“I believe he is a powerful god—perhaps the most powerful. But he frightens me. I am not sure I can submit to a deity who slaughtered my people so wantonly.” “And your Pharaoh did not slaughter my people?” His eyes pinned me. “Yes . . . but . . .” “Do you not think our freedom was worth the price that was paid? That our murdered sons and fathers, our violated women, did not deserve justice? Blood for blood? A life for a life?” Anger drew his brows together, and he pulled away from me. “I don’t . . . I don’t know . . . Must blood always be shed?” “Yes. Yahweh is the creator of life, and it is
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