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In this episode, Sam and Will explore how God designed the tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant as a direct response to the Egyptian religion the Israelites had been surrounded by for centuries. They cover the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the 42 Negative Confessions, and the heart scarab, showing how ancient Egypt's approach to the afterlife was impossibly legalistic. They then draw parallels between Pharaoh's war tents, canopic chests, and funeral processions and the design of the tabernacle to show that God was intentionally using familiar imagery. However, where Egy ...