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. 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-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 impressed,

eventually after 10 rounds of power displays that culminate in the death of the

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

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