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The second book of the Pentateuch is called Exodus, from the Greek word for “departure,” because its central event was understood by the Septuagint’s translators to be the departure of the Israelites from Egypt. Its Hebrew title, Shemoth (“Names”), is from the book’s opening phrase, “These are the names….” Continuing the history of Israel from the point where the Book of Genesis leaves off, Exodus recounts the Egyptian oppression of Jacob’s ever-increasing descendants and their miraculous deliverance by God through Moses, who led them across the Red Sea to Mount Sinai where they entered into a covenant with the Lord. Covenantal laws and detailed prescriptions for the tabernacle (a portable sanctuary foreshadowing the Jerusalem Temple) and its service are followed by a dramatic episode of rebellion, repentance, and divine mercy. After the broken covenant is renewed, the tabernacle is constructed, and the cloud signifying God’s glorious presence descends to cover it.

These events made Israel a nation and confirmed their unique relationship with God. The “law” (Hebrew torah) given by God through Moses to the Israelites at Mount Sinai constitutes the moral, civil, and ritual legislation by which they were to become a holy people. Many elements of it were fundamental to the teaching of Jesus as well as to New Testament and Christian moral teaching.

The principal divisions of Exodus are:

Introduction: The Oppression of the Israelites in Egypt 
The Call and Commission of Moses 
The Contest with Pharaoh 
The Deliverance of the Israelites from Pharaoh and Victory at the Sea 
The Journey in the Wilderness to Sinai 
Covenant and Legislation at Mount Sinai 
Israel’s Apostasy and God’s Renewal of the Covenant 
The Building of the Tabernacle and the Descent of God’s Glory upon It

The Book Of Exodus

He made the altar of incense of acacia wood, one cubit long, and one cubit wide; it was square, and was two cubits high; its horns were of one piece with it. He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, and its sides all around, and its horns; and he made for it a molding of gold all around, and made two golden rings for it under its molding, on two opposite sides of it, to hold the poles with which to carry it. And he made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.


Making the Anointing Oil and the Incense


He made the holy anointing oil also, and the pure fragrant incense, blended as by the perfumer.


Making the Altar of Incense. Making the Anointing Oil and the Incense