UNDERSTANDING EXODUS | VITAL STATISTICS

0. Introduction

a) The Bible Book Introductions are divided into 4 parts (Overview, Vital Statistics, Blueprint, Mega-themes) for easy-to-understand.

1. Vital Statistics

@1. Purpose:

a) To record the events of Israel's deliverance from Egypt and development as a nation.

@2. Author:

a) Moses. 

@3. Date Written:

a) 1450-1410 B.C., approximately the same as Genesis.

@4. Where Written:

a) In the wilderness during Israel's wanderings, somewhere in the Sinai peninsula.

@5. Setting:

a) Egypt, God's people, once highly favored in the land, are now slaves. God is about to set them free.  

@6. Key Verse:

a)  And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” (Exodus 3:7-10 NKJV) 

@7. Key People:

a) Moses, Miriam, Pharaoh, Pharaoh's daughter, Jethro, Aaron, Joshua, Bezalel.

@8. Key Places:

a) Egypt, Goshen, Nile River, Midian, Red Sea, Sinai peninsula, Mount Sinai.


@9. Special Features:

a) Exodus relates more miracles than any other Old Testament book and is noted for containing the Ten Commandments. 

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