6871. 'When you lead the people out of Egypt' means when those who were spiritual had been delivered from molestation by falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'leading out' as delivering, as above in 6865, 6868; from the meaning of the children of Israel, to whom 'the people refers here, as those who are spiritual, that is, belong to the spiritual Church, dealt with in 6637, 6862, 6865; and from the meaning of 'Egypt' as false factual knowledge that molests, dealt with in 6692.