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

Welcome to our March R&C 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 the reflections and look back at all we've covered so far.

We just finished the book of Joshua our seventh book.

So let's get the 30,000th of view on where we are in the chronological timeline of the

Bible's overall meta-narrative.

The Bible is one unified story.

Way back in Genesis, God set out to build a relationship with one particular 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 this 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 sin still has its consequences.

One of the long storylines of consequences is that the 400 years they spend enslaved

in Egypt.

God sent a man named Moses to demonstrate his power over the Egyptian ruler who's enslaving

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