I like condensed milk, therefore I like Exodus 1 as it takes about 200 years down to one chapter. If I do some extrapolation I reckon we could have made the whole bible just 30 chapters: much easier reading! Just kidding - I'm at home with a tome - but the Egyptians seem to prefer their Hebrews in small chunks. Not literally of course (although maybe one or two became salty snacks), but when Israel grows into a large nation the Egyptians feel seriously threatened. I guess they went to bed feeding a Maltese Poodle and woke up staring at a Rottweiler, so they decided it would be best to put the new pooch in a cage. The Israelites soon found themselves enslaved and heavily persecuted as their Egyptian masters tried to manage the threat they perceived them to be.
It's amazing how quickly people change: Friends one day, enemies the next........
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ReplyDeleteWas just thinking that Paul complained about us christians still drinking milk, maybe we should at least be reading chapters like Exodus 1 for some condensed milk? I guess that would make this post fudge...200 years boiled down to 11 lines?