And so I think one theme that develops across the pages of scripture is you have women who instead of being deceived by the serpent, deceive the serpent.

And I think this is one illustration of that where you have Shifra and Pua who are deceiving the seed of the serpent.

We're going to see other incidences of that later on. I mean, one that comes immediately to

mind is Joshua Chapter 2 and Rehab when she hides the spies.

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My name is Alex Duke, and with me are my two good friends.

Sam Omadi.

Jim, you see what I have in my Bible today?

You have a check in your Bible. Look at that. Hallelujah.

Well, guys, here we are. Follow me as I follow Christ.

Here we are at the book of Exodus. Sam, your fever dreams have finally come true.

I'm going to have more today. But before we jump into the details of the text, I want to

ask you guys a brief question about something we've talked about before. Why is it important that we

view these first five books of the Bible, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, numbers, and Deuteronomy

as one five-fold book with one author? Why is it important to sort of keep that framework in our

mind? For the same reason that if you

start reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you need to assume everything that you've

already learned about the wizarding world from Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone. Or if you're

going to read, you know, the two towers, you need to bear in mind what you know from the Hobbit and the Fellowship of

the Ring.

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