“I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.”
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high. The Exodus grounding of the covenant blessings: the God who broke the bars of Egypt's yoke is the God who promises to walk among the faithful community. The heads held high — the dignity of freedom — communicates the transformation from the bent-low posture of the slave to the upright posture of the free person. The covenant blessings are the continuation of the liberation that the Exodus began: the community that was freed from Egyptian bondage is the community promised the freedom of covenant blessing.
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