The book of Exodus begins the law of the Bible. The story within Exodus isn’t actually that long, but it is full of law. Within the story, God wrote the ten commandments and gave them to Moses, the plagues occurred in Egypt, and God parted the Red Sea through Moses. It was mentioned in the lecture that Pharaoh in the Exodus story is unnamed. This tends to be helpful to oppressed people as it allows them to put the things that are oppressing them into the spot of Pharaoh making the story of the Exodus more relatable. I was also surprised to learn that during early American history people took out the parts that mentioned liberation during. times when people had slaves to discourage slaves from trying to gain liberation. We also worked on making a list of commandments for a hypothetical society. This was a very interesting activity as it allowed me to think about what was important to me for my specific society and to compare them to the Ten Commandments.
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