{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_web_exo_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_web_exo_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_web_exo_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/web/exo.htm","summary":"This is the opening chapters (1\u20134) of the Book of Exodus, the second book of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, a foundational text of the Jewish and Christian scriptural traditions. It opens by establishing the historical situation: the Israelites, descendants of Jacob's sons who settled in Egypt, have grown numerous enough to alarm a new Pharaoh, who enslaves them and orders the killing of newborn Hebrew boys. The narrative then follows Moses from his hidden birth and rescue by Pharaoh's daughter, through his killing of an Egyptian overseer and flight to Midian, to his encounter with God at the burning bush, where Yahweh reveals the divine name \"I AM WHO I AM\" and commissions Moses to lead Israel out of Egypt. A distinctive element of this passage is Moses' prolonged resistance to his calling \u2014 he raises five successive objections (unworthiness, ignorance of God's name, disbelief of the people, lack of eloquence, and a final plea for a substitute), to which God responds with signs, promises, and ultimately the appointment of Aaron as spokesman. The text presents liberation theology in an early form: God's intervention is explicitly motivated by having heard the cry of the oppressed and remembered a covenant, framing divine action as a response to suffering rather than national power or merit.","tags":["English Bible Translations","Modern Bible Translations","New Testament"],"text":null,"title":"World English Bible: Exodus","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":32006}