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From Slavery to the Promised Land

Egypt · Mount Sinai · Jericho · Jerusalem

The great rescue at the heart of the Old Testament: God hears a slave-people's cry, brings them out with a mighty hand, binds them to Himself at the mountain, and leads them into the land He promised.

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    Egypt

    The Nile, Bondage & Deliverance

    Egypt

    Where it began. Israel groaned under slavery in Egypt — and God heard their cry and rescued them through the Passover and the parted sea.

    Step inside Egypt
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    Mount Sinai

    Where God gave the Law

    Mount Sinai

    Rescued first, then claimed. At the mountain God made His covenant with Israel and gave the Ten Commandments — grace came before the Law.

    Step inside Mount Sinai
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    Jericho

    The City of Palms

    Jericho

    The door to the land. After forty years in the wilderness, the first city to fall as Israel finally crossed the Jordan into Canaan.

    Step inside Jericho
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    Jerusalem

    The Holy City

    Jerusalem

    The journey's heart. Generations later David made this the city of God — the destination the whole rescue had been moving toward.

    Step inside Jerusalem

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