Exodus - The Mountain of Paradise

Exodus is an attempt to create something like a microcosm of the world in the descendants of Jacob. The notion of the 70 nations is an important tradition, because the law was kind of given to these 70 nations. And here we see this notion of 70 as Jacob's sons being a kind of microcosm within Egypt.

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