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[Note: <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-1<\/strong> page.]<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The theme of the second book of the Bible and the source from which it draws its name is in Exodus 19:1: \u201cIn the third month after the children of Israel were gone forth out of<\/strong> the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.\u201d Exodus<\/em> means \u201cgoing out.\u201d This book explains that the Hebrews were then slaves to the Egyptians because a Pharaoh had come into power who \u201cknew not Joseph\u201d (1:8). That generation had forgotten the blessing Joseph the first Hebrew to arrive in Egypt, had been to the Egyptians. Exodus tells the story of Moses\u2019 birth and adoption by the daughter of Pharaoh and how he was eventually used by God to lead the children of Israel out of Egyptian bondage.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Mosaic authorship of Exodus is clearly stated three times in the book itself (17:14; 14:4\u20138; 34:27). Despite these plain statements, some self-proclaimed \u201chigher critics\u201d insist that it is only a patchwork of stories gathered from various sources and thrown together by some unknown editor. Such is nothing short of the rankest infidelity. Exodus was probably written near the end of the Wilderness Wanderings of the Israelites., about 1,500 BC. It covers a period predating Moses\u2019 birth by several years and into at least the eightieth year of Moses\u2019 life. The purposes of Exodus seem to be the following:<\/span><\/p>\n The book of Exodus is a book of preparations:<\/span><\/p>\n In Exodus, we have one of the most exciting and dramatic narratives ever written. It contains the record of the first great series of miracles God performed through a human agent. It contains the first written statement of God\u2019s great moral laws which have remained constant from the beginning. The remainder of the Bible and of God\u2019s dealings with men in subsequent history cannot be understood without the material in this great book.<\/span><\/p>\n [Note:<\/strong>\u00a0I wrote this article for, and it was published in the \u201cBible Thoughts\u201d Column for the Hood County News<\/em>, Granbury, Texas, September 23, 1979.]<\/span><\/p>\n Attribution:<\/strong> From thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Views: 4[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-1 page.] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The theme of the second book of the Bible and the source from which it draws its name is in Exodus 19:1: \u201cIn the third month after the children of…<\/p>\n\n
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