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The primary objective, indeed the only end of the liberation from slavery, is worship, "which can only take place according to God’s measure and therefore eludes the rules of the game of political compromise" suggested by Pharaoh. "Israel departs, not in order to be a people like all the others; it departs in order to serve God" as God wants to be served.

Source: Pope Benedict XVI

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