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This volume presents the written Word of God in a highly readable, accurate translation, excellent for personal and group study. Extensive study notes, topical essays, and word studies provide fresh and faithful insights informed by time-tested, authentically Catholic interpretations from the Fathers of the Church and other scholars. They also provide rich historical, cultural, geographical, and...

1:1–6 The opening lines of Exodus summarize the final chapters of Genesis, which narrate how Jacob and his family came to dwell in Egypt. 1:5 seventy: This number appears several times in the Hebrew Pentateuch (also in Gen 46:27; Deut 10:22). It hints that the family of Israel represents the world family that divided into 70 nations after the flood (Gen 10:1–32). The figure is given as 75 descendants in the Greek LXX version of Exodus,
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