I am a little uncertain what to make of this. If God brought Israel out of Egypt to be his slave, because that relationship was to be characteristic of one on a mission set by God, is it not still surprising that he permitted this relationship, seemingly peculiar to situations where he was involved, to continue, quite commonly perhaps, between one Israelite and another?
I am a little uncertain what to make of this. If God brought Israel out of Egypt to be his slave, because that relationship was to be characteristic of one on a mission set by God, is it not still surprising that he permitted this relationship, seemingly peculiar to situations where he was involved, to continue, quite commonly perhaps, between one Israelite and another?