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  2. The Exodus - Wikipedia

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    The Exodus. Departure of the Israelites ( David Roberts, 1829) The Exodus ( Hebrew: יציאת מצרים, Yəṣīʾat Mīṣrayīm: lit. 'Departure from Egypt'[ a]) is the founding myth [ b] of the Israelites whose narrative is spread over four of the five books of the Pentateuch (specifically, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy ).

  3. Book of Exodus - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Exodus (from Ancient Greek: Ἔξοδος, romanized : Éxodos; Biblical Hebrew: שְׁמוֹת Šəmōṯ, 'Names'; Latin: Liber Exodus) is the second book of the Bible. It is a narrative of the Exodus, the origin myth of the Israelites leaving slavery in Biblical Egypt through the strength of their deity named Yahweh, who ...

  4. Timeline of Jewish history - Wikipedia

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    World Jewish population around 7.7 million, 90% in Europe, mostly Eastern Europe; around 3.5 million in the former Polish provinces. 1881–1884, 1903–1906, 1918–1920. Three major waves of pogroms kill tens of thousands of Jews in Russia and Ukraine. More than two million Russian Jews emigrate in the period 1881–1920.

  5. Plagues of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The Plagues of Egypt ( Biblical Hebrew: מכות מצרים ), in the account of the Book of Exodus, are ten disasters inflicted on biblical Egypt by the God of Israel (Yahweh) in order to convince the Pharaoh to emancipate the enslaved Israelites, each of them confronting Pharaoh and one of his Egyptian gods; [ 1] they serve as "signs and ...

  6. Chronology of the Bible - Wikipedia

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    The Exodus takes place in (AM 2666), exactly two-thirds of the way through the 4,000 years, marking it as the pivotal event of the chronology. [6] It is also two-thirds of the way through the 40 notional "generations" of 100 years each, with Aaron, the first High Priest of Israel, representing the 26th generation from Adam. [4] AM 3146 Solomon ...

  7. Stations of the Exodus - Wikipedia

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    Attempting to locate many of the stations of the Israelite Exodus is a difficult task, if not infeasible. Though most scholars concede that the narrative of the Exodus may have a historical basis, [9] [10] [11] the event in question would have borne little resemblance to the mass-emigration and subsequent forty years of desert nomadism described in the biblical account.

  8. Exodusters - Wikipedia

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    Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of the Exoduster Movement or Exodus of 1879. [1] It was the first general migration of black people following the Civil War.

  9. Book of Deuteronomy - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Papyrus Fouad 266, dating to c. 100 BCE, contains part of a Greek translation ( Septuagint) of Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy ( Ancient Greek: Δευτερονόμιον, romanized : Deuteronómion, lit. 'second law'; Latin: Liber Deuteronomii) [1] is the fifth book of the Torah (in Judaism ), where it is called Devarim ( Biblical Hebrew ...