Exodus
After Genesis comes the Exodus, which means “to go out”, and in this context Israel is led by God ‘out of’ Egypt. Exodus is separated into three distinct parts; the first part follows Moses and the Hebrews coming into Egypt. Moses was instructed by God to lead His people out of bondage. Some might ask why God would allow His people to be in bondage; but when you read into context and consider God’s nature we see exactly why God allowed His people to end up in bondage—He wanted to show His presence to the world as well as His own people.
The time of Israel’s sojourn in Egypt is calculated ‘to the very day,’ that is, 430 years. Genesis 15:13 gave the time in the round number four hundred years. First Kings 6:1calculates the time from
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The arguments that support Moses’s writing of Exodus also uphold Moses’s authorship of Leviticus (see the previous chapter). Additionally, we find more than fifty occasions when the text says something like, “The LORD spoke to Moses” (Leviticus 1:1; 4:1; 5:14; 6:1). The New Testament also refers to Moses as the author of passages from Leviticus (Matthew 8:4; Luke 2:22; Hebrews 8:5).The word Leviticus derives from the tribe of Levi, whose members were set aside by the Lord to be His priests and worship leaders. As a title, the word is translated from the Septuagint, meaning “‘pertaining to the Levites,’ and although that tribe as such is not emphasized throughout the book, the priestly subject matter renders the title appropriate.” Its content was originally meant to instruct the new nation of Israel in proper worship and right living, so that they might reflect the character of their divine …show more content…
This book is also used by most skeptics to try and call God immoral for some of the commands He gives (see Leviticus 21:9). “The book of Leviticus was the first book studied by a Jewish child; yet is often among the last books of the Bible to be studied by a Christian.” An important theological point in development is shown to us in Leviticus. Christ is foreshadowed by how the sacrificial system is conducted…”When an Israelite worshiper laid his hand on the animal victim, he identified himself with the animal as his substitute . . . this accomplished a symbolic transfer of his sin and a legal transfer of his guilt to the animal victim. God then accepted the slaughter of the animal …as a ransom payment for the particular sin which occasioned