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Smith's Bible Dictionary

Exodus:

(that is, going out [of Egypt]) the second book of the law or Pentateuch. Its author was Moses. It was written probably during the forty‐years wanderings in the wilderness, between B.C. 1491 and 1451. It may be divided into two principal parts:

(1.) Historical (Exodus 1:1-18; 27:1). … and

(2.) Legislative (Exodus 19:40); 38:1).

(3.) The first part contains an account of the following particulars: the great increase of Jacob's posterity in the land of Egypt, and their oppression under a new dynasty, which occupied the throne after the death of Joseph; 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 first‐born, by means of which the deliverance of Israel from the land of bondage is at length accomplished, and the institution of the Passover; finally the departure out of Egypt and the arrival of the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

(4.) This part gives a sketch of the early history of Israel as a nation; and the history has three clearly‐marked stages. First we see a nation enslaved; next a nation redeemed; lastly a nation set apart, and through the blending of its religious and political life consecrated to the service of God.

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