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Exodus |
Exodus or Shemot is the second book of the Hebrew
Bible/Christian Old Testament, and the second of five books of the Jewish Torah
or Pentateuch.
The book tells how Moses leads the Hebrews out of Egypt and through the
wilderness to the Mountain of God Sinai. There YHWH, through Moses, gives the
Hebrews their laws and enters into a covenant with them, by which he will give
them the land of Canaan in return for their faithfulness. The book ends with the
construction of the Tabernacle.
According to tradition, Exodus and the other four books of the Torah were
written by Moses. Modern biblical scholarship places its final textual in the
mid 5th century BC, i.e. post-exilic but earlier than the Hellenistic period,
although some parts, such as the Song of the sea and the Covenant Code may date
to as early as the 9th to 10th century BC.
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