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Violence In The Book Of Exodus

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The book of Exodus has several instances of violence. The Israelites suffered greatly from the hands of the oppressor. The acts of violence started when the king ordered the midwives to kill the male children, born of the Israelites. Again, the oppressors forced them to do the hard work of making bricks under hard harsh conditions. They were whipped and afflicted in every way. An Egyptian fought a Hebrew, which aggrieved Moses. In the course of trying to defend the Hebrew, Moses accidentally killed the Egyptian and buried him in the sand, thinking to keep it as a secret. When he later learned that he had been seen by someone, he escaped and went to a faraway country, where he lived a shepherd. The Israelites were freed by God’s intervention,

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