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The Story of the Book of Exodus - The Birth of Moses and the Deliverance of God_s People from Egypt · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: Under the scorching sky of ancient Egypt, A story of faith, courage,
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  Speaker 1: and extraordinary miracles was about to unfold. A baby condemned
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  Speaker 1: to death, saved by the waters of the Nile, a
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  Speaker 1: prince who becomes a fugitive, a shepherd who confronts the
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  Speaker 1: most powerful empire on earth. And a God who intervenes
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  Speaker 1: in history with signs and wonders never seen before. This
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  Speaker 1: is the story of the Exodus, the epic journey that
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  Speaker 1: transformed a nation of slaves into a free people guided
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  Speaker 1: by the hand of the Almighty. How did a humble
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  Speaker 1: reed basket floating among crocodiles change the destiny of millions?
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  Speaker 1: What happens when the creator of the universe declares war
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  Speaker 1: on the gods of an empire. Why does this ancient
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  Speaker 1: narrative continue to inspire liberation movements around the world thousands
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  Speaker 1: of years later. Prepare to witness the birth of a
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  Speaker 1: nation through devastating plagues, parted seas, and a deliverance that
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  Speaker 1: echoes through the ages. This is the story of the Exodus,
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  Speaker 1: where the impossible becomes possible when God decides to act.
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  Speaker 1: Everything began when Jacob's family arrived in Egypt fleeing from
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  Speaker 1: the great famine that had struck Canaan, seventy people found
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  Speaker 1: refuge and protection thanks to Joseph, Jacob's son, who had
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  Speaker 1: become Egypt's governor after interpreting Pharaoh's dreams about seven years
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  Speaker 1: of abundance followed by seven years of scarcity. With wisdom
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  Speaker 1: granted by God, Joseph managed Egypt's resources during the years
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  Speaker 1: of prosperity, storing food that would sustain the nation during
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  Speaker 1: the famine. When his brothers came to buy grain, Joseph
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  Speaker 1: revealed his identity and invited the entire family to live
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt in the land of Goshen. There, under Joseph's protection,
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  Speaker 1: the Israelites flourished and multiplied greatly. From just seventy people,
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  Speaker 1: they begin came a vast multitude. The years passed, Joseph
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  Speaker 1: grew old and died at the age of one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and ten, as did all his brothers and their entire generation. However,
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  Speaker 1: the children of Israel continued to grow in number and strength,
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  Speaker 1: filling the land of Egypt with their descendants, just as
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  Speaker 1: God had promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. As time went on,
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  Speaker 1: a new pharaoh rose to power in Egypt, one who
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  Speaker 1: knew nothing of Joseph or how he had saved the
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  Speaker 1: country during the Great Famine. This new ruler watched the
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  Speaker 1: growing Hebrew population with concern. Look, the people of Israel
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  Speaker 1: have become more numerous and stronger than we are, he
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  Speaker 1: told his advisers. Come let us deal wisely with them,
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  Speaker 1: so that they do not multiply further. Otherwise, if war
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  Speaker 1: breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us,
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  Speaker 1: and leave the land. Fear Led to oppression, Pharaoh appointed
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  Speaker 1: taskmas over the Israelites to afflict them with forced labor.
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  Speaker 1: The children of Israel were made to build Pharaoh's supply
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  Speaker 1: cities Pithom and Rameses, carrying stones, mixing clay, molding bricks,
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  Speaker 1: and toiling relentlessly in the fields. The Egyptian overseers were ruthless,
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  Speaker 1: whipping those who failed to meet their work quotas and
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  Speaker 1: treating them with cruelty. Yet the more the Egyptians oppressed
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  Speaker 1: the Israelites, the more they multiplied and spread. This only
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  Speaker 1: deepened the Egyptian's fear of them, leading to even harsher labor,
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  Speaker 1: making the Hebrews lives bitter with relentless servitude. Seeing that
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  Speaker 1: oppression did not slow the Israelites population growth, Pharaoh took
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  Speaker 1: an even more drastic measure. He summoned the Hebrew midwives
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  Speaker 1: Shiprah and Poor and commanded them, when you help the
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew women give birth, watch carefully. If it is a boy,
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  Speaker 1: kill him, but if it is a girl, let her live. However,
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  Speaker 1: the midwives feared God more than they feared Pharaoh. Their
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  Speaker 1: conscience would not allow them to commit such an atrocity,
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  Speaker 1: so they did not follow the king's orders, allowing the
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  Speaker 1: baby boys to live. When Pharaoh questioned them about their disobedience,
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  Speaker 1: they answered, the Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women.
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  Speaker 1: They are strong and give birth before the midwife arrives.
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  Speaker 1: God blessed the midwives for their courage and faithfulness. The
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  Speaker 1: Israelite people continued to grow in number and strength. The
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  Speaker 1: midwives families also prospered, as God granted them descendants because
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  Speaker 1: they had chosen to honor Him above Pharaoh's unjust commands. Frustrated,
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh issued an even more horrific decree. He ordered all
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  Speaker 1: his people to throw every newborn Hebrew boy into the
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  Speaker 1: Nile River, but to let the girls live a death
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  Speaker 1: sentence fell upon Israelite in f turning the Nile, Egypt's
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  Speaker 1: source of life into a place of destruction for the Hebrews.
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  Speaker 1: It was during this time of great tribulation that a
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  Speaker 1: man from the tribe of Levi named Amram married Jokobed,
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  Speaker 1: also from the tribe of Levi. They already had a
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  Speaker 1: daughter named Miriam and a son named Aaron. Now Jokabed
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  Speaker 1: conceived again and gave birth to a son. Looking at
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  Speaker 1: the baby, she saw that he was a beautiful child,
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  Speaker 1: with a special radiance, as if something divine rested upon him.
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  Speaker 1: For three months, they hid the baby at home, defying
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's order, out of love for their child. But the
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  Speaker 1: time came when they could no longer keep him hidden.
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  Speaker 1: His cries could betray them, and Pharaoh's soldiers frequently searched
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew homes. Moved by maternal love and faith, Jokobed came
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  Speaker 1: up with a daring plan. She took a basket made
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  Speaker 1: of reeds and coated it with tar and pitch to
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  Speaker 1: make it waterproof. Placing the baby inside, she laid the
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  Speaker 1: basket among the reeds along the banks of the Nile,
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  Speaker 1: the very river, where so many Hebrew infants had perished
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  Speaker 1: under Pharaoh's decree. Miriam, the baby's sister, stood at a
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  Speaker 1: distance to see what would happen to her little brother.
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  Speaker 1: The family trusted that somehow God would intervene to save
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  Speaker 1: the child, though they did not know how. That very day,
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's daughter went down to the river to bathe accompanied
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  Speaker 1: by her maid servants. Walking along the river bank, suddenly
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  Speaker 1: she noticed the basket among the reeds and sent one
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  Speaker 1: of her servants to retrieve it. Opening the basket, she
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  Speaker 1: found the baby crying, and her heart was moved with compassion.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of the Hebrew boys, said the princess,
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  Speaker 1: immediately recognizing the child's origin. The innocent cries of the
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  Speaker 1: baby touched her heart with compatis, leading her to disobey
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  Speaker 1: the decree of her own father. At that moment, Miriam
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  Speaker 1: approached with courage and cunning. Shall I go and call
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  Speaker 1: a nurse from among the Hebrew women to care for
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  Speaker 1: the boy? For you, go, replied Pharaoh's daughter, unaware that
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  Speaker 1: she was sending the girl to fetch the baby's own mother.
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  Speaker 1: Miriam ran and called Yoshbed, who came quickly. The princess
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  Speaker 1: said to the Hebrew woman, take this child and nurse
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  Speaker 1: him for me, and I will pay you for your work. Thus,
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  Speaker 1: by divine providence, Jokabed received her own son back to
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  Speaker 1: raise him, and was even paid to do so. During
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  Speaker 1: the child's formative early years, she was able to teach
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  Speaker 1: him about the God of their ancestors, about Abraham, Isaac
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  Speaker 1: and Jacob, and about God's promises to their people. When
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  Speaker 1: the boy grew older and no longer needed nursing, Jokhabed
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  Speaker 1: took him to Pharaoh's daughter, who adopted him as her
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  Speaker 1: own son. The princess named him Moses, saying because I
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  Speaker 1: drew him out of the water. In Egyptian, Moses means
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  Speaker 1: sun or born, while in Hebrew it sounds like drawn
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  Speaker 1: out of the water, a name that carried the story
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  Speaker 1: of the baby's miraculous salvation. As the adopted son of
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  Speaker 1: the princess, Moses grew up in Pharaoh's palace, receiving the
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  Speaker 1: best education that Egypt, the most advanced civilization of the time,
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  Speaker 1: had to offer. He was trained in all the sciences
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  Speaker 1: and arts of the Egyptians, learning mathematics, astronomy, literature, philosophy,
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  Speaker 1: and military strategy. Historians believe that The education of Egyptian
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  Speaker 1: princes was rigorous and comprehensive, shaping them into leaders capable
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  Speaker 1: of governing the vast empire. Raised as a prince, Moses
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  Speaker 1: had access to the luxuries of the royal court, the
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  Speaker 1: temple libraries, and the brightest minds in Egypt. He learned
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  Speaker 1: to read and write hieroglyphs, to understand Egypt's complex religious beliefs,
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  Speaker 1: and to master the administrative techniques that kept the kingdom running.
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  Speaker 1: During these years, Moses lived an interesting duality. Externally, he
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  Speaker 1: was an Egyptian prince, but internally he carried the awareness
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  Speaker 1: of his Hebrew heritage and the stories about the God
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  Speaker 1: of his ancestors that his biological mother had told him
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  Speaker 1: during childhood. This duel consciousness would be crucial for his
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  Speaker 1: future role as the deliverer of his people. For forty years,
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  Speaker 1: Moses lived in the palace, growing in wisdom, influence, and power.
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  Speaker 1: The scriptures say that he was educated in all the
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  Speaker 1: wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.
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  Speaker 1: This preparation, though in a pagan environment, was part of
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  Speaker 1: God's plan to shape the man who would one day
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  Speaker 1: confront the very system in which he had been raised.
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  Speaker 1: When Moses turned forty, something changed in his heart. Though
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  Speaker 1: he lived in the luxury and comfort of the palace,
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  Speaker 1: he began to feel an inner calling to better understand
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  Speaker 1: his true people. One day, he decided to go out
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  Speaker 1: and visit his brothers, the children of Israel, and observe
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  Speaker 1: their condition. During this visit, Moses witnessed first hand the
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  Speaker 1: harsh oppression his people endured. He saw the forced labor,
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  Speaker 1: the whippings, the brutality of the Egyptian taskmasters against the
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew slaves. What had once been mere stories told by
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  Speaker 1: his biological mother now became a painful reality before his eyes.
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  Speaker 1: As he walked among the labor camps, he saw something
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  Speaker 1: that would change the course of his life. An Egyptian
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  Speaker 1: overseer mercilessly beating a defenseless Hebrew. The sight stirred deep
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  Speaker 1: indignation in Moses. Looking around and seeing that no one
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  Speaker 1: was near, he acted impulsively to defend his fellow Hebrew.
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  Speaker 1: He struck the Egyptian with enough force to kill him,
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  Speaker 1: then buried the body in the sand, believing his act
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  Speaker 1: would remain a secret. The next day, Moses went out
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  Speaker 1: again and saw two Hebrews fighting he approached to break
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  Speaker 1: up the quarrel, saying to the aggressor, why are you
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  Speaker 1: striking your fellow Hebrew? The man replied with words that
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  Speaker 1: chilled Moses, who made you a ruler and judge over us?
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  Speaker 1: Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian.
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  Speaker 1: Moses then realized that his act was not a secret.
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  Speaker 1: The news had spread among the Hebrews and would soon
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  Speaker 1: reach Pharaoh's ears. Indeed, when Pharaoh heard about it, he
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  Speaker 1: sought to kill Moses, who was then forced to flee
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  Speaker 1: for his life. All the privilege and power he had
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  Speaker 1: as a prince of Egypt could no longer protect him.
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  Speaker 1: His act of defense, though born from identifying with his people,
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  Speaker 1: had been impulsive and outside of God's timing. Moses fled
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  Speaker 1: Egypt toward the land of Midian, a desert region to
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  Speaker 1: the east, crossing the Sinai Peninsula. It was a long
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  Speaker 1: and perilous journey, especially for someone who had lived his
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  Speaker 1: entire life in the comfort of the palace. During the journey,
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  Speaker 1: Moses had time to reflect on his life, his choices,
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  Speaker 1: and the meaning of his identity divided between two worlds.
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  Speaker 1: After days of walking under the scorching sun, Moses finally
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  Speaker 1: arrived in Midian. Exhausted, he sat by a well to
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  Speaker 1: rest and regain his strength. As he sat there, he
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  Speaker 1: saw seven young women approaching with their flocks. They were
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  Speaker 1: the daughters of Ruel, also called Jethro, the priest of Midian.
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  Speaker 1: The women came to draw water and fill the troughs
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  Speaker 1: for their father's sheep. However, some shepherds arrived and began
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  Speaker 1: to drive the women away, trying to take their turn.
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  Speaker 1: Seeing this injustice, Moses stood up, confronted the abusive shepherds
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  Speaker 1: and helped Jethro's daughters, even drawing water for their flocks.
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  Speaker 1: It was the second time Moses reacted to an injustice,
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  Speaker 1: but this time without violence, only with firmness and determination.
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  Speaker 1: When the young women returned home earlier than usual, their
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  Speaker 1: father asked, how is it that you have come back
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  Speaker 1: so soon to day? They replied, an Egyptian rescued us
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  Speaker 1: from the shepherds, and he even drew water for us
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  Speaker 1: and gave it to our flock. Notably, they identified Moses
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  Speaker 1: as an Egyptian, likely because of his clothing and manner
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  Speaker 1: of speech. Jethro then asked, where is he? Why did
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  Speaker 1: you leave the man there call him to have a
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  Speaker 1: meal with us. This simple invitation to a meal would
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  Speaker 1: mark the beginning of a new chapter in Moses's life.
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  Speaker 1: Moses accepted Jethro's invitation and was welcomed into his home
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  Speaker 1: with hospitality. What began as a visit turned into a
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  Speaker 1: permanent stay. Moses agreed to remain with the man, finding
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  Speaker 1: a safe refuge there far from the pharaoh who sought
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  Speaker 1: his life. Over time, the relationship between Moses and Jethro's
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  Speaker 1: family deepened. The priest gave Moses his daughter Zipporah as
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  Speaker 1: a wife. From this union, a son was born, whom
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  Speaker 1: Moses named Gersham, saying I have been a foreigner in
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  Speaker 1: a foreign land. The name reflected moses awareness of his
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  Speaker 1: status as an exile, both from Egypt and from his
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  Speaker 1: people Israel. Moses learned the trade of shepherding, tending to
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  Speaker 1: his father in law's flocks. What a contrast to his
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  Speaker 1: previous life, From the luxury of the palace to the
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  Speaker 1: barren fields of Midian. From prince to shepherd, from commander
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  Speaker 1: to servant. This new occupation required patience, constant vigilance, and
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  Speaker 1: care for often stubborn animals, qualities that would prove essential
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  Speaker 1: for his future role as Israel's leader. For forty years,
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  Speaker 1: Moses lived this simple life in the desert. Time seemed
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  Speaker 1: to drag on, and perhaps Moses wondered if his fate
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  Speaker 1: was truly to spend the rest of his days as
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  Speaker 1: an anonymous shepherd in a foreign land. Little did he
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  Speaker 1: know he was in the school of the wilderness, learning
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  Speaker 1: lessons no palace could teach. Knowledge of the terrain, survival
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  Speaker 1: in harsh conditions, and above all, humility and dependence on God. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt, the pharaoh who had sought to kill Moses died,
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  Speaker 1: but the Israelite situation did not improve. They continued groaning
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  Speaker 1: under the weight of slavery, crying out for deliverance. Their
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  Speaker 1: cry reached God, who remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac
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  Speaker 1: and Jacob. The time was drawing near for God to
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  Speaker 1: act in the liberation of his people, and Moses would
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  Speaker 1: be the chosen instrument. One day, when Moses was eighty
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  Speaker 1: years old, he was tending the flock of his father
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  Speaker 1: in law, Jethro, near Mount Horeb also known as Mount Sinai.
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  Speaker 1: He led the sheep beyond the wilderness, exploring more distant
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  Speaker 1: areas in search of pasture. Suddenly, something extraordinary caught his attention,
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  Speaker 1: a bush that was burning with fire but was not consumed.
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  Speaker 1: The flames danced among its branches and leaves, yet the
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  Speaker 1: plant remained intact. Intrigued by this unusual phenomenon, Moses said
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  Speaker 1: to himself, I will go over and see this great sight.
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  Speaker 1: Why the bush does not burn up. When the Lord
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  Speaker 1: saw that, he turned aside to look. God called to
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  Speaker 1: him from within the bush. Moses Moses, and he answered,
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  Speaker 1: here I am God, continued, do not come any closer.
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  Speaker 1: Take off your sandals, for the place where you are
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  Speaker 1: standing is holy ground. This was a sacred moment, a
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  Speaker 1: direct encounter with the creator of the universe, and the
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  Speaker 1: act of removing his sandals symbolized reverence and acknowledgment of
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  Speaker 1: the holiness of the moment. God identified himself, I am
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  Speaker 1: the God of your Father, the God of Abraham, the
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  Speaker 1: God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses covered
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  Speaker 1: his face, afraid to look at God. Then the Lord
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  Speaker 1: revealed his purpose. I have indeed seen the affliction of
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  Speaker 1: my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry
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  Speaker 1: because of their taskmasters. I know their suffering. So I
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  Speaker 1: have come down to deliver them from the hand of
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  Speaker 1: the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that
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  Speaker 1: land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing
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  Speaker 1: with milk and honey. And then came the specific calling,
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  Speaker 1: now go, I'm sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people,
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  Speaker 1: the Israelite out of Egypt. Moses, who had once been
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  Speaker 1: a confidant prince in Egypt, now hesitated. Who am I
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  Speaker 1: that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites
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  Speaker 1: out of Egypt? He asked, fully aware of his limitations,
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  Speaker 1: God responded with a powerful promise. Certainly, I will be
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  Speaker 1: with you, and he gave Moses a sign, when you
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  Speaker 1: have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship
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  Speaker 1: God on this mountain. Still unsure, Moses asked, suppose I
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  Speaker 1: go to the Israelites and say to them, the God
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  Speaker 1: of your fathers has sent me to you, And they
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  Speaker 1: ask me what is his name? What shall I tell them?
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  Speaker 1: God's answer was profound and revealing, I am who I am.
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  Speaker 1: This is what you are to say to the Israelites.
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  Speaker 1: I Am has sent me to you. And he added,
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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. Even with this divine revelation,
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  Speaker 1: Moses still expressed doubts. What if they do not believe
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  Speaker 1: me or listen to me and say the Lord did
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  Speaker 1: not appear to you. In his patience, God provided Moses
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  Speaker 1: with signs of power to confirm his divine calling. What
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  Speaker 1: is that in your hand, God asked, a staff. Moses replied,
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  Speaker 1: throw it on the ground, the Lord commanded. When Moses
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  Speaker 1: did so, the staff became a serpent, causing him to
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  Speaker 1: jump back in fear. Then God said, reach out your
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  Speaker 1: hand and take it by the tail mah. Moses obeyed,
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  Speaker 1: and the serpent turned back into a staff in his hand.
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  Speaker 1: This would be the first sign to convince the Israelites.
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  Speaker 1: The second sign involved Moses's own hand. God instructed him
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  Speaker 1: to place his hand inside his cloak. When he took
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  Speaker 1: it out, it was left as white as snow. Then
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  Speaker 1: God told him to place it back inside his cloak.
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  Speaker 1: When he removed it again, it was restored like the
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  Speaker 1: rest of his skin. God explained, if they do not
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  Speaker 1: believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they
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  Speaker 1: will believe the second. And if they still do not
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  Speaker 1: believe these two signs or listen to you, take some
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  Speaker 1: water from the nile and pour it on the dry ground.
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  Speaker 1: The water you take from the river will become blood
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. Even with these remarkable signs, Moses still hesitated. Ah, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I am not eloquent, neither before nor since you have
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  Speaker 1: spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.
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  Speaker 1: Some scholars believe Moses may have had a speech impediment,
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  Speaker 1: possibly a stutter. God's response revealed, who is truly the
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  Speaker 1: source of human ability? Who gave man his mouth? Who
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  Speaker 1: makes him mute or death? Seeing or blind? Is it
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  Speaker 1: not I? The Lord? Now go, I will be with
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  Speaker 1: your mouth and will teach you what to say. Yet,
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  Speaker 1: Moses pleaded, O Lord, please send someone else. This response
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  Speaker 1: kindled the Lord's anger, and he then appointed Aaron, Moses's brother,
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  Speaker 1: to be his spokesman. Is not Aaron the Levite, your brother?
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  Speaker 1: I know that he speaks well. He is already on
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  Speaker 1: his way to meet you, and when he sees you,
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  Speaker 1: his heart will rejoice. You shall speak to him and
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  Speaker 1: put the words in his mouth, and I will be
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  Speaker 1: with your mouth and with his, and will teach you
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: what you shall do. After his transformative encounter with God
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: at the Burning Bush, Moses returned to the house of Jethro,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: his father in law, with respect and consideration. He asked
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: for permission to return to Egypt. Let me go back.
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  Speaker 1: I pray you to my brothers in Egypt, to see
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: whether they are still alive. Jethro responded with a blessing.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Go in peace. The Lord said to Moses in Midian,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: go back to Egypt, for all those who sought your
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: life are dead. So Moses took his wife, Zipperah and
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  Speaker 1: his sons, placed them on a donkey, and began his
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: journey back to the land of Egypt, carrying in his
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: hand the staff of God, the very one that had
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: turned into a serpent. During the journey, a mysterious and
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: terrifying incident occurred. The biblical text states that the Lord
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: met him and sought to kill him, possibly referring to
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: a severe illness that threatened Moses' life. The reason appears
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: to be related to the fact that his son had
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: not been circumcised, as required by the covenant God had
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: made with Abraham. Recognizing the issue, Zipporah took a sharp stone,
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  Speaker 1: circumcised her son, and touched Moses's feet with the foreskin, saying,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me. After
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: this act, Moses was spared, demonstrating the importance of fully
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  Speaker 1: obeying divine instructions, especially for one chosen to lead God's
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: covenant people. After this episode, it seems that Moses sent
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Zippora and their sons back to Midian for their safety,
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  Speaker 1: as later in the narrative we see Jethro bringing them
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: back to Moses when the Israelites were already in the wilderness. Meanwhile,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: in Egypt, the Lord said to Aaron, go into the
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: wilderness to meet Moses. Aaron obeyed and met his brother
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: at the Mountain of God, where he embraced him after
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: forty years of separation. Moses told Aaron all the words
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: of the Lord and all the signs he had commanded
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  Speaker 1: him to perform. Upon arriving in Egypt, Moses and Aaron
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  Speaker 1: gathered all the elders of the Israelites erin spoke all
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses and
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: performed the signs before the people. The Israelites believed, and
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: when they heard that the Lord had visited the children
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: of Israel and seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: recognizing that God had finally sent a deliverer to fulfill
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: his promises. After gaining the trust of the elders of Israel,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Moses and Aaron presented themselves before Pharaoh with courage. They
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: delivered the divine message. Thus, says the Lord, the God
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: of Israel, let my people go, so that they may
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: hold a feast to me in the wilderness. Pharaoh's response
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: was arrogant and defiant. Who is the Lord that I
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: To the Egyptian monarch, who considered himself a living deity,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the idea of obeying a foreign god, the God of
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the Hebrew slaves, was absurd. Moses and Aaron tried to explain,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: let us take a three days journey into the wilderness
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  Speaker 1: to offer sacrifices to the Lord, our God, lest he
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: strike us with plague or sword. Not only did Pharaoh
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: refuse the request, but he also increased the oppression of
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: the Israelites. Moses and Aaron, Why do you take the
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: people away from their work. Get back to your labors. Behold,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the people of the land are many, and you make
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: them rest from their burdens. That same day, Pharaoh commanded
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the taskmasters and overseers of the people, no longer give
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: the people straw to make bricks as before. Let them
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: go and gather their own straw. But you shall require
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: of them the same quantity of bricks as before. Do
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: not reduce it at all. This cruel order meant that
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the Israelites now had to search for the straw used
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: to reinforce the bricks without any reduction in their daily
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: production quota. The taskmasters pressured them, saying, complete your work,
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  Speaker 1: your dayly task, just as when there was straw. The
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  Speaker 1: Israelite officers, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had placed over them, were
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: beaten because they could not meet the impossible quotas they
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  Speaker 1: complained to Pharaoh, why do you treat your servants this way?
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  Speaker 1: No straw is given to your servants, Yet we are
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: told make bricks and behold your servants are beaten, but
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  Speaker 1: the fault is with your own people. Pharaoh answered with contempt.
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  Speaker 1: You are idle. You are idle. That is why you say,
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  Speaker 1: let us go and sacrifice to the Lord. Now go
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: and work. No straw will be given to you, but
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: you must deliver the full quota of bricks. The Israelite officers,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: leaving Pharaoh's presence found Moses and Aaron waiting for them,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: and they blamed them for the worsening of their situation.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: May the Lord look upon you and judge, because you
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: have made us a stench in the sight of Pharaoh
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: and his servants putting a sword in their hands to
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  Speaker 1: kill us. Shaken, Moses turned to the Lord and lamented, Lord,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: why have you brought trouble upon this people? Why did
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: you send me? Ever since I went to Pharaoh to
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: speak in your name, he has mistreated this people, and
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: you have not delivered your people at all. The Lord
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: responded to Moses with a renewal of his promise. Now
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, For
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: with a mighty hand he will let them go, and
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: with a mighty hand he will drive them out of
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: his land. God was only beginning his work, and these
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: initial hardships were part of the process that would culminate
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  Speaker 1: in a glorious deliverance. After renewing his promise of deliverance,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the Lord instructed Moses to meet Pharaoh the next morning.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: When he went out to the river. It was common
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: for Pharaoh's to perform mourning rituals at the Nile, a
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: river considered sacred in Egyptian religion. Moses and Aaron stood
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: by the river bank, and when Pharaoh appeared, they once
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: again delivered the divine message. The Lord, the God of
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you, let
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: my people go, so that they may serve me in
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the wilderness. But until now you have refused to listen.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Thus says the Lord. By this you shall know that
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I am the Lord. Behold, with this staff in my hand,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I will strike the waters of the river, and they
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: shall turn into blood. Before Pharaoh and his servants, Aaron
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: raised the staff and struck the waters of the Nile. Instantly,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: all the waters of the river turned into blood. The
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: fish in the river died, and the river smelled so
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: foul that the Egyptians could not drink from it. Blood
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: spread throughout all the land of Egypt, affecting not only
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: the main river, but also the canals, ponds, and even
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: water stored in wooden and stone vessels. This first play
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: directly struck against the God Happy, the deity of the Nile,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: essential to Egyptian life. The river, once worshiped as a
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  Speaker 1: source of life, became a source of death and stench.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: The Nile, which had been an instrument of death for
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Hebrew infants, was now symbolically covered in blood. However, the
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: magicians of Egypt managed to replicate the same feat with
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: their magical arts. This hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he refused
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: to listen to Moses and Aaron. Just as the Lord
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: had predicted, Pharaoh returned to his palace, seemingly indifferent to
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the suffering caused by the plague. For a full seven days,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Egypt endured a lack of drinking water, while Pharaoh persisted
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: in his stubbornness. After the seven days of the first plague,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: the Lord said to Moses, go to Pharaoh and say
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: to him, thus says the Lord, let my people go,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: so that they may. If you refuse to let them go,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: I will plague all your land with frogs. When Pharaoh refused.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Once more, Aaron, following divine instructions, stretched out his hand
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  Speaker 1: with the staff over the waters of Egypt. Immediately, a
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: swarm of frogs emerged from the river and invaded the land.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: The frogs entered Pharaoh's palace, his servants, houses, and all
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the homes of the Egyptian people. They infested bedrooms, climbed
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  Speaker 1: onto beds, invaded the houses of nobles and commoners alike,
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  Speaker 1: and even filled ovens and kneading bowls. Once again, the
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Egyptian magicians attempted to demonstrate their power, managing to summon
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: more frogs upon the land with their magic, but instead
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: of solving the problem, they only made it worse. The
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: situation became so unbearable that Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: plead with the Lord to remove the frogs from me
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: and my people, and I will let the people go
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: so that they may sacrifice to the Lord. Moses, demonstrating
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  Speaker 1: that true power belonged to the God of Israel, replied,
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  Speaker 1: you may have the honor over me. When shall I
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: plead for you, for your servants and for your people,
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  Speaker 1: to remove the frogs from you and your houses, so
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: that they remain only in the river. Pharaoh answered tomorrow,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Moses said, let it be according to your word, so
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  Speaker 1: that you may know that there is no one like
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the Lord, our God. The frogs would be removed from
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  Speaker 1: the houses, courtyards, and fields, leaving only those in the river.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: As soon as Moses left Pharaoh's presence, he cried out
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: to the Lord concerning the frogs he had brought upon Pharaoh.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: The Lord did as Moses had asked. The frogs died
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: in the houses, courtyards, and fields. The Egyptians gathered them
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: into heaps, and the land stank because of the dead frogs.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: It was a pestilent reminder of the power of the
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: God of Israel. However, when Pharaoh saw that relief had come,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: he hardened his heart and refused to listen to Moses
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: and Aaron. Just as the Lord had said, without any
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: further warning to Pharaoh, God commanded Moses, tell Arin, stretch
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: out your staff and strike the dust of the ground,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: so that it may turn into lice throughout the land
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: of Egypt. Aaron obeyed, stretching out his hand with the
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: staff and striking the dust of the earth. The dust
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: of the ground transformed into tiny insects, which scholars identify
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: as life's flees or gnats. These insects attacked both men
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: and animals, covering them and causing irritation and discomfort. The
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: dust of the land throughout Egypt became lice. The magicians
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: tried to produce lice with their magical arts, but this
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: time they failed. There failure was significant, for the first time,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: they recognized their limitations before divine power. They admitted to Pharaoh,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: this is the finger of God. It was an acknowledgment
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: that they were witnessing something beyond human capabilities or the
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: forces they controlled through their magical practices. Despite the testimony
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: of his own magicians, Pharaoh's heart remained hardened, and he
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: refused to listen to Moses and Aaron, Just as the
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Lord had said, the Egyptian ruler's stubbornness was a deliberate
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: rejection of the truth that stood before his eyes. The
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Fourth Plague marked the beginning of a clear distinction between
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: the Egyptians and the Israelites. The Lord said to Moses,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh as
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: he goes to the water, and say to him. Thus
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: says the Lord, let my people go so that they
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: may serve me. But if you do not let my
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon you,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: upon your servants, upon your people, and into your houses.
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  Speaker 1: The houses of the Egyptians will be filled with swarms
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: of flies, as well as the ground they walk on.
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  Speaker 1: And God added something new. On that day, I will
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: so that no swarms of flies shall be there, so
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: that you may know that I am the Lord. In
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: the midst of the land. I will make a distinction
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: between my people and your people. Tomorrow this sign shall
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: take place when Pharaoh once again refused to let the
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: people go. The Lord fulfilled his word. Great swarms of
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: flies entered Pharaoh's palace, the houses of his servants, and
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: all of Egypt. The land was ravaged by the flies.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: These were not ordinary flies, but likely a biting fly
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: or beetle that caused great suffering. This time, Pharaoh began
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: to partially concede go sacrifice to your God within this land.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: It was a limited concession, allowing worship but not departure
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: from Egypt. Moses rejected this proposal. It is not right
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: to do so. For we would be sacrificing to the
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  Speaker 1: Lord our God, that which is an abomination to the Egyptians.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: If we sacrifice what is detestable to the Egyptians before
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: their eyes, will they not stone us. Let us go
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: three days journey into the wilderness, so that we may
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: sacrifice to the Lord, our God as he commands us.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: The Pharaoh relented a little more. I will let you
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: go to sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: Only do not go too far, and pray for me
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: as well. Moses agreed to pray for the end of
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: the plague. As soon as I leave your presence, I
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: will pray to the Lord, and tomorrow the swarms of
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: flies will depart from Pharaoh, his servants, and his people. Only.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Let Pharaoh no longer act deceitfully by refusing to let
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: the people go to sacrifice to the Lord. The Lord
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: heard Moses prayer and remove the swarms of flies. Not
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: a single one remained. Yet once again Pharaoh hardened his
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: heart and did not let the people go, breaking his promise.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Faced with Pharaoh's continued resistance, the Lord sent Moses with
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: a new warning, go to Pharaoh and say to him thus,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews. Let my
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: people go so that they may serve me. But if
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: you refuse to let them go and continue to hold
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: them back, behold, the hand of the Lord will be
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: upon your live stock in the field, upon the horses, donkeys, camels, cattle,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: and sheep, a severe plague will come upon them. Once again,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: God emphasize the distinction between Israel and Egypt. The Lord
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: will make a distinction between the live stock of Israel
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: and the live stock of Egypt. None belonging to the
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: children of Israel will die, and God set a specific
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  Speaker 1: time to morrow. The Lord will do this in the land.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: The next day, the Lord fulfilled his word. A devastating
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: disease struck the live stock of the Egyptians, killing horses, donkeys, camels, cattle,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: and sheep. But among the live stock of the Israelites,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: not one died. Pharaoh sent men to investigate and confirmed
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  Speaker 1: that indeed, not a single animal belonging to the Israelites
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: had perished. Yet still his heart remained hardened, and he
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: did not let the people go. This plague affected not
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: only Egypt's economy, but also its religion, as many animals
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: were considered sacred, such as the APIs bull and the
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: cow Hathor. The death of these animals struck a blow
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: against the Egyptian deities. Without prior warning to Pharaoh, the
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Lord commanded Moses and Aaron take handfuls of soot from
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: the furnace, and Moses shall ski satter it toward the
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: sky in Pharaoh's sight. It will become fine dust over
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: all the land of Egypt and will cause vestering boils
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: to break out on people and animals throughout Egypt. They obeyed,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: taking soot from the furnace and standing before Pharaoh. Moses
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: scattered it into the air, and it became boils that
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: broke out in sores on both people and animals. The
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: for they were afflicted, just like all the Egyptians. The
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: text indicates that from this plague onward, God began to
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: actively harden Pharaoh's heart. The Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart and
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: he would not listen to them, just as the Lord
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: had told Moses. This does not mean that God controlled
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's will, but that after repeatedly rejecting the truth of
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: his own accord, God allowed the Egyptian ruler to continue
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: down his path of rebellion. The Lord sent mo Is
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: early in the morning to meet Pharaoh with an even
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: more urgent message. Thus, says the Lord, the God of
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: the Hebrews, let my people go so that they may
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: serve me. For this time, I will send all my
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: plagues upon your heart, upon your servants, and upon your people,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: so that you may know that there is no one
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: like me in all the earth. God revealed to Moses
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: the purpose behind all these plagues. For this very reason,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: I have raised you up to show you my power
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: It was not just a demonstration for Egypt, but for
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: all nations that the God of Israel was the one
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: true God, sovereign over all creation. The warning was clear
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: and merciful. Now send and gather your live stock and
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: all that you have in the field. Every man and
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: beast that remains in the field and is not brought
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: indoors will be struck by hail and will die this
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: war aloud. Those Egyptians who feared the word of the
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Lord to be spared. Some of Pharaoh's servants feared the
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: word of the Lord and brought their servants and livestock indoors. Others, however,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: paid no attention to the Lord's warning and left their
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: servants and livestock in the fields. When Moses, following the
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Lord's command, stretched out his staff toward the sky, the
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire came down to
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: the earth. The Lord made hail rain down upon the
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: land of Egypt. There was hail and fire mixed with it,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: so severe that nothing like it had ever occurred in
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: all of Egypt since it became a nation. The hail
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: struck everything in the fields, both people and animals that
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: had not been brought indoors. It struck every plant and
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: shattered every tree. Only in the land of Goshen, where
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: the Israelites lived, was there no hail. It was an
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: extraordinary display of God's control over the forces of nature.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: This time Pharaoh acknowledged his wrongdoing. I have sinned this time.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: The Lord is righteous, and my people and I are wicked.
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  Speaker 1: Plead with the Lord, for there have been enough thunder
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: and hail. I will let you go, and you shall
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: not remain here any longer. But his confession was driven
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: by fear, not true repentance. Moses replied, as soon as
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: I leave the city, I will stretch out my hands
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: to the Lord. The thunder will cease and there will
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: be no more hail, so that you may know that
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: the earth belongs to the Lord. But as for you
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: and your servants, I know that you still do not
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: fear the Lord God. When Moses prayed, the thunder and
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: hail stopped, and the rain no longer fell on the land.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: But when Pharaoh saw that the rain, hail, and thunder
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: had ceased, he sinned yet again and hardened his heart
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: along with his servants. Pharaoh's heart remained unyielding, and he
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: would not let the Israelites go, just as the Lord
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: had said through Moses. Then the Lord said to Moses,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: the hearts of his servants, so that I may show
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: these signs of mine among them, and so that you
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  Speaker 1: may tell your children and your grandchildren how I dealt
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  Speaker 1: powerfully with Egypt, and the signs I performed among them,
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  Speaker 1: that you may know that I am the Lord. Moses
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  Speaker 1: and Aaron delivered the latest warning to Pharaoh. How long
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  Speaker 1: will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my
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  Speaker 1: people go so that they may serve me. For if
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  Speaker 1: you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow, I
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  Speaker 1: will bring locusts into your territory. They will cover the
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  Speaker 1: face of the land so that no one will be
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  Speaker 1: able to see the ground. They will devour what remains
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  Speaker 1: after the hail, whatever is left to you, and they
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  Speaker 1: will consume every tree that grows in your fields. They
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  Speaker 1: will fill your houses, the houses of all your servants,
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  Speaker 1: and the houses of all the Egyptians, something neither your
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  Speaker 1: fathers nor your forefathers have ever seen from the day
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  Speaker 1: they came into this land until now. This warning alarmed
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  Speaker 1: even Pharaoh's advisers, who began urging their ruler to relent.
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  Speaker 1: How long will this man be a snare to us?
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  Speaker 1: Let the men go so they may serve the Lord
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  Speaker 1: their god. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is ruined?
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and made a partial concession.
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  Speaker 1: Go serve the Lord your God. But who exactly will go?
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  Speaker 1: Moses replied, we will go with our young and our old,
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  Speaker 1: with our sons and our daughters, with our sheep and
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  Speaker 1: our cattle. For we must celebrate a feast to the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh responded with irony, may the Lord be with you
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  Speaker 1: as I let you and your little ones go. Clearly
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  Speaker 1: you have evil intentions. Then he made a counter offer. No,
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  Speaker 1: it will not be so. Only the men may go
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  Speaker 1: and serve the Lord, for that is what you asked for,
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  Speaker 1: and he drove them out of his presence. Since Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: refused to yield, the Lord said to Moses, stretch out
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  Speaker 1: your hand over Egypt, so that locusts may come upon
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  Speaker 1: the land and devour everything left by the hail. Moses
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  Speaker 1: stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the Lord brought
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  Speaker 1: an east wind upon the land all that day and
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  Speaker 1: all that night. By morning, the east wind had brought
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  Speaker 1: the locusts. The locusts swarmed over all of Egypt and
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  Speaker 1: settled in every part of the land. They were extremely numerous.
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  Speaker 1: Never before had there been so many, nor would there
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  Speaker 1: ever be again. They covered the surface of the entire land,
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  Speaker 1: darkening it, and they devoured every plant and every fruit
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  Speaker 1: that had survived the hail. Nothing green remained on any
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  Speaker 1: tree or plant in the land of Egypt. Pharaoh quickly
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  Speaker 1: summoned Moses and Aaron and confessed, I have sinned against
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  Speaker 1: the Lord your God, and against you. Now, please forgive
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  Speaker 1: my sin just this once, and plead with the Lord
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  Speaker 1: your God to remove this death from me. Moses left
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's presence and prayed to the Lord. The Lord changed
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  Speaker 1: the wind to a powerful west wind, which carried the
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  Speaker 1: locusts away and hurled them into the Red Sea. Not
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  Speaker 1: a single locust remained in Egypt. However, once again the
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  Speaker 1: Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart and he refused to let the
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  Speaker 1: Israelites go. The pattern continued, plague, plea for relief, Pharaoh's promise,
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  Speaker 1: Moses prayer, relief, and broken promise. Without warning Pharaoh, the
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  Speaker 1: Lord said to Moses, stretch out your hand toward the sky,
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  Speaker 1: so that darkness will spread over Egypt, darkness that can
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  Speaker 1: be felt. Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky,
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  Speaker 1: and thick darkness covered Egypt for three days. No one
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  Speaker 1: could see anyone else or move from their place for
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  Speaker 1: three days, but all the Israelites had light in their dwellings.
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  Speaker 1: This supernatural darkness directly challenged Ra, the sun god, one
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt's most revered deities. The darkness was so dense
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  Speaker 1: that it could be felt, creating an oppressive and terrifying atmosphere.
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  Speaker 1: For three days, all activity in Egypt ceased, while the
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  Speaker 1: Israelites in Goshen continued their lives as usual, enjoying light
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  Speaker 1: in their homes. Pharaoh summoned Moses and made yet another
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  Speaker 1: partial offer, go serve the Lord. Only leave behind your
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  Speaker 1: flocks and herds. Even your little ones, may go with you.
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  Speaker 1: This was an attempt to hold the Israelites live stock
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  Speaker 1: as leverage for their return. Moses firmly rejected the offer.
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  Speaker 1: You must also let us take sacrifices and burnt offerings
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  Speaker 1: to present to the Lord our God. Our life live
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  Speaker 1: stock must go with us. Not a hoof shall be
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  Speaker 1: left behind, for we must use some of them to
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  Speaker 1: serve the Lord, our God, and we will not know
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  Speaker 1: how we are to serve the Lord until we arrive there.
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  Speaker 1: But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he refused to
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  Speaker 1: let them go. Pharaoh said to Moses in a threatening tone,
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  Speaker 1: get away from me. Beware, do not appear before me again,
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  Speaker 1: for on the day you see my face, you will die.
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  Speaker 1: Moses replied, you have spoken correctly. I will never see
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  Speaker 1: your face again. Before leaving Pharaoh's presence, Moses announced the
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  Speaker 1: tenth and most dreadful plague. This is what the Lord says.
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  Speaker 1: At midnight, I will go throughout Egypt. Every first born
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt will die, from the first born of Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: who sits on his throne, to the first born of
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  Speaker 1: the servant girl behind the millstones, and even the first
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  Speaker 1: born of the live stock. There will be a great
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  Speaker 1: cry throughout Egypt, such as never been heard before and
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  Speaker 1: will never be heard again. Moses once again emphasized the
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  Speaker 1: distinction between the Egyptians and the Israelites. But among all
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  Speaker 1: the Israelites, not even a dog will bark at a
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  Speaker 1: person or an animal. Then you will know that the
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  Speaker 1: Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. He added,
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  Speaker 1: all these officials of yours will come down to me,
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  Speaker 1: bowing before me and saying, go you and all the
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  Speaker 1: people who follow you. After that I will leave, and
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  Speaker 1: Moses left Pharaoh's presence burning with anger. The Lord had
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  Speaker 1: instructed Moses to have the Israelites ask their Egyptian neighbors
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  Speaker 1: for silver and gold items. Tell the people that every
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  Speaker 1: man is to ask his neighbor and every woman her
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  Speaker 1: neighbor for silver and gold ornaments. Ooh. The Lord had
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  Speaker 1: given the Israelites favor in the eyes of the Egyptians,
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  Speaker 1: and Moses himself was highly regarded in Egypt, both by
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  Speaker 1: pharaoh officials and by the people. Then the Lord gave
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  Speaker 1: Moses and Arron detailed instructions for the institution of the Passover,
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  Speaker 1: the commemoration of their deliverance, to be observed by all
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  Speaker 1: future generations. This month shall be for you the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of months. It shall be the first month of the
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  Speaker 1: year for you. Each family was to choose a lamb
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  Speaker 1: or a young goat on the tenth day of the month,
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  Speaker 1: an unblemished one year old male. If the family was
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  Speaker 1: too small to eat an entire lamb, they were to
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  Speaker 1: share it with a neighboring family. The animal was to
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  Speaker 1: be kept until the fourteenth day, when the entire congregation
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  Speaker 1: of Israel would slaughter it. At twilight. They were to
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  Speaker 1: take the blood and apply it to the two doorposts
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  Speaker 1: and the lintel of the houses where they ate the animal.
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  Speaker 1: That same night, they were to eat the roasted meat
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  Speaker 1: along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. They were not
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  Speaker 1: to eat anything raw or boiled in water, but everything
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  Speaker 1: had to be roasted over the fire. Its head legs
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  Speaker 1: and inner organs. Nothing was to be left until morning.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever remained had to be burned. The manner in which
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  Speaker 1: they ate was also significant. This is how you shall
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  Speaker 1: eat it. With your belt fastened, sandals on your feet,
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  Speaker 1: and staff in hand. You shall eat it in haste.
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  Speaker 1: It is the Lord's passover. Lie. It was a meal
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  Speaker 1: taken in the posture of those ready to depart immediately.
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  Speaker 1: God explained the meaning of this night, for on that
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  Speaker 1: night I will pass through the land of Egypt and
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  Speaker 1: strike down every first born in the land of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: both human and animal. I will execute judgment against all
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  Speaker 1: the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. The blood
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  Speaker 1: will be a sign for you on the houses where
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  Speaker 1: you are. When I see the blood, I will pass
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  Speaker 1: over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I
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  Speaker 1: strike the land of Egypt. This day was to be
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  Speaker 1: celebrated as a feast to the Lord for all generations.
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  Speaker 1: As a perpetual statute, for seven days, they were to
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  Speaker 1: eat unleavened bread. On the first day, they were to
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  Speaker 1: remove all leaven from their houses, for whoever ate leavened
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  Speaker 1: bread from the first to the seventh day would be
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  Speaker 1: cut off from Israel. Moses gathered all the elders of
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  Speaker 1: Israel and relaid these instructions, adding, take a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: h hissop, dip it in the blood in the basin,
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  Speaker 1: and apply it to the lintel and the two doorposts.
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  Speaker 1: With the blood in the basin, none of you shall
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  Speaker 1: go out of the door of his house until morning,
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  Speaker 1: for the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians.
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  Speaker 1: But when he sees the blood on the lintel and
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  Speaker 1: the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over that door
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  Speaker 1: and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: to strike you down. The Israelites bowed down and worshiped,
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  Speaker 1: then went and did as the Lord had commanded Moses
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  Speaker 1: and Aaron. Their obedience demonstrated their faith and trust in
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  Speaker 1: God's instructions even before they saw their effectiveness. At midnight,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord struck down all the first born in the
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  Speaker 1: land of Egypt, from the first born of Pharaoh who
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  Speaker 1: sat on his throne, to the first born of the
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  Speaker 1: prisoner in the dungeon, and all the first born of
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  Speaker 1: the live stock. Not a single Egyptian household was spared
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  Speaker 1: from this devastating plague. Pharaoh rose during the night. He
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  Speaker 1: all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was
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  Speaker 1: a great cry throughout Egypt, for there was no house
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  Speaker 1: without someone dead. What Moses had prophesied happened exactly as foretold.
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  Speaker 1: The blow was so severe that Pharaoh still during the night,
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  Speaker 1: summoned Moses and Aaron and said, rise up, go out
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  Speaker 1: from among my people, both you and the children of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Go serve the Lord as you have said, Take your
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  Speaker 1: flocks and herds as you have said, and go and
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  Speaker 1: bless me also. The Egyptians urged the people to leave quickly, saying,
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  Speaker 1: we will all die. Resistance had turned into desperation. After
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  Speaker 1: trying to keep the Israelites for so long, now the
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  Speaker 1: Egyptians were desperate for them to leave, fearing that their
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  Speaker 1: continued presence would bring even greater disaster. The people took
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  Speaker 1: their dough before it was leavened, wrapped it in their cloaks,
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  Speaker 1: and carried it on their shoulders. The Israelites followed moses
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  Speaker 1: instructions and asked the Egyptians for silver and gold objects,
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  Speaker 1: as well as clothing. The Lord made the Egyptians favorably
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  Speaker 1: disposed toward them, so they gave them what they requested. Thus,
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  Speaker 1: the Israelites plundered the Egyptians, taking with them great wealth
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: a symbolic compensation for century of unpaid slave labor. The
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  Speaker 1: Israelites set out from Rameses to Succoth about six hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand men on foot, not counting children. A mixed multitude
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  Speaker 1: also went with them, along with large herds of sheep
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  Speaker 1: and cattle. They baked unleavened bread from the dough they
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  Speaker 1: had brought out of Egypt, for it had not risen,
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  Speaker 1: as they had been driven out of Egypt in haste
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  Speaker 1: and had no time to prepare food. The time that
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  Speaker 1: the Israelites had lived in Egypt was four hundred and
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: thirty years, and at the end of four hundred thirty years,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: on that very day, all the Lord's hosts went out
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  Speaker 1: from the land of Egypt. This was a night of
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: vigil for the Lord to bring them out of the
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: land of Egypt. That same night is to be kept
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  Speaker 1: as a knight of vigil by all the children of
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  Speaker 1: Israel for generations to come. When Pharaoh let the people go,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: God did not lead them through the land of the Philistines,
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  Speaker 1: though it was a shorter route. He said, lest the
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  Speaker 1: people change their minds when they see war and returned
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  Speaker 1: to Egypt. Instead, God led them through the wilderness toward
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sea. The Israelites went up in orderly ranks
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  Speaker 1: out of the land of Egypt. Moses took with him
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  Speaker 1: the bones of Joseph, who had made the Israelites swear
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  Speaker 1: an oath, saying, surely God will visit you, and you
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  Speaker 1: shall carry my bones up from here with you. They
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  Speaker 1: set out from Succoth and camped at Etham, on the
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  Speaker 1: edge of the wilderness. The Lord went before them in
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  Speaker 1: a pillar of cloud by day to guide them on
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  Speaker 1: their way, and in a pillar of fire by night
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: to give them light, so that they could travel by
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  Speaker 1: day and night. The pillar of cloud by day and
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: the pillar of fire by night never left its place
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: in front of the people. It was a constant and
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: visible sign of divine presence and protection. Then the Lord
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  Speaker 1: said to Moses, tell the children of Israel to turn
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  Speaker 1: back and camp in front of Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol
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  Speaker 1: and the sea opposite Baal Zephon. You shall encamp by
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  Speaker 1: the sea. Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, they are
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  Speaker 1: wandering in confusion. The wilderness has trapped them. I will
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  Speaker 1: harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them. But I
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  Speaker 1: will gain glory for myself through Pharaoh and all his army,
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  Speaker 1: and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And so they did. When the King of Egypt was
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: informed that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials
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  Speaker 1: had a change of heart regarding the people and said,
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: why have we done this? Letting Israel go so they
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  Speaker 1: would no longer serve us. So Pharaoh prepared his chariot
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  Speaker 1: and took his people with him. He took six hundred
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  Speaker 1: of the best chariots, along with all the other chariots
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: of Egypt, with officers over all of them. The Lord
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: hardened the heart of Pharaoh, King of Egypt, and he
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: pursued the children of Israel, who, however, had left with
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  Speaker 1: a mighty hand. The Egyptians pursued them all of Pharaoh's
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  Speaker 1: horses and chariots, his horsemen, and his army, and overtook
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  Speaker 1: them as they camped by the sea near pi Hahiroth,
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  Speaker 1: across from Balzephon. As Pharaoh approached, the children of Israel
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  Speaker 1: lifted their eyes and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them.
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  Speaker 1: They were terrified and cried out to the Lord. They
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  Speaker 1: said to Moses, was it because there were no graves
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt that you brought us out to die in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness. What have you done to us by bringing
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: us out of Egypt. Didn't we say to you in Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: leave us alone, let us serve the Egyptians. It would
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: to die in the wilderness. But Moses answered the people
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  Speaker 1: with words of faith and courage. Do not be afraid,
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: stand firm and see the deliverance. The Lord will bring
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  Speaker 1: you to day. For the Egyptians you see to day
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: you will never see again. The Lord will fight for you.
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  Speaker 1: You need only to be still. Then, the Lord said
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: to Moses, why do you cry out to me? Tell
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  Speaker 1: the children of Israel to move forward? Lift your staff,
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  Speaker 1: stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it
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  Speaker 1: so that the children of Israel may go through the
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  Speaker 1: sea on dry ground. I will harden the hearts of
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  Speaker 1: the Egyptians, so they will go in after them, and
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  Speaker 1: I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army,
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  Speaker 1: through his chariots and horsemen. The Egyptians will know that
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  Speaker 1: I am the Lord when I gain glory through Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 1: his chariots and his horsemen. Then the Angel of God,
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  Speaker 1: who had been going ahead of Israel's army, moved and
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  Speaker 1: went behind them. The Pillar of Cloud also moved from
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: in front of them and stood behind them, coming between
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  Speaker 1: the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: Throughout the night, the cloud brought darkness to one side
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  Speaker 1: and light to the other, so that neither army came
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  Speaker 1: near the other. All night long. Moses stretched out his
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  Speaker 1: hand over the sea, and throughout the night the Lord
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  Speaker 1: drove the sea back with a strong east wind and
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  Speaker 1: turned it into dry land. The waters were divided. The
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  Speaker 1: children of Israel went through the sea on dry ground,
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  Speaker 1: with the waters forming a wall for them on their
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  Speaker 1: right and on their left. The Egyptians pursued them, and
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  Speaker 1: all Pharaoh's horses, 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. He jammed the
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Egyptians said, let's flee from Israel. The Lord
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  Speaker 1: is fighting for them against Egypt. Then the Lord said
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  Speaker 1: to Moses, stretch out your hand over the sea, so
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians, their
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  Speaker 1: chariots and their horsemen. Moses stretched out his hand over
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  Speaker 1: the sea, and at day the sea returned to its place.
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  Speaker 1: The Egyptians tried to flee, but the lords swept them
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  Speaker 1: into the sea. The waters flowed back and covered the chariots,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: the horsemen, and the entire army of Pharaoh that had
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: followed Israel into the sea. Not one of them survived,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: but the children of Israel walked through the sea on
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  Speaker 1: dry ground, with the waters forming a wall on their
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: right and on their left. That day, the Lord saved
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: the Egyptians lying dead on the shore. When Israel saw
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: the great power the Lord had displayed against the Egyptians,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: the people feared the Lord and put their trust in
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: him and in Moses his servant. Then Moses and the
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: children of Israel sang this song to the Lord. I
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously.
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  Speaker 1: He has hurled the horse and its rider into the sea.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord is my strength and my song. He has
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: become my salvation. He is my God, and I will
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: The song continued, celebrating the power of God and his
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: victory over the Egyptians, vividly describing how the blast of
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: his nostrils piled up the waters and how the enemies
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: sank like lead in the depths of the sea. It
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: ended with the vision of the people being led to
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  Speaker 1: the promised land, to the place prepared by God for
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  Speaker 1: his dwelling, to the sanctuary established by the hands of
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: the Lord, proclaiming the Lord will reign forever and ever.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: Then Miriam, the prophetess, Aaron's sister, took a tambourine in
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  Speaker 1: her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: and dancing, and Miriam sang back to them, sing to
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has hurled
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: the horse and its rider into the sea. Thus ended
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: the first day age of Israel's journey freed from slavery
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: in Egypt through signs and wonders. Having passed through the
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: sea by divine miracle, they were now ready to begin
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  Speaker 1: their journey through the wilderness toward the promised Land. The
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  Speaker 1: story of the Exodus would forever stand as a testimony
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  Speaker 1: to the power and faithfulness of God, who keeps his
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  Speaker 1: promises and delivers his people with a mighty hand and
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  Speaker 1: an outstretched arm. Dear viewer, the story of the Exodus
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  Speaker 1: reveals much more than just historical events. It shows us
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  Speaker 1: a God who hears the cries of the oppressed, who
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  Speaker 1: remembers his promises, and who acts powerfully to deliver his people.
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  Speaker 1: Just as God saw the suffering of the Israelites in Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: he also sees your struggles today. Just as he sent Moses,
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  Speaker 1: God continues to send deliverance to those who call upon him.
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  Speaker 1: This narrative of slavery and freedom, of oppression and redemption
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  Speaker 1: resonates deeply in our world today, where so many still
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  Speaker 1: seek their own promised land, a place of peace, purpose,
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  Speaker 1: and spiritual freedom. May we, like Moses, be willing to
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  Speaker 1: be instruments in God's hands, bringing hope and deliverance to
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  Speaker 1: those around us. If this video has touched your heart
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  Speaker 1: and deepened your understanding of the Book of Exodus, don't
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  Speaker 1: family who need to know more about the God who delivers,
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  Speaker 1: Because just as the waters of the Red Sea parted
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  Speaker 1: for Israel, God's word continues to open paths of hope
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  Speaker 1: in people's lives. Leave a comment below sharing which part
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  Speaker 1: of this story impacted your life the most and how
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  Speaker 1: God has been your personal deliverer. And remember us. As
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  Speaker 1: God was faithful to his promises to Israel, he remains
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  Speaker 1: faithful to you in the challenges of your own journey
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  Speaker 1: until our next time in the Scriptures. May the God
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  Speaker 1: of Moses, the God who parts, sees, and tears down walls,
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  Speaker 1: continue to guide your steps with pillars of cloud and
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  Speaker 1: fire throughout life's journey. Amen.