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Numbers 16:27

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So they got them up from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones.

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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 delivered Israel through the exodus, making it the former place of their bondage. In this passage, Dathan and Abiram’s rebellion implicitly rejects God’s saving leadership by contrasting the wilderness with Egypt, which they misleadingly describe as desirable.

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Numbers 16:27 mentions Egypt.

Egypt · Ricardo Liberato

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