The Exodus Story Is a Paradime of Salvation All the Way to the New Testament

In the story, if you know it, pharaoh is just this brutal, implacable, ruthless tyrant. No matter how hard the hebrews worked, it was never enough. Egypt's appetite for more was insatiable. You literally had to build entire store cities for all the extra grain. And it was an economic system, like most empires, built on the back of slavery. Slaves devolve into a subhuman existence. They only have value in what they produce. Rest is what comes when you are set free by god. Not just from slavery, but from the socio economic system of n egypt,. that is, in turn, legitimized by the false gods