There is the overt and the covert meaning to the events described in the book of Exodus. Overtly, it is the dramatic story of the call of Moses to lead the people of Israel—a desperate, disparate group of clans who had been slaves in Egypt for four hundred years—out of Egypt to covenant with the God of their ancestors at Mt. Sinai, on the way to a “promised land”, not however reached in the Book of Exodus itself.
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