The Book of Exodus

The Book of Exodus chronicles the going out of the Israelites from Egypt. It is the second book of the law or Pentateuch. Moses is said to have written it probably during the forty-years wandering in the wilderness between B.C. 1491 and 1451. It may be divided into two principal parts: historical and legislative.

The book contains an account of the early history of Israel as a nation and the oppression of the Israelites in the land of Egypt; the birth, education, flight and return of Moses; the ineffectual attempts to prevail upon Pharaoh to let the Israelites go; the successive signs and wonders, ending in the death of the firt-born, which leads to the deliverance of Israel from the land of bondage and the institution of the Passover; finally the departure out of Egypt and the arrival of the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

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