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03/27/2025
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“Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, for by a strong hand the Lord brought you out” (13:3). The rescue from Egypt was Israel’s formative event, and they remembered it by a week-long festival as well as how they treated first-borns. These actions reminded subsequent generations that they owed their freedom to the Lord’s saving power. Later, they were given the Law and a home in Canaan, but it all started with God’s gracious rescue.
“It is because of what the Lord did for me” (13:8). Just like Israel, we remember and recount what God did for us. We can live as his beloved children because, while we were helpless, he rescued us.