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Shemot, on Exodus 1–5: Affliction in Egypt, discovery of baby Moses, Pharaoh; Va'eira, on Exodus 6–9: Plagues 1 to 7 of Egypt; Bo, on Exodus 10–13: Last plagues of Egypt, first Passover; Beshalach, on Exodus 13–17: Parting the Sea, water, manna, Amalek; Yitro, on Exodus 18–20: Jethro's advice, The Ten Commandments
After "the L ORD [9] came down upon mount Sinai", Moses went up briefly and returned to prepare the people, and then in Exodus 20 "God spoke" to all the people the words of the covenant, that is, the "ten commandments" [10] as it is written.
The Covenant Code, or Book of the Covenant, is the name given by academics to a text appearing in the Torah, at Exodus 20:22–23:19; or, more strictly, the term Covenant Code may be applied to Exodus 21:1–22:16. [1] Biblically, the text is the second of the law codes said to have been given to Moses by God at Mount Sinai.
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]
[4] [5] The Exodus takes place in the year A.M. 2666 (A.M. = Anno Mundi, years of the world from creation), exactly two thirds of the way through the four thousand years; the construction of Solomon's Temple is commenced 480 years, or 12 generations of 40 years each, after that; and 430 years pass between the building of Solomon's Temple and ...
In Rabbinical Jewish tradition it is also known as the Written Torah ... Exodus 20:2) or whether it appears in "And God spoke unto Moses saying" ...
Chapter and verse divisions did not appear in the original texts of Jewish or Christian bibles; such divisions form part of the paratext of the Bible.Since the early 13th century, most copies and editions of the Bible have presented all but the shortest of the scriptural books with divisions into chapters, generally a page or so in length.
Exodus 20:18 [10] Exodus 31:12–17 (verses 16 and 17 contested) ... The Holiness Code is believed to have been written as a form to avoid sexual deviations, ...