The Book Of Exodus

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The book of Exodus consists of two genres, Narrative History and Laws. God rescuing his people from slavery by using an unlikely hero named Moses is the theme. The Hebrew children are living in bondage under Pharoah. When he sees them multiplying he gets worried and gives orders to kill all the Hebrew sons at birth. But one baby boy named Moses survives. His mother cleverly placed him in a basket and sent him down the Nile River where he was rescued by Pharoah’s daughter. She raised him as her own son. When Moses grew up, he killed an Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew worker and fled to the wilderness to avoid punishment. Moses married and began a new life as a shepherd. Forty years later, God appears to him in a