“And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.”
'Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?' When Moses heard this, he fled to Midian, where he settled as a foreigner and had two sons - the Israelite's rhetorical question forces Moses into exile. He 'fled to Midian' (Madiam), becoming a foreigner (paroikos), paralleling Abraham's own alienation from the promised land. The 'two sons' (Genesis 18:3-4) represent a new generation conceived in exile. Rejection by the covenant people leads to exile and a new beginning.
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