Having entered into a covenant with God, the Israelites begin to make their way to Canaan, the Land of Promise. Their journey would take forty years, led by Moses, his brother Aaron, his sister Miriam, and his lieutenant Joshua. The Israelites would be supplied with the gift of manna along the way, led by fire and cloud, and yet they were afflicted with discouragement and near rebellion for the whole course of those forty years. It was only after Moses’s death that the Israelites would, at last, enter the land of Canaan. Here they would receive the promise of freedom from an even deeper form of slavery. This promise would take hold of the Jewish imagination.
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