There are two major themes in Exodus. First is the theme of deliverance. God crashes into human history and delivers his people from their slavery in Egypt. “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt” (e.g., Exod. 20:2) will be one of the central ways that God describes himself throughout the rest of the Old Testament. The deliverance of Israel from Egypt in the book of Exodus is the prototypical example of what salvation is in the
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