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Chapter 6 19 And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations.20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.21 And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.22 And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.23 And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.24 And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korhites.25 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.26 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.27 These are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.28 And it came to pass on the day when the LORD spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt,29 That the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, I am the LORD: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.30 And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
Chapter 7 1 And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.2 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land.3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.4 But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.6 And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did they.7 And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.8 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
In Exodus Moses leads the Hebrews out of Egypt and through the wilderness to the Mountain of God: Mount Sinai. There God, through Moses, gives the Hebrews their laws and enters into a covenant with them, by which he will give them the land of Canaan in return for their faithfulness. The book ends with the construction of the Tabernacle.
According to tradition, Exodus and the other four books of the Torah were written by Moses. Modern biblical scholarship is divided over the question of how the book emerged into its final form although many believe that the book had multiple authors and was a product of the Exilic and Persian periods (6th and 5th centuries BCE). For fuller discussion, see Documentary hypothesis.
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