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Exodus in Genesis

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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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