Exodus

40 chapters to read in the World English Bible translation.

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Exodus: God sets his people free

Exodus tells Israel's founding event: the departure from Egypt. An enslaved people cries out, God hears, calls Moses at the burning bush, strikes Egypt with ten plagues, opens the sea — then makes covenant at Sinai and comes to dwell among his own in the tabernacle.

It is also the great foreshadowing of the gospel: the Passover lamb, the protecting blood, the passage from bondage to freedom — images the New Testament applies to Christ, "our Passover" (1 Corinthians 5:7). To understand Exodus is to understand the vocabulary of salvation.

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  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. 14
  15. 15
  16. 16
  17. 17
  18. 18
  19. 19
  20. 20
  21. 21
  22. 22
  23. 23
  24. 24
  25. 25
  26. 26
  27. 27
  28. 28
  29. 29
  30. 30
  31. 31
  32. 32
  33. 33
  34. 34
  35. 35
  36. 36
  37. 37
  38. 38
  39. 39
  40. 40

Frequently asked questions about Exodus

What does the word "exodus" mean?

From the Greek exodos, "the way out": the departure from Egypt, the act of liberation the whole Bible then celebrates as proof that God delivers his people.

What are the key passages of Exodus?

The burning bush and God's name (chapter 3), the Passover (12), the sea crossing (14), the ten commandments (20), the golden calf and renewed grace (32-34), the glory filling the tabernacle (40).

Why so many chapters about the tabernacle?

Because the goal of leaving Egypt was not only freedom but presence: "let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them" (Exodus 25:8). Liberation leads to communion.

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