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Thought from today’s Bible reading from Exodus 16-18. It did not take long for the Israelites who had seen the destruction of Pharaoh and his army to begin murmuring and complaining. “The whole congregation of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. The sons of Israel said to them, ‘Would [...]
Thought from today’s Bible reading from Exodus 7-9. After suffering through several plagues, Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let the Israelites go into the wilderness to worship God. After the sixth plague, God told Moses to deliver a message to Pharaoh, reminding him of his place before the Lord. “Thus says the Lord, the God of [...]
Thought from today’s Bible reading from Genesis 46-47. Bible students are familiar with the period of slavery the children of Israel endured in Egypt. But there was another period of Egyptian bondage that occurred earlier. In this case, the slaves were not the Israelites or any other foreign people, they were the Egyptians themselves. During [...]