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So, welcome to modern mind monoamine interesting book,

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where we

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explore one of the most important books in human history. Welcome to another episode of modern mind ancient book. Today we are going to be continuing our survey. This time on the book of Exodus, Doug, you ready for this. I am and I'm excited. Yes sir. So, the book of Exodus is a very important book. The foundation of the nation of what we call today, Israel, Doug, you care to elaborate on that.

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Well, it is a story of the nation of Israel, the story of how one man Abraham and his descendants, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, became a nation that nation is a nation of Israel.

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Yeah, and in this book picks up. Moses. Moses is the leader who arises in the book of Exodus. It's a very important distinction because Moses is a very important person in the nation of Israel. So the title of this book, Doug, what is it.

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Well, it depends on what language you're speaking, and the Greek it's Exodus and Hebrew, it's referred to as Shimon.

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That's right. And the title actually has two pretty different meanings. So she remote. These are the names and the English title, we say it's the going out, which is from the Septuagint or Greek translation of the Old Testament. Both derive their title from the few first few words of the book, who wrote this book.

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Well the traditional view is that Moses wrote the block. Now I do want you to be aware of the fact that other modern scholarship secular sources would say that Moses didn't, there's something called the documentary hypothesis, where there are different sources called J EDP, and we're going to ignore that and go with the more traditional view that Moses was the author. Yeah, just for the

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purposes of the survey we can most certainly delve into that I'm certainly familiar with that I've been through the strength and weaknesses of in fact I think I actually have a couple of reports on that. But the point isn't to bring into contest the authorship, but we can because history has shown us that the people who have cared for these documents over the millennia have taken good care of it archaeological finds find that the book is, indeed, copied very well. There are many copies, and the historical authorship of this book is Moses in both the Christian and the Jewish traditions, the Jewish being the most ancient in show we're willing to roll with the Exodus records historical events. It's a narrative from the birth of Moses, around 1526 BCE to the encampment of Israel in the Sinai wilderness somewhere around 1445 BC just like the book of Genesis was delivered to the Exodus generation, Exodus is also delivered to the Exodus generation. The compilation, the actual written portion of this was compiled somewhere between 1445 and 1405, B C E, would you like to add anything further to that.

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No, it's just important to have a general framework, in terms of what happened. You know a lot of the scholarship basis. The timeframe, off of Egyptian calendars and Egyptian events, but it's more important to understand the story and that's what we hope to do just a little bit today.

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Exodus is not like Genesis, it has a different reality it has a different purpose to it. The purpose of Exodus, is to encourage, what is shown to be the nation who goes into the land of Canaan, which is modern day Israel to take it to become a separate nation. They are going to enter an agreement. Now we've seen a few agreements take place you have an agreement with Abraham, which then brought us to Moses, and now you have Moses entering an agreement, as well or covenant. So Moses is creating a nation in Exodus is about that nation, becoming the nation that today is this room.

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When this happened. It was a quick geographic breakdown of where Exodus took place.

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Obviously, Egypt. So the Pharaoh. We can assume is most third and fourth was the pharaoh that this potentially happened under so Egypt had reached a peak and began to decline. The Bible records the Hebrews as being a labor force for the Egyptians. No. Moses was raised in the royal court. He was of a different class than the average person. He was a royal. However, he murdered an Egyptian and flat. Now he fled to the land of minion, where we meet Jethro, if you want to do some further reading in that, that'd be Exodus, two, and Jethro, is an important part of the formation of Israel, he was a priest of Midian. Do you care to expound on that a

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little bit. Well,

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there's a lot of speculation about jetboat because on one hand you would expect that is a priest, a median who would not necessarily believe in God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. On the other hand, if you look at his interaction with Moses and giving you advice. There may have been some type of understanding. Because he saw what God was doing with Moses, so it's not clear that he ever says I am now a believer in your guide Moses, but there may be some implied understanding that he did become a believer in the God of Moses.

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Yet, Jethro is an interesting character because he's a High Priest in Midian note. The interesting thing about it is, is that while there's no indication that he is a believer, there's no indication that he had a false religion according to Moses or the Hebrews. At that point, either so he's one of those characters in the book that you come across and kind of scratch your head and you say okay, I mean, it appears that maybe he worship, people for sure he worshiped correctly according to Moses because later on in chapter 18, Jethro is pretty supportive of everything that's going on in fact plays a part in the creation of the nation so Jethro is an interesting character. He's a priest that comes up, he's not part of the system that Moses in this book is going to command the people to create so this particular book, sees the creation of the Passover, which is an ancient tradition stemming from 14 145 BC to today, Jewish people still celebrate Passover. Very very important holiday.

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The Passover is very important because it concerns the killing of all the firstborn in the land of Egypt. Now the Lord told Moses that in order to be spared from the firstborn being killed that certain conditions were being made, were in by his people, the people of Moses would be passed over. So therefore, their children, their firstborn, would be spared.

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This is turning what the Egyptians did to the Hebrews, on its head. The young men of Israel were to be killed. They were not to continue on. That's why Moses became Moses. He was supposed to be killed but instead he was put in the water and then he was raised in the royal court, and know the God in the story has turned that point on its head, to the point that Passover became what Passover is, today, the Egyptians, lost their firstborn because they took the firstborn of the Hebrews, that's, that's interesting. And that's why we have this tradition it's there's there's a lot more in this book, to discover in regards to the plagues and etc, but we really got to move on, let's, let's go to the next. The next point.

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Where are we at in the story, Just to clarify, what you're saying, Roger, is that originally Pharaoh was going to kill all of the Israelites. After that, God said that He is going to kill the Egyptians, unless there was a Passover. Yes, the firstborn would die and less blood, put on the doorway.

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That's what it says. Now we get to the point where the nation is forming the actual point of Exodus, that really matters. So, we already knew, from Genesis that Israel or the Hebrews were being called out, but now we get to the legislative portion of what is the new nation, you could consider the book of Exodus, as something like a declaration of independence for the ancient Israelites. This is the book, where you see the agreement between Moses and God on behalf of and for the people. You see, the design of the tabernacle, or the tentative meeting, along with all of its individual furnishing will say, you see the institution and instruction of the priesthood, which comes from Moses his brother's genetic line. Aaron, you see the construction of the tabernacle and the creation of the Ark of the Covenant. And then you see God dwelling in this specific place with Israel orientated, in a specific way. This tribe here that tribe here this tribe here and where they camped around the tabernacle, or the tentative meeting. This is the beginning of the nation of Israel, with all of its religious expression. The Book of Exodus, is the creation

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of a nation.

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Very important. That's where the 10 commandments came from Roger. Good point. So the 10 commandments, let me just run through them briefly, because they're so prominent today's society, in terms of even the law that we have today. You shall have no other gods before you you show that make any graven images, you should not take the name of the Lord in vain. You should remember the Sabbath. You should not commit adultery, not steel should not bear false witness. And you should not cover

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the all important moral law that is still the basis. Today, of many of our own laws. We did it. The Book of Exodus, has been surveyed, Doug, how do you feel well. I feel like we didn't cover everything. Yes, there's just not enough time for that sort of thing but we will. Thanks for joining me again today, to the hearer, Thank you for joining us. Please share this podcast, we'd like to get it out to as many people as possible who have an interest in learning more about the Bible. Stay tuned for more dogs say goodbye. Goodbye, everybody. Have a wonderful week.

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