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By: Curtis Baker

When the Israelites crossed the Red Sea and entered the freedom of the Arabian wilderness, the difficulties of their life were not finished. Yes, it is true that the freedom of the wilderness was superior to being a slave in Egypt, but at times they had serious doubts about this. On more than one occasion the people asked Moses why he had led them out into the desert. Life was hard in the desert. In Egypt, even though they were oppressed by slavery, there was at least some form of structure in the slavery. They slept in the same place every night; they knew when meals would be provided; their children all grew up in a place that was familiar to them. The Israelites hated that oppression when they lived under it, but…when they were taken away from what they knew, and were brought into a land that is appropriately called “the wilderness,” the unknowns of the wilderness scared them more than the slavery that was known in Egypt.

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