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Beshalach, on Exodus 13–17: Parting the Sea, water, manna, Amalek; Yitro, on Exodus 18–20: Jethro's advice, The Ten Commandments; Mishpatim, on Exodus 21–24: The Covenant Code; Terumah, on Exodus 25–27: God's instructions on the Tabernacle and furnishings; Tetzaveh, on Exodus 27–30: God's instructions on the first priests
It is the group of five books made up of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy and stands first in all versions of the Christian Old Testament. There is a tradition within Judaism and Christianity that Moses wrote the Torah. The Torah itself attributes certain sections to Mosaic authorship.
Israel in Egypt (Edward Poynter, 1867). The story of the Exodus is told in the first half of Exodus, with the remainder recounting the 1st year in the wilderness, and followed by a narrative of 39 more years in the books of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, the last four of the first five books of the Bible (also called the Torah or Pentateuch). [10]
[a] [10] It was a worldwide best-seller, translated into a dozen languages, and was made into a feature film in 1960, starring Paul Newman, directed by Otto Preminger, as well as into a short-lived Broadway musical, Ari, in 1971, for which Uris wrote the book and lyrics. [11] Exodus illustrated the history of Palestine from the late 19th ...
Embedded in the covenant are the Decalogue (the Ten Commandments, Exodus 20:1–17), [56] and the Book of the Covenant (Exodus 20:22–23:19). [57] [58] The entire Book of Leviticus constitutes a second body of law, the Book of Numbers begins with yet another set, and the Book of Deuteronomy another. [citation needed]
Notably, in 2006, the independent scholar Russell Gmirkin published a book titled Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus, in which he argued that the Pentateuch relied on the Greek-language histories of Berossus (278 BC) and Manetho (285–280 BC) and therefore must have been composed subsequently to both of them.
Paul Prather: A few months ago, I experienced an epiphany—no angels or whirlwinds, just one of those aha moments we all have in various arenas of life, from auto repairs to cooking to Bible studies.
[30] [31] As a result, attempts to date the event to a specific century in known history have been inconclusive. [32] 1 Kings 6:1 places it 480 years before the construction of Solomon's Temple, implying an Exodus at c. 1450 BCE, but the number is rhetorical rather than historical, representing a symbolic twelve generations of forty years each.