Hey, this is John at the Bible Project. This summer on the podcast we've been re-releasing

a series that we did last year on our YouTube channel. It was a series of Q&R episodes,

question and response. We talked through books and the Old Testament, we did a few themes,

and we're releasing those now on the podcast so that you can listen to them from the comfort

of your own ear buds. The audio quality is a little poor than normal, so I apologize for that.

This was a live feed on YouTube, but it's worth listening to the questions and discussion

are really great. In this episode we cover the beginning of the Book of Exodus. Exodus chapters 1

through 18. And we get into some really tough questions like, why does God harden Pharaoh's heart

and did the Exodus story actually happen in history or is it just a man? Thanks for joining us.

Here we go. Hey, welcome. Happy Tuesday. Happy Tuesday. Yeah, so we're going to be answering

questions on Exodus 1 through 18, which is the Exodus story, so start sending them in. We'll tag

those, put them on spreadsheet, we'll look at them and then we'll answer as many as possible.

We've got a bunch coming in. You've marked some of these, what do you want to do? Yeah, Josh.

Husk. You've asked a question that comes up really often when people read the story of the Exodus,

which is about God hardening Pharaoh's heart. So your question is, why does God harden Pharaoh's

heart in Exodus chapter 9? What are the implications that that should have on our view of God? What does

it reveal about God? Pretty answer. Can we just set this up a little bit more? Yes, so Exodus story.

Thank you. We've got beginning of Exodus. We've finished Genesis and we've got Joseph and his

brothers hanging out in Egypt. Turn the page to Exodus and all of a sudden it's much later.

How many years later does we don't really know? It's vague hundreds. Hundreds of years later.

And now the Hebrew people are much larger and they're slaves to the Egyptian Pharaoh.

And their life's not awesome. And then we get into the Exodus story which is Moses's rise as the leader

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