About Exodus the Book
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Exodus, the second book of the Hebrew Bible and the story of Moses’ call by God to rescue his people from oppression in Egypt. Afterencountering God and entering into a convenant in the wilderness at Sinai, the Israelites constructed a portable shrine (tabernacle) and set out on a journey toward Canaan, the land promised by God to theirancestors as an inheritance. Exodus is the book’s Greek title in the Septuagint (lxx); in Hebrew it is called (from its opening words)ve‘elleh shmoth, ‘And these [are] the names,’ or simply Shmoth, ‘Names.’ More
Achtemeier, Paul J., Harper & Row and Society of Biblical Literature. Harper’s Bible dictionary 1985 : 288. Print.
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