"... The ancestral story begins with the narrative of Abraham’s trek to Egypt, the danger to Sarah there, and the return to Canaan (Genesis 12:10–20). This narrative clearly evokes images of the Exodus event, and the vocabulary in the passage suggests that these associations are intentional: Pharaoh is struck (נגע) with plagues (verse 17), as in Exodus 11:1; he sends (שלח) Abraham and his entourage forth, echoing the key word in Exodus 5–11 (verse 20); even the commands to let Abraham and Moses go correspond to one another (קח ולך in Genesis 12:17 and קחו ולכו in Exodus 12:32). “In many respects, the episode is accordingly shaped as a prefiguration of the later exodus, as a piece of salvation history at the beginning of the history of Israel.” How one should evaluate this prefiguration is unclear at first glance. However, we can at least note that in diachronic terms Abraham does not prefigure Moses, but Moses is an epigone of Abraham ..."