We left our scene at the moment when “…about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides the children (women, elderly — author’s remark*)” (Ex. 12:

Each time we arrived at a new site in Egypt, almost every guide would say it with confidence: “We never used slavery for construction. The

“This month shall be for you the first of the months…” (Ex. 12:2) In Egypt, every new pharaoh, on the day of his inauguration,

Rom. 12:1 “I urge you therefore, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God.

For Christians, the question of observing the biblical feasts of Israel — or more precisely, the Feasts of the Lord described in Leviticus 23 — rests at