And Exodus gives narrative reality to those ... question whether Israelites were ever slaves under the pharaohs. Rembrandt reinforced Moses's larger-than-life image. Here, heartbroken after ...

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Behind all such hatred—especially against children—is our enemy the devil. Such violence doesn’t take God by surprise. He had ...

Moses warned the pharaoh that God would send terrible plagues ... During the meal, the story of Exodus is told from a book called the Haggadah (Narration). Everybody takes part in reading from ...

The biblical tale so goes that Moses, a prophet of God, commanded the deepest waters of the Red Sea, to open a path for the Israelites to flee an oppressive Egyptian pharaoh — whose troops were ...

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