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Exodus 32:28

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The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

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The Exodus RouteThe route of the Israelites out of Egypt through the Sinai wilderness toward Canaan.

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Egypt was the land from which the Lord had recently delivered Israel, making their worship of the golden calf a direct rejection of the God who redeemed them. In this setting at Sinai, the Levites’ judgment against the idolaters underscores the covenant’s seriousness after Israel’s exodus from Egypt.

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Exodus 32:28 mentions Egypt.

Egypt · Ricardo Liberato

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