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The Israelite's Relationship With A Personable God Yahweh

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The Old Testament is the grand narrative of the Israelite’s relationship with a personable God who calls himself Yahweh, ‘I am who I am’, found primarily in the book of Psalms and collection of books known as the Pentateuch which play the integral role of laying out the interactions between Yahweh and his people. In the Pentateuch, the reader follows the story of the Israelites from creation to flood, patriarchs to captivity, and exodus to covenant and at the center of this journey is the God Yahweh, who can be observed as slowly revealing himself personally to Moses, the Israelites in Egypt and then again on the climatic meeting on Mt. Sinai. Here Yahweh reveals himself to be three things: a personable God who wants His people to flourish,
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