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Events in Exodus mark Israelites’ departure toward freedom

Drawing from the 1897 Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us by Charles Foster. Public-domain image courtesy of Wikimedia.

The Israelites had been captive in Egypt for 430 years, as the account in Genesis and Exodus goes, and finally the time had come for their God to fulfill His promises. But Egypt’s leader, the Pharaoh, wasn’t about to cooperate.

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