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

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.

They're 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 storylines 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-offoff 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 impressed, eventually after 10 rounds of

power displays that culminate in the death of the

firstborn of all of Egypt, Tharo agrees to let the Israelite slaves go.

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