Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

Welcome to February's bonus episode.

We're aiming to do an episode like this at the end of each month offering some reflections

and some corrections.

Let's start with reflections looking back at all we've covered so far.

The Bible is one unified story.

It's the story of a family and it all starts in Genesis.

God set out to build a relationship with this family but things went terribly wrong when

they fractured the relationship through sin.

But their sin didn't surprise God.

He already had a plan in place to restore this relationship even before it was broken

and he continues working out that plan immediately undeterred and unhindered by their rebellion.

He sets apart a man named Abraham to be the patriarch of the family and he gives this

family a name, the Israelites.

There are a bunch of busted people who lie, cheat and steal.

God blesses them despite their sin but it still has its consequences.

One of the long story lines of consequence is of the 400 years they spent enslaved in

Egypt.

That all started because one brother Joseph was a bit of a show off so his older brothers

were jealous and sold him into slavery.

But God responded to their sin with rescue.

He sent a murderer named Moses to demonstrate his power to the Egyptian Pharaoh who was not

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