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Moving into the Promised Land. Numbers 34.

Painting: the Prayer at Valley Forge, by Arnold Friberg. “The Lord said to Moses, ‘Command the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter Canaan, the land that will be allotted to you as an inheritance is to have these boundaries: … Your southern boundary will start in the east from the southern end of the Dead Sea, cross south ofContinue reading “Moving into the Promised Land. Numbers 34.”

Each Biblical Plague Rebuked a Specific Egyptian Idol. Exodus 12 and 13.

When Moses returned from Midian–the 80-year-old prophet who had been raised in Pharaoh’s palace, then fled a murder charge at the age of 40–the Hebrews were pleased. At first. But then Pharaoh told his task masters to make the Hebrews build bricks just as before, but with no straw supplied to them. The bricks wereContinue reading “Each Biblical Plague Rebuked a Specific Egyptian Idol. Exodus 12 and 13.”