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the earth would be through his descendant, the One
originally promised to our first ancestors (Genesis 3:15).
God repeated His promise to Abraham’s son, Isaac,
and his grandson, Jacob. God gave Jacob twelve sons
whose families, called Israelites, were eventually
enslaved in Egypt by wicked kings. These wicked
kings, Pharaohs, abused the Israelites and made
their work harder and harder, hoping they would die
(Exodus 1). Finally, around 1446 B.C, God sent
them a great man named Moses to deliver them from
slavery in Egypt.
Moses the Deliverer
Moses was 80 years old when God called him to
confront the Pharaoh with God’s demand: “Let My
people go” (Exodus 3). Though Pharaoh at first
refused, God sent plagues upon his nation, and he
finally agreed to let the Israelites go (Exodus 4-10).
Before God sent the final plague, God told Moses to
tell His people, the Israelites, to kill a perfect young
male lamb as a sacrifice and to brush its blood on the
top and sides of the door of each house. This blood
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