hide
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: the child in it and put it among the reeds
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: along the bank of the Nile. Exodus two five to
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: six records what happened. Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: the river bank. She saw the basket among the reeds
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: and sent her slave girl to get it. She opened
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: felt sorry for him. This is one of the Hebrew babies,
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: she said. The baby's sister approached. Exodus two seven to
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  Speaker 1: eight says, then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, shall I
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: the baby for you. Yes, go, she answered, and the
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: girl went and got the baby's mother. Exodus two nine
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: continues Pharaoh's daughter said to her, take this baby and
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  Speaker 1: nurse him for me, and I will pay you. So
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: the woman took the baby and nursed him. The mother
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: was paid to care for her own child when he
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: grew older. Exodus two ten says when the child grew older,
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  Speaker 1: she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son.
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: She named him Moses, saying I drew him out of
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: the water. Moses grew up in the palace, but knew
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: his Hebrew identity. One day, Exodus two eleven to twelve
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: tells us he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew one
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: of his own people. Glancing this way and that, and
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: him in the sand. When Pharaoh heard about it, he
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: tried to kill Moses. Moses fled to Midian, where he
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: married and became a shepherd. Exodus two twenty three to
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: twenty five tells us during that long period, the king
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: cried out. And their cry for help because of their
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: slavery went up to God. God heard their groaning, and
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: he remembered his cover, and with Abraham, with Isaac, and
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: with Jacob. So God looked on the Israelites and was
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: concerned about them. Moses spent forty years as a shepherd.
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: He was now eighty years old. Then one day changed everything.
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: Exodus three one to two describes it. Now Moses was
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: tending the flock of Jethro, his father in law, the
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: mountain of God. There the Angel of the Lord appeared
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: to him in flames of fire from within a bush.
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: Moses saw that though the bush was on fire, it
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: did not burn up. Exodus three three four says, So
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: Moses thought, I will go over and see this strange sight.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: Why the bush does not burn up. When the Lord
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: saw that he had gone over to look, God called
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: to him from within the bush Moses Moses, and Moses
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: said here I am Exodus three fire records do not
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: come any closer. God said, take off your sandals, for
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: the place where you are standing is holy ground. Exodus
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  Speaker 1: three six says, then he said, I am the God
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  Speaker 1: of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
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  Speaker 1: and the God of Jacob. At this Moses hid his
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  Speaker 1: face because he was afraid to look at God. Exodus
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  Speaker 1: three seven to ten records God's mission. The Lord said,
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  Speaker 1: I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers,
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  Speaker 1: and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have
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  Speaker 1: come down to rescue them from the hand of the
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  Speaker 1: Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land
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  Speaker 1: into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with
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  Speaker 1: milk and honey, the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Parizites, Hivites,
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  Speaker 1: and Jebusates. And now the cry of the Israelites has
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  Speaker 1: reached me, and I have seen the way the Egypts
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  Speaker 1: are oppressing them. So now go, I am sending you
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  Speaker 1: to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: Moses felt inadequate. He asked what to say if they
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  Speaker 1: asked God's name. Exodus three fourteen fifteen records God's answer.
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  Speaker 1: God said to Moses, I am who I am. This
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  Speaker 1: is what you are to say to the Israelites. I
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  Speaker 1: Am has sent me to you. God also said to Moses,
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  Speaker 1: say to the Israelites, the Lord, the God of your fathers,
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  Speaker 1: the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the
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  Speaker 1: God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is
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  Speaker 1: my name forever, the name by which I am to
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  Speaker 1: be remembered from generation to generation. Moses made more excuses,
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  Speaker 1: so God gave him miraculous signs and allowed Aaron to
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  Speaker 1: speak for him. Finally, Moses agreed and returned to Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: Exodus fourth, twenty nine to thirty one tells us Moses
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  Speaker 1: and Aaron brought together all the elders of the Israelites,
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  Speaker 1: and Aaron told them everything the Lord had said to Moses.
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  Speaker 1: He also performed the signs before the people, and they believed.
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  Speaker 1: And when they heard that the Lord was concerned about
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  Speaker 1: them and had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.
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  Speaker 1: Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh. Exodus five one records afterward,
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  Speaker 1: Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, this is
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  Speaker 1: what the Lord, the God of Israel, says. Let my
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  Speaker 1: people go so that they may hold a festival to
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  Speaker 1: me in the desert. Exodus five two says Pharaoh said,
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  Speaker 1: who is the Lord that I should obey him and
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  Speaker 1: let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and
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  Speaker 1: I will not let Israel go. Pharaoh refused and made
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  Speaker 1: their work harder. Then God sent ten plagues against Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: The first turned the Nile to blood. Exodus seven twenty
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  Speaker 1: to twenty one says Moses and Aaron did just as
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  Speaker 1: the Lord had commanded. He raised his staff in the
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  Speaker 1: presence of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the water
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  Speaker 1: of the Nile, and all the water was changed into blood.
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  Speaker 1: The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelt
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  Speaker 1: so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water.
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  Speaker 1: Blood was everywhere in Egypt. The second brought frogs everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: The third turned dust into gnats. The fourth sent swarms
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  Speaker 1: of flies, but only on Egyptians. The fifth killed Egyptian livestock.
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  Speaker 1: The sixth brought painful boils. The seventh sent devastating hail.
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  Speaker 1: Exodus nine twenty three to twenty five describes it when
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  Speaker 1: Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the Lord
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  Speaker 1: sent thunder and hail and lightning flashed down to the ground.
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  Speaker 1: So the Lord reigned hail on the land of Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: Hail fell, and lightning flashed back and forth. It was
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  Speaker 1: the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since
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  Speaker 1: it had become a nation. Throughout Egypt, hail struck everything
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  Speaker 1: in the fields, both men and animals. It beat down
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  Speaker 1: everything growing in the fields, and stripped every tree. The
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  Speaker 1: eighth brought locusts. Exodus ten fourteen fifteen says they invaded
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  Speaker 1: all Egypt and settled down in every area of the
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  Speaker 1: country in great numbers. Never before had there been such
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  Speaker 1: a plague of locusts, nor will there ever be again.
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  Speaker 1: They covered all the ground until it was black. They
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  Speaker 1: devoured all that was left after the hail, everything growing
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  Speaker 1: in the fields and the fruit on the trees. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: green remained on tree or plant in all the land
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt. The ninth was three days of darkness. Exodus
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  Speaker 1: ten twenty two twenty three says, so Moses stretched out
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  Speaker 1: his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all
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  Speaker 1: Egypt for three days. No one could see anyone else
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  Speaker 1: or leave his place for three days. Yet all the
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  Speaker 1: Israelites had light in the places where they lived, and
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  Speaker 1: after nine plagues, Pharaoh's heart remained hard. Now God would
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  Speaker 1: send one final plague. God told Moses about the final
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  Speaker 1: plague Exodus eleven four to six records. So Moses said,
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  Speaker 1: this is what the Lord says about midnight. I will
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  Speaker 1: go throughout Egypt. Every first born son in Egypt will die,
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  Speaker 1: from the first born son of Pharaoh, who sits on
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  Speaker 1: the throne, to the first born son of the slave
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  Speaker 1: girl who is at her hand mill, and all the
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  Speaker 1: first born of the cattle as well. There will be
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  Speaker 1: loud wailing throughout Egypt, worse than there has ever been
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  Speaker 1: or ever will be again. But God provided protection for
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  Speaker 1: the Israelites. Exodus twelve three to seven records. The instructions
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  Speaker 1: tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth
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  Speaker 1: day of this month, each man is to take a
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  Speaker 1: lamb for his family, one for each household. The animals
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  Speaker 1: you choose must be year old males without defect, and
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  Speaker 1: you may take them from the sheep or the goats.
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  Speaker 1: Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month,
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  Speaker 1: when all the people of the community of Israel must
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  Speaker 1: slaughter them. At twilight. Then they are to take some
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  Speaker 1: of the blood and put it on the sides and
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  Speaker 1: tops of the door frames of the houses where they
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  Speaker 1: eat the lambs. Exodus twelve twelve to thirteen explains why
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  Speaker 1: on that same night I will pass through Egypt and
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  Speaker 1: strike down every firstborn, both men and animals, and I
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  Speaker 1: will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I
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  Speaker 1: am the Lord. The blood will be assigned for you
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  Speaker 1: on the houses where you are, and when I see
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  Speaker 1: the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague
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  Speaker 1: will touch you. When I strike Egypt. The blood on
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  Speaker 1: the door frame would cause the destroyer to pass over
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  Speaker 1: that house. Exodus twelve eight two eleven gave instructions for
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  Speaker 1: eating that same night. They are to eat the meat
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  Speaker 1: roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs and bread
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  Speaker 1: made without yeast. Do not eat the meat raw or
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  Speaker 1: cooked in water, but roast it over the fire head, legs,
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  Speaker 1: and inner parts. Do not leave any of it till morning.
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  Speaker 1: If some is left till morning, you must burn it.
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  Speaker 1: This is how you are to eat it, with your
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  Speaker 1: cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet,
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  Speaker 1: and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste.
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  Speaker 1: It is the Lord's pass over the Israelites obeyed. At midnight,
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  Speaker 1: the plague struck. Exodus twelve twenty nine thirty describes it.
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  Speaker 1: At midnight, the Lord struck down all the first born
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt, from the first born of Pharaoh who sat
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  Speaker 1: on the throne, to the first born of the prisoner
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  Speaker 1: who was in the dungeon, and the first born of
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  Speaker 1: all the live stock as well. Pharaoh and all his
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  Speaker 1: officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night,
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  Speaker 1: and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was
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  Speaker 1: not a house without someone dead. Every Egyptian household lost someone,
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  Speaker 1: but in Israelite homes marked with blood, everyone was safe.
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh summoned Moses Exodus twelve thirty one two records. During
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  Speaker 1: the night, Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, up,
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  Speaker 1: leave my people, You and the Israelites go worship the
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  Speaker 1: Lord as you have requested. Take your flocks and herds
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  Speaker 1: as you have said, and go, and also bless me.
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  Speaker 1: The Israelites left. Exodus twelve thirty seven thirty nine tells
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  Speaker 1: us the Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth. There were
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  Speaker 1: about six hundred thousand men on foot besides women and children.
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  Speaker 1: Many other people went up with them, as well as
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  Speaker 1: large droves of live stock, both flocks and herds. With
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  Speaker 1: the dough they had brought from Egypt, they baked cakes
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  Speaker 1: of unleavened bread. The dough was without yeast because they
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  Speaker 1: had been driven out of Egypt and did not have
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  Speaker 1: time to prepare food for themselves. Exodus twelve forty forty
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  Speaker 1: one ADS. Now the length of time the Israelite people
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  Speaker 1: lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years. At the
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  Speaker 1: end of the four hundred thirty years to the very day,
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  Speaker 1: all the Lord's divisions left Egypt. After four hundred thirty
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  Speaker 1: years in Egypt, the Israelites walked out free, carrying Joseph's
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  Speaker 1: bones with them God had delivered them. The Israelites left
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  Speaker 1: Egypt with great celebration, but their freedom didn't last long
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  Speaker 1: without a fight. Pharaoh changed his mind. Exodus fourteen to
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  Speaker 1: five tells us. When the king of Egypt was told
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  Speaker 1: that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed
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  Speaker 1: their minds about them and said, what have we done?
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  Speaker 1: We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services.
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  Speaker 1: So Pharaoh prepared his army. Exodus fourteen six to seven, says,
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  Speaker 1: so he had his chariot made ready and took his
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  Speaker 1: army with him. He took six hundred of the best chariots,
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  Speaker 1: along with all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers
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  Speaker 1: over all of them. The entire Egyptian military force ensued
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: the Israelites into the wilderness. The Israelites were camped by
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sea. When they saw the Egyptian army approaching,
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  Speaker 1: they panicked. Exodus fourteen ten twelve records their fear. As
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and there were the
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  Speaker 1: Egyptians marching after them. They were terrified and cried out
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord. They said to Moses, was it because
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  Speaker 1: there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us
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  Speaker 1: to the desert to die? What have you done to
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: us by bringing us out of Egypt? Didn't we say
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  Speaker 1: to you in Egypt, leave us alone, let us serve
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  Speaker 1: the Egyptians. It would have been better for us to
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  Speaker 1: serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert. They
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  Speaker 1: were trapped. The sea was in front of them, mountains
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  Speaker 1: on both sides, and the Egyptian army behind them. But
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  Speaker 1: Moses responded with confidence. Exodus fourteen thirteen fourteen records his words.
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  Speaker 1: Moses answered, the people, do not be afraid. Stand for
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  Speaker 1: and you will see the deliverance. The Lord will bring
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  Speaker 1: you to day. The Egyptians you see today you will
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: never see again. The Lord will fight for you. You need
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  Speaker 1: only to be still. Then God told Moses what to do.
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  Speaker 1: Exodus fourteen o sixteen says, raise your staff and stretch
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  Speaker 1: out your hand over the sea, to divide the water,
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  Speaker 1: so that the Israelites can go through the sea on
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  Speaker 1: dry ground. Moses obeyed. Exodus fourteen twenty one twenty two
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  Speaker 1: describes what happened. Then Moses stretched out his hand over
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  Speaker 1: the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the
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  Speaker 1: sea back with a strong east wind and turned it
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  Speaker 1: into dry land. The waters were divided, and the Israelites
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  Speaker 1: went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall
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  Speaker 1: of water on their right and on their left. The
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  Speaker 1: entire nation walked through the sea on dry ground. The
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  Speaker 1: water stood up like walls on both sides. The Egyptians
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  Speaker 1: pursued them into the sea. Exodus fourteen twenty five tree
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  Speaker 1: twenty four says the Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh's
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  Speaker 1: horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea.
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  Speaker 1: During the last watch of the night, the Lord looked
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  Speaker 1: down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the
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  Speaker 1: Egyptian army and threw it into confusion. Then God told
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  Speaker 1: Moses to stretch out his hand again. Exodus fourteen twenty
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  Speaker 1: six to twenty eight records what happened then. The Lord
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  Speaker 1: said to Moses, stretch out your hand over the sea,
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  Speaker 1: so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians
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  Speaker 1: and their chariots and horsemen. Moses stretched out his hand
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  Speaker 1: over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back
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  Speaker 1: to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward it, and
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: the Lord swept them into the sea. The water flowed
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: back and covered the chariots and horsemen. The entire army
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  Speaker 1: of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea.
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  Speaker 1: Not one of them survived. The Egyptian army was completely destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: Exodus fourteen thirty to thirty one says that day the
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: Lord saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore. And
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: when the Israelites saw the great power the Lord displayed
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  Speaker 1: against the Egyptians. The people feared the Lord and put
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: their trust in him and in Moses his servant. After
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: the victory at the Red Sea, the Israelites traveled into
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  Speaker 1: the desert of shr Three days later, they came to Marah,
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  Speaker 1: but the water there was bitter, and they couldn't drink it.
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  Speaker 1: The people grumbled against Moses. God showed Moses a piece
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: of wood, and when he threw it into the water,
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 1: the water became sweet. They continued to Elim, where there
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  Speaker 1: were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, But then they
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  Speaker 1: entered the desert of Sin. Exodus sixteen two to three
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  Speaker 1: records their complaint. In the desert, the whole community grumbled
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  Speaker 1: against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, if
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  Speaker 1: only we had died by the Lord's hand in Egypt,
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: there we sat around pots of meat and ate all
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: the food we wanted. But you have brought us out
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  Speaker 1: into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.
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  Speaker 1: They were hungry and afraid. They even wished they had
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 1: died in Egypt rather than face starvation in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: But God was about to teach them about daily dependence
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: on him. Exodus sixteen four records God's response. Then the
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: Lord said to Moses, I will rain down bread from
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  Speaker 1: heaven for you. The people are to go out each
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: day and gather enough for that day. In this way,
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: I will test them and see whether they will follow
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: my instructions. God would provide bread from heaven, but with
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: specific rules. They could only gather enough for one day
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: at a time. This would test whether they trusted God
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  Speaker 1: to provide again tomorrow. That evening, quail came and covered
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: the camp, providing meat. Then in the morning something appeared
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: on the ground, as sixteen thirteen fifteen describes it. In
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 1: the morning, there was a layer of dew around the camp.
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: When the dew was gone, thin flakes, like frost on
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  Speaker 1: the ground appeared on the desert floor. When the Israelites
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: saw it, they said to each other, what is it?
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: But they did not know what it was. Moses said
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  Speaker 1: to them, it is the bread the Lord has given
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  Speaker 1: you to eat. They called it mana, which means what
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  Speaker 1: is it. Exodus sixteen thirty one describes what it was like.
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  Speaker 1: The people of Israel called the bread mana. It was
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
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  Speaker 1: God gave specific instructions about gathering it. Exodus sixteen sixteen
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  Speaker 1: to eighteen says, this is what the Lord has commanded.
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  Speaker 1: Each one is to gather as much as he needs.
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  Speaker 1: Take an omer for each person you have in your tent.
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  Speaker 1: The Israelites did as they were told. Some gathered much,
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: some little, and when they met, measured it by the omer.
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  Speaker 1: He who gathered much did not have too much, and
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  Speaker 1: he who gathered little did not have too little. Each
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  Speaker 1: one gathered as much as he needed. No matter how
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: much they gathered, everyone had exactly what they needed. Then
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: Moses gave them a command. Exodus sixteen nineteen says, then
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  Speaker 1: Moses said to them, no one is to keep any
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: of it until morning, But some people didn't listen. Exodus
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  Speaker 1: sixteen twenty tells us, However, some of them paid no
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  Speaker 1: attention to Moses. They kept part of it until morning,
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  Speaker 1: but it was full of maggots and began to smell,
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: so Moses was angry with them. The manner couldn't be stored.
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  Speaker 1: They had to trust God for fresh provision each day.
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  Speaker 1: But on the sixth day they were to gather twice
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  Speaker 1: as much because no manner would fall on the Sabbath.
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  Speaker 1: Exodus sixteen twenty two twenty four says on the sixth
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  Speaker 1: day they gathered twice as much, two omers for each person,
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: and the leaders of the community came and reported this
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: to Moses. He said to them, this is what the
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 1: Lord commanded to morrow is to be a day of rest,
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: a holy sabbath to the Lord. So bake what you
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: want to bake, and boil what you want to boil.
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  Speaker 1: Save whatever is left, and keep it until morning. So
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: they saved it until morning, as Moses commanded, and it
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: did not stink or get maggots in it. On the
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  Speaker 1: sixth day. The manner kept fresh over night so they
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: could rest on the sabbath. Some people went out on
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  Speaker 1: the seventh day to gather but found nothing Exodus sixteenth
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: twenty seven to thirty records. Nevertheless, some of the people
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: went out on the seventh day to gather it, but
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: they found none. Then the Lord said to Moses, how
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 1: long will you refuse to keep my commands and my instruction.
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: Bear in mind that the Lord has given you the Sabbath.
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: That is why on the sixth day he gives you
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where he
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: is on the seventh day, no one is to go out.
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: So the people rested on the seventh day. God provided
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: manner every single day for forty years. Exodus sixteen thirty
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  Speaker 1: five says the Israelites ate manna forty years until they
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 1: came to a land that was settled. They ate manna
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: until they reached the border of Canaan. The Israelites continued
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: their journey and camped at Refidim, but there was no
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  Speaker 1: water for the people to drink. Once again, they quarreled
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  Speaker 1: with Moses. Exodus seventeen two three records their complaint. So
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: they quarreled with Moses and said, give us water to drink.
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  Speaker 1: De Moses replied, why do you quarrel with me? Why
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  Speaker 1: do you put the Lord to the test. But the
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses.
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  Speaker 1: They said, why did you bring us up out of
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  Speaker 1: Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die
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  Speaker 1: of thirst? They were desperate and angry. Their thirst made
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  Speaker 1: them forget all the miracles God had already done for them.
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  Speaker 1: Moses cried out to God. Exodus seventeen four says, then
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  Speaker 1: Moses cried out to the Lord, what am I to
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  Speaker 1: do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.
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  Speaker 1: God gave Moses specific instructions. Exodus seventeen five to six
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  Speaker 1: records them. The Lord answered, Moses, walk on ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: and take in your hand the staff with which you
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 1: struck the Nile, and go. I will stand there before
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  Speaker 1: you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and
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  Speaker 1: water will come out of it for the people to drink.
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  Speaker 1: Mut So Moses did this in the sight of the
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  Speaker 1: elders of Israel. Moses struck the rock with his staff,
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  Speaker 1: and water gushed out. The peace and their livestock drank.
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  Speaker 1: Exodus seventeen seven says and he called the place Massa
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  Speaker 1: and Marribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, saying is the Lord among us or not?
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  Speaker 1: The names Massa and Meribah mean testing and quarreling. After this,
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 1: the Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites. Moses told Joshua
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  Speaker 1: to choose men and fight while he stood on top
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  Speaker 1: of the hill with the staff of God in his hands.
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  Speaker 1: Exodus seventeen eleven to thirteen describes the battle. As long
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  Speaker 1: as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning,
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  Speaker 1: but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning.
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  Speaker 1: When moses hands grew tired, they took a stone and
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  Speaker 1: put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron
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  Speaker 1: and Her held his hands up, one on one side,
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  Speaker 1: one on the other, so that his hands remained steady
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  Speaker 1: till sunset. So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.
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  Speaker 1: The victory depended on Moses keeping his hands raised. When
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't do it alone, Aaron and Her supported him
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  Speaker 1: until the battle was won. Three months after leaving Egypt,
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: the Israelites came to the desert of Sinai and camped
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 1: at the base of Mount Sinai. Exodus nineteen three to
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  Speaker 1: six records God's message through Moses. Then Moses went up
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  Speaker 1: to God, and the Lord called to him from the
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  Speaker 1: mountain and said, this is what you are to say
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  Speaker 1: to the house of Jacob, and what you are to
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: tell the people of Israel. You yourselves have seen what
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  Speaker 1: I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on
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  Speaker 1: eagle's wings and brought you to myself. Now. If you
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  Speaker 1: obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: all nations, you will be my treasured possession. Although the
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  Speaker 1: whole earth is mine. You will be for me a
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 1: kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: words you are to speak to the Israelites. The people
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: agreed to abet everything God said. Then God told Moses
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  Speaker 1: to prepare the people because he would come down on
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: the mountain in three days. Exodus nineteen ten thirteen gives
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  Speaker 1: the instructions, and the Lord said to Moses, go to
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: the people and consecrate them to day and tomorrow. Have
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 1: them wash their clothes and be ready by the third day,
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  Speaker 1: because on that day the Lord will come down on
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  Speaker 1: Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. Put
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  Speaker 1: limits for the people around the mountain, and tell them
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  Speaker 1: be careful that you do not go up the mountain
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  Speaker 1: or touch the foot of it. Whoever touches the mountain
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: shall surely be put to death. He shall surely be
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  Speaker 1: stoned or shot with arrows. Not a hand is to
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  Speaker 1: be laid on him, whether man or animal, he shall
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  Speaker 1: not be permitted to live. And only when the rams
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 1: horn sounds a long blast may they go up to
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  Speaker 1: the mountain. The mountain was holy, and any one who
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  Speaker 1: touched it would die. On the third day, something terrifying happened.
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  Speaker 1: Exodus nineteen sixteen nineteen describes it. On the morning of
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  Speaker 1: the third day, there was thunder and lightning, with a
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  Speaker 1: thick cloud over the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast.
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: Everyone in the camp trembled. Then Moses led the people
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 1: out of the camp to meet with God, and they
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: stood at the foot of the mountain. Mount Sinai was
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: covered with smoke because the Lord descended on it in fire.
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 1: The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace.
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  Speaker 1: The whole mountain trembled violently, and the sound of the
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: trumpet grew louder and louder. Then Moses spoke, and the
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  Speaker 1: voice of God answered him. The entire mountain was on fire,
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: covered in smoke, shaking violently. God came down in fire
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: and spoke. Then God called Moses to the top of
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  Speaker 1: the mountain and gave him the Ten Commandments. Exodus twenty
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  Speaker 1: one to seventeen records them. And God spoke all these words,
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  Speaker 1: I am the Lord, your God, who brought you out
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt. Out of the land of slavery. You shall
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  Speaker 1: have no other gods before me. You shall not make
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  Speaker 1: for yourself an idol in the form of anything in
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: heaven above, or on the earth beneath, or in the
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: waters below. You shall not bow down to them or
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  Speaker 1: worship them. For I, the Lord your God, am a
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  Speaker 1: jealous god, punishing the children for the sin of the
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  Speaker 1: fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who
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  Speaker 1: hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 1: those who love me. And keep my commandments. You shall
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  Speaker 1: not misuse the name of the Lord your God. For
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: the Lord will not hold any one guiltless who misuses
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  Speaker 1: his name. Remember the sabbath day by keeping it holy.
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  Speaker 1: Six days you shall labor and do all your work.
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  Speaker 1: But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord
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  Speaker 1: your God. On it you shall not do any work,
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  Speaker 1: neither you nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant
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  Speaker 1: or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates.
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  Speaker 1: For in six days the Lord made the heavens and
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: the earth, the sea, and all that is in them,
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  Speaker 1: but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the Lord
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  Speaker 1: blessed the sabbath day and made it holy honor your
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  Speaker 1: father and your mother, so that you may live long
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  Speaker 1: in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
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  Speaker 1: You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery. You
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  Speaker 1: shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony against
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  Speaker 1: your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbour's house. You
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  Speaker 1: shall not covet your neighbour's wife, or his manservant or maidservant,
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  Speaker 1: his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: The people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet.
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  Speaker 1: Exodus twenty eighteen to nineteen says when the people saw
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  Speaker 1: the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet, and saw
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 1: the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: at a distance and said to Moses, speak to us yourself,
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  Speaker 1: and we will listen. But do not have God speak
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: to us, or we will die. They were terrified of
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 1: God's presence. Moses went into the thick darkness where God was,
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: and God gave him many more laws and instructions for
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 1: how the people should live. Moses stayed on the mountain
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 1: with God for forty days and forty nights. During this time,
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 1: God gave him detailed instructions for building the tabernacle and
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 1: wrote the Ten Commandments on two stone tablets with his
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  Speaker 1: own finger. But down below the people grew impatient. Exodus
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  Speaker 1: thirty two one records what happened when the people saw
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  Speaker 1: that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain.
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  Speaker 1: They gathered around Aaron and said, come make us gods
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: who will go before us. As for this fellow, Moses,
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: who brought us up out of Egypt, we don't know
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 1: what has happened to him. Aaron gave in to their demands. E. T.
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  Speaker 1: Two two to four tells us what he did. Aaron
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  Speaker 1: answered them, take off the gold earrings that your wives,
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  Speaker 1: your sons, and your daughters are wearing, and bring them
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  Speaker 1: to me. So all the people took off their earrings
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 1: and brought them to Aaron. He took what they handed
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 1: him and made it into an idol cast in the
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 1: shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 1: they said, these are your gods, o Israel, who brought
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 1: you up out of Egypt. Aaron built an altar in
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: front of the calf and announced a festival. The next day.
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: The people offered sacrifices and sat down to eat and drink,
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 1: then got up to indulge in revelry. They were worshiping
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: a golden calf, breaking the very first commandment God had
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 1: just given them. God told Moses what was happening. Exodus
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 1: thirty two seven to ten records God's words. Then the
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 1: Lord said to Moses, go down, because your people, whom
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 1: you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. They
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  Speaker 1: have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them,
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  Speaker 1: and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: of a calf. They have bowed down to it and
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: sacrificed to it, and have said, these are your gods,
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt. I
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: have seen these people, the Lord said to Moses, and
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 1: they are a stiff necked people. Now leave me alone,
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 1: so that my anger may burn against them, and that
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: I may destroy them. Then I will make you into
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: a great nation. But Moses pleaded with God to spare
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: the people. Exodus thirty two eleven to fourteen records his intercession.
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: But Moses sought the favor of the Lord, his God,
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: O Lord, He said, why should your anger burn against
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 1: your people whom you brought out of Egypt with great
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: power and a mighty hand. Why should the Egyptians say
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 1: it was with evil intent that he brought them out
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them
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  Speaker 1: off the face of the earth. Turn from your fierce anger, relent,
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  Speaker 1: and do not bring disaster on your people. Remember your servants, Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self.
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  Speaker 1: I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: in the sky. And I will give your descendants all
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 1: this land, I promised them, and it will be their
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 1: inheritance forever. Then the Lord relented and did not bring
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 1: on his people the disaster he had threatened. Moses went
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 1: down the mountain carrying the two stone tablets. When he
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing,
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 1: his anger burned. Exodus thirty two nineteen says when Moses
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing,
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: his anger burned, and he threw the tablets out of
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 1: his hands, breaking them to pieces. At the foot of
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: the mountain, Moses destroyed the golden calf twenty two twenty
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  Speaker 1: tells us, and he took the calf they had made
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 1: and burned it in the fire. Then he ground it
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 1: to powder, scattered it on the water, and made the
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 1: Israelites drink it. Then Moses confronted Aaron, who made weak excuses.
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 1: Moses stood at the entrance to the camp and said,
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 1: in Exodus thirty two twenty six, whoever is for the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: come to me. The Levites rallied to him, and Moses
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: commanded them to go through the camp with swords. About
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 1: three thousand people died that day as punishment for the idolatry.
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 1: The next day, Moses told the people they had committed
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 1: a great sin. He went back up the mountain to
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 1: plead with God for them. Exodus thirty two thirty one
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: thirty two records his prayer. So Moses went back to
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 1: the Lord and said, oh, what a great sin these
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: people have committed. They have made themselves gods of gold.
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  Speaker 1: But now please forgive their sin. But if not, then
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 1: blot me out of the book you have written. Moses
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  Speaker 1: was willing to be blotted out if it meant the
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 1: people could be saved. God forgave them, but said there
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: would still be consequences for their sin. After dealing with
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 1: the sin of the golden calf. Moses received new stone
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 1: tablets with the commandments. Then God gave detailed instructions for
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: building the tabernacle, a portable sanctuary where God would dwell
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 1: among his people. Exodus twenty five eight nine records God's purpose, Then,
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 1: have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 1: dwell among them. Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 1: exactly like the pattern I will show you. God gave
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 1: specific measurements and materials for every part. The people were
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 1: to bring offerings of gold, silver, bronze, fine linen, animal skins,
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 1: acacia wood, oil, spices, and precious stones. Exodus thirty five
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 1: twenty one says, And everyone who was willing and whose
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 1: heart moved him came and brought an offering to the
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 1: Lord for the work. On the tent of meeting. The
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 1: people gave so generously that the craftsmen had to tell
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 1: Moses to stop the offerings. Exodus thirty six five to
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: seven records And they said to Moses, the people are
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 1: bringing more than enough for doing the work the Lord
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 1: commanded to be done. Then Moses gave an order, and
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 1: they sent this word throughout the camp no man or
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 1: woman is to make anything else as an offering for
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 1: the sanctuary. And so the people were restrained from bringing
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 1: more because what they already had was more than enough
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 1: to do all the work. Un deem, God chose Bezelel
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: and Oholiab and filled them with his spirit, giving them
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: skill and ability to do all kinds of crafts. They
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 1: made the tabernacle exactly according to God's design, the tent
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 1: itself with its curtains and coverings, the ark of the covenant,
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 1: the table for the bread of the presents, the golden
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 1: lamp stand, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering,
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 1: the bronze basin, the courtyard, and the priestly garments. When
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 1: everything was finished, Moses inspected the work. Exodus thirty nine
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 1: forty two forty three says the Israelites had done all
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 1: the work just as the Lord had commanded Moses. Moses
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 1: inspected the work and saw that they had done it
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 1: just as the Lord had commanded. So Moses blessed them.
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 1: Then Moses set up the tabernacle. Exodus forty thirty three
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 1: thirty five describes what happened. Then Moses set up the
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: courtyard around the tabernacle and altar, and put up the
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 1: curtain at the entrance to the courtyard. And so Moses
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 1: finished the work. Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting,
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Moses
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 1: could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 1: had settled upon it, and the glory of the Lord
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 1: filled the tabernacle. God's presence filled the tabernacle so powerfully
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  Speaker 1: that even Moses couldn't enter. Exodus forty thirty six, who
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 1: were thirty eight, tells us how God led them in
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 1: all the travels of the Israelites. Whenever the cloud lifted
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 1: from above the tabernacle, they would set out. But if
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 1: the cloud did not lift, they did not set out
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 1: until the day it lifted. So the cloud of the
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 1: Lord was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 1: in the cloud by night, in the sight of all
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 1: the House of Israel. During all their travels, God was
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 1: dwelling among his people, leading them by his presence. The
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 1: Israelites traveled from Mount Sinai to the desert of Paran.
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 1: Then God told Moses to send men to explore Canaan,
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 1: the land he was giving them Moses sent twelve men,
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 1: one leader from each tribe. Numbers thirteen seventeen twenty records
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 1: moses instructions. When Moses sent them to explore Canaan, he said,
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 1: go up through the Negev and on into the hill country.
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  Speaker 1: See what the land is like, and whether the people
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 1: who live there are strong or weak, few or many?
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 1: What kind of land do they live in? Is it
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 1: good or bad? What kind of towns do they live in?
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  Speaker 1: Are they unwalled or fortified? How is the soil, is
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 1: it fertile or poor? Are there trees on it or not?
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  Speaker 1: Do your best to bring back some of the fruit
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 1: of the land. The spies explored the land for forty days.
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 1: When they returned, they brought back a cluster of grapes
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 1: so large it took two men to carry it on
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 1: a pole. Numbers thirteen twenty seven records their report. They
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  Speaker 1: gave Moses this account. We went into the land to
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 1: which you sent us, and it does flow with milk
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 1: and honey. Here is its fruit. The land was everything
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 1: God promised, but then came the bad news. Numbers thirteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight twenty nine continues, But the people who live
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 1: there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large.
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 1: We even saw descendants of Anak there. The Amalekites live
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 1: in the Negev, the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 1: the hill country, and the Canaanites lived near the sea
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 1: and along the Jordan. Ten of the spies gave a
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 1: negative report, spreading fear among the people. Numbers thirteen thirty
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  Speaker 1: one thirty three records their words. But the men who
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 1: had gone up with him said, we can't attack those people.
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: They are stronger than we are. And they spread among
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 1: the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored.
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 1: They said, the land we explored devours those living in it.
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 1: All the people we saw there are of great size.
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 1: We saw the Nephelim there. The descendants of Anak come
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 1: from the Nephalim. We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes,
• 2:17:49
  Speaker 1: and we looked the same to them. Only two spies,
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: Joshua and Caleb, had faith that God would give them victory.
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 1: Caleb tried to encourage the people. Numbers thirteen thirty says,
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  Speaker 1: then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, we
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  Speaker 1: should go up and take possession of the land. For
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  Speaker 1: we can certainly do it, but the people refused to listen.
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  Speaker 1: Numbers fourteen one four records their rebellion. That night, all
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  Speaker 1: the people of the community raised their voices and wept aloud.
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  Speaker 1: All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the
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  Speaker 1: whole assembly said to them, if only we had died
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt or in this desert, why is the Lord
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  Speaker 1: bringing us to this land only to let us fall
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  Speaker 1: by the sword. Our wives and children will be taken
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  Speaker 1: as plunder. Wouldn't it be better for us to go
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  Speaker 1: back to Egypt? And they said to each other, we
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  Speaker 1: should choose a leader and go back to Egypt. Joshua
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  Speaker 1: and Caleb tore their clothes and pleaded with the people.
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  Speaker 1: Numbers fourteen seventy nine records their words. The land we
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  Speaker 1: passed through and explored is exceedingly good. If the Lord
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  Speaker 1: is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land,
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  Speaker 1: a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give
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  Speaker 1: it to us. Only do not rebel against the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and do not be afraid of the people of the land,
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  Speaker 1: because we will swallow them up. Their protection is gone,
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  Speaker 1: but the Lord is with us. Do not be afraid
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  Speaker 1: of them, but the assembly talked about stoning them. Then
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  Speaker 1: God's glory appeared, and God told Moses he would strike
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  Speaker 1: the people with a plague and destroy them. Moses interceded
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  Speaker 1: for the people, and God forgave them, but there were consequences.
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  Speaker 1: Numbers fourteen twenty six to thirty five records God's judgment.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, how long will
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  Speaker 1: this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the
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  Speaker 1: complaints of these grumbling Israelites, so tell them as surely
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  Speaker 1: as I live, declares the Lord. I will do to
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  Speaker 1: you the very things I heard you say. In this desert.
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  Speaker 1: Your bodies will fall. Every one of you twenty years
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  Speaker 1: old or more, who was counted in the census and
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  Speaker 1: who has grumbled against me. Not one of you will
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  Speaker 1: enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make
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  Speaker 1: your home, except Caleb, son of Jeffuna and Joshua son
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  Speaker 1: of Nune. As for your children that you said would
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  Speaker 1: be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the land you have rejected. But you, your bodies
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  Speaker 1: will fall in this desert. Your children will be shepherds
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  Speaker 1: here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness until the
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  Speaker 1: last of your bodies lies in the desert for forty years,
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  Speaker 1: one year for each of the forty days you explored
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  Speaker 1: the land. You will suffer for your sins, and know
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  Speaker 1: what it is like to have me against you. Because
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  Speaker 1: the people refused to trust God, they would wander in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness for forty years until that entire generation died
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  Speaker 1: only their children and would enter the Promised Land. The
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  Speaker 1: Israelites continued wandering in the wilderness. They traveled around Edom
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  Speaker 1: and grew impatient on the way. Numbers twenty one four
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  Speaker 1: five records their complaint. They traveled from Mount how along
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  Speaker 1: the route to the Red Sea to go around Edom,
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  Speaker 1: but the people grew impatient on the way. They spoke
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  Speaker 1: against God and against Moses, and said, why have you
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  Speaker 1: brought us up out of Egypt to die in the desert.
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  Speaker 1: There is no bread, there is no water, and we
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  Speaker 1: detest this miserable food. They complained against God and Moses,
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  Speaker 1: despising the manner God provided daily. This time, God's judgment
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  Speaker 1: was swift and severe. Numbers twenty one till six says,
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  Speaker 1: then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them. They bit
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  Speaker 1: the people, and many Israelites died. The snakes were everywhere
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  Speaker 1: biting people, and many died from the venom. The people
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  Speaker 1: quickly realized their sin and came to Moses. One seven
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  Speaker 1: records their confession. The people came to Moses and said,
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  Speaker 1: we sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you.
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  Speaker 1: Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us.
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  Speaker 1: So Moses prayed for the people. God gave Moses unusual
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  Speaker 1: instructions for healing. Numbers twenty one eight to nine tells
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  Speaker 1: us what God said and what Moses did. The Lord
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  Speaker 1: said to Moses, make a snake and put it up
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  Speaker 1: on a pole. Anyone who is bitten can look at
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  Speaker 1: it and live. So Moses made a bronze snake and
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  Speaker 1: put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was
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  Speaker 1: bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake,
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  Speaker 1: he lived. This was remarkable. Anyone who was bitten by
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  Speaker 1: a venomous snake only needed to look at the bronze
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  Speaker 1: snake on the pole and they would be healed. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't have to do anything complicated, just look and live.
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  Speaker 1: It required faith to believe that simply looking at a
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  Speaker 1: bronze snake would heal them. But though those who looked
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  Speaker 1: in faith were saved, those who refused died from the venom.
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  Speaker 1: The bronze serpent became a picture of salvation through faith,
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  Speaker 1: looking to what God provided and trusting Him for life.
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