About Exodus the Book

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About Exodus the Book

Exodus 3:1–22

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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. After encountering 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 their ancestors 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 shmoth, ‘And these [are] the names,’ or simply Shmoth, ‘Names.’


Achtemeier, Paul J., Harper & Row and Society of Biblical Literature. Harper’s Bible dictionary 1985 : 288. Print.

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