Explore texts tagged with Exodus in Genesis
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Genesis 11:3
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Exodus 1:14
Genesis 11:3
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Exodus 5:7
Genesis 11:8
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Exodus 5:12
Genesis 12:17
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Exodus 11:1
Genesis 12:20
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Exodus 12:32
Genesis 13:2
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Exodus 12:35
Genesis 15:13
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Exodus 1:11
Genesis 15:13
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Exodus 1:11
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Exodus 2:22
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Exodus 12:40
Genesis 15:13
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Exodus 2:22
Genesis 15:13
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Exodus 12:40
Genesis 46:2
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Exodus 3:4
Genesis 47:11
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Exodus 1:11
Genesis 50:25
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Exodus 13:19
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Several narratives in Genesis are deliberately shaped and edited so that they anticipate Israel’s later departure from Egypt. Abraham goes down to Egypt during a famine, Pharaoh is struck with plagues, and the patriarch leaves enriched with silver and gold, following the same sequence the nation will trace in the Exodus. The covenant in Genesis 15 predicts four hundred years of slavery and a departure with great wealth, and the Joseph story carries the family down to Egypt and swears to bring Joseph’s bones back out. This repetition presents the founding deliverance as a pattern already visible in the ancestors’ lives, so that the family’s story prefigures the nation’s.
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