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Book of Exodus

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The Book of Exodus (from Ancient Greek: Ἔξοδος Éxodos; Biblical Hebrew: שְׁמוֹת Šəmōṯ, 'Names'; Latin: Liber Exodus) is the second book of the Bible. It is the first part of the narrative of the Exodus, the origin myth of the Israelites, in which they leave slavery in Biblical Egypt through the strength of Yahweh, their deity, who according to the story chose them as his people. The Israelites then journey with the prophet Moses to Mount Sinai, where Yahweh gives the Ten Commandments and they enter into a covenant with Yahweh, who promises to make them a "holy nation, and a kingdom of priests" on condition of their faithfulness. He gives them laws and instructions to build the Tabernacle, the means by which he will come from heaven and dwell with them and lead them in a holy war to conquer Canaan (the "Promised Land"), which has earlier, according to the Book of Genesis, been promised to the "seed" of Abraham, the patriarch of the Israelites.

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Chapter I

  • Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.


  • Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
    • 8 (KJV)


Chapter II

  • And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
    • 3 (KJV)


  • Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?
    • 14 (KJV)


  • I have been a stranger in a strange land.
    • 22 (KJV)


Chapter III


  • Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
    • 5 (KJV)


  • And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
    • 6 (KJV)


  • I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows.
    • 7 (KJV)


  • I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
    • 8 (KJV)


  • And God said to Moses, "I AM THAT I AM." And He said, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'"


  • Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
    • 15 (KJV)


Chapter IV

  • But I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
    • 10 (KJV)


Chapter V

  • And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
    • 1 (KJV)


  • And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.
    • 2 (KJV)


  • Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
    • 7 (KJV)


Chapter VII

  • And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
    • 3 (KJV)


  • When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.
    • 9 (KJV)


  • Now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.
    For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
    And he hardened Pharaoh’s heart, that he hearkened not.
    • 11–13 (KJV)


Chapter VIII

  • This is the finger of God.
    • 19 (KJV)


  • Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee.
    • 21 (KJV)


Chapter IX

  • A boil breaking forth with blains.
    • 9 and 10 (KJV)


Chapter X

  • Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
    • 21 (KJV)


Chapter XI

  • Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt.
    • 1 (KJV)


Chapter XII

  • Your lamb shall be without blemish.
    • 5 (KJV)


  • And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
    Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
    • 8–9 (KJV)


  • And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord’s passover.
    For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.
    • 11–12 (KJV)


  • This day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations.
    • 14 (KJV)


  • Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread.
    • 15 (KJV)


  • And there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
    • 30 (KJV)


  • And they spoiled the Egyptians.
    • 36 (KJV)


Chapter XIII

  • Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
    • 3 (KJV)


  • And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night.
    • 21 (KJV)


Chapter XIV

  • And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
    • 22 (KJV)


Chapter XV

Song of the Sea

  • I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
    The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation.
    • 1–2 (KJV)


  • The Lord is a man of war.
    • 3 (KJV)


  • Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
    • 6 (KJV)


  • Thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
    And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.


Chapter XVI

  • Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
    • 3 (KJV)


  • And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was.
    • 15 (KJV)


Chapter XX

  • But let not God speak with us, lest we die.
    • 19 (KJV)


Ten Commandments

  • I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
    • 2 (KJV)


  • Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
    • 3 (KJV)


  • Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
    • 4 (KJV)


  • For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
    And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
    • 5–6 (KJV)


  • Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
    • 7 (KJV)


  • Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
    • 8-11 (KJV)


  • Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
    • 12 (KJV)


  • Thou shalt do no murder.
    • 13 (KJV)


  • Thou shalt not commit adultery.
    • 14 (KJV)


  • Thou shalt not steal.
    • 15 (KJV)


  • Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
    • 16 (KJV)


  • Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
    • 17 (KJV)


Chapter XXI

  • He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
    • 12 (KJV)


  • Life for life,
    Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
    Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
    • 24–25 (KJV)


Chapter XXII

  • Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
    • 18 (KJV)


  • You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.


Chapter XXIII

  • Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
    • 19 (KJV)


  • Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
    • 20 (KJV)


Chapter XXVIII

  • And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron’s heart, when he goeth in before the Lord.
    • 30 (KJV)


Chapter XXXII

  • Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
    • 1 (KJV)


  • And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
    And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf.
    • 3–4 (KJV)


  • And the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
    • 6 (KJV)


  • A stiffnecked people.
    • 9 (KJV)


  • Who is on the Lord’s side? let him come unto me.
    • 26 (KJV)


Chapter XXXIII

  • And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.
    • 11 (KJV)


  • Joshua, the son of Nun.
    • 11 (KJV)


  • Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
    • 20 (KJV)


Chapter XXXIV

  • And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
    • 28 (KJV)


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Quotes about Exodus

  • Tell them, I AM, Jehovah said
    To Moses; while earth heard in dread,
       And, smitten to the heart,
    At once above, beneath, around,
    All Nature, without voice or sound,
       Replied, "O Lord, THOU ART."


  • Jacob’s descendants, the Israelites, find their way to Egypt and become too numerous for the Pharaoh’s liking, so he enslaves them and orders that all the boys be killed at birth. Moses escapes the mass infanticide and grows up to challenge the Pharaoh to let his people go. God, who is omnipotent, could have softened Pharaoh’s heart, but he hardens it instead, which gives him a reason to afflict every Egyptian with painful boils and other miseries before killing every one of their firstborn sons. (The word Passover alludes to the executioner angel’s passing over the households with Israelite firstborns.) God follows this massacre with another one when he drowns the Egyptian army as they pursue the Israelites across the Red Sea. The Israelites assemble at Mount Sinai and hear the Ten Commandments, the great moral code that outlaws engraved images and the coveting of livestock but gives a pass to slavery, rape, torture, mutilation, and genocide of neighboring tribes. The Israelites become impatient while waiting for Moses to return with an expanded set of laws, which will prescribe the death penalty for blasphemy, homosexuality, adultery, talking back to parents, and working on the Sabbath. To pass the time, they worship a statue of a calf, for which the punishment turns out to be, you guessed it, death. Following orders from God, Moses and his brother Aaron kill three thousand of their companions.




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Old Testament
Genesis • Exodus • Leviticus • Numbers • Deuteronomy • Joshua • Judges • Ruth • 1 Samuel • 2 Samuel • 1 Kings • 2 Kings • 1 Chronicles • 2 Chronicles • Ezra • Nehemiah • Esther • Job • Psalms • Proverbs • Ecclesiastes • Song of Solomon • Isaiah • Jeremiah • Lamentations • Ezekiel • Daniel • Hosea • Joel • Amos • Obadiah • Jonah • Micah • Nahum • Habakkuk • Zephaniah • Haggai • Zechariah • Malachi
Apocrypha
Esdras • Tobit • Judith • Additions to Esther • Wisdom of Solomon • Susanna • Baruch • Additions to Daniel • Prayer of Manassheh • 1 Maccabees • 2 Maccabees
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Matthew • Mark • Luke • John • Acts • Romans • 1 Corinthians • 2 Corinthians • Galatians • Ephesians • Philippians • Colossians • 1 Thessalonians • 2 Thessalonians • 1 Timothy • 2 Timothy • Titus • Philemon • Hebrews • James • 1 Peter • 2 Peter • 1 John • 2 John • 3 John • Jude • Revelation


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