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11 In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people. 12 He looked this way and that and saw that no one was there, and then he attacked the Egyptian and concealed the body in the sand.
Soon, however, the Egyptians subjected the Israelites to bondage, using them as slave laborers to build the city of Rameses (Ex 1:11). When Israel left Egypt after 430 years (Ex 12:40), the Bible tells us they departed from Rameses (Ex 12:37). From these references, we can conclude that most Israelites spent the years of the Sojourn ...
Egypt is referred to as the “house of bondage” not merely on account of its large slave population. Egypt was a “house of bondage” through and through. All were mentally enslaved to the fixed laws of nature that determined the fate of individuals and groups alike. No slave even imagined that escape from bondage was possible ...
Overview. The Egyptian slavery is the only Biblical instance of national suffering which is not explicitly linked to any sin. Commentators thus divide between seeking candidates for a sin which might have deserved such a severe punishment, or trying to uncover non-punitive goals of the Egyptian experience.
Egyptian bondage is a necessary prelude to fulfilling the mission of God’s chosen people. If the progeny of Abraham are to be a source of blessing for the nations of the world (Genesis 12:3), if they are to be a model of what is just and right (Genesis 18:19), then they must have exposure to what is wrong with the world. To endure the ...
Memories of the Egyptian Empire in Canaan have been transformed into a memory of liberation from Egyptian bondage, with this political transition mapped onto the geographical space of Egypt and Canaan. The mnemohistory of the Exodus has roots in the LB/Iron Age transition, which has been narrativized as an ethnic myth of origins. The oldest ...
The memory of the house of bondage was nurtured by Canaanites who never went to Egypt, but who nonetheless lived under the heavy hand of Pharaoh during the years of the Egyptian Empire in Canaan. After generations of enslavement, the Canaanites were released from Egyptian bondage.
