• Title Page
• Pentateuch
  • Lesson 1: Genesis 1–11
  • Lesson 2: Genesis 12:1–28:15
  • Lesson 3: Genesis 28–50
  • Lesson 4: Exodus 1–19
    • Proof from Recent Explorations
    • The Facts of the Chapters
    • Things to be Explained
    • Things to be Noticed
    • The Passover a Type of Redemption
  • Lesson 5: Exodus 20–40
  • Lesson 6: Leviticus
  • Lesson 7: Numbers 1–19
  • Lesson 8: Numbers 20–36
  • Lesson 9: Deuteronomy
• History
• Poetry
• Prophets
• Post Captivity Prophets
• Gospels, Acts
• Pauline Epistles
• General Epistles

• Human Types—
  • Adam
  • Noah
  • Melchisedec
  • Isaac
  • Joseph
• General Types—
  • Light
  • Coat of skins
  • Ark
  • Ram
  • Ladder

Exodus 1-19

Genesis has sometimes been called the book of beginnings, which is the real meaning of the word, because of the nature of its contents, which give the origin of things. We have in it the beginning of the world, of man, of the Sabbath, marriage, sin, prophecy, and sacrifice, as well as the beginning of the nations and Israel. This brings us down to the twelfth chapter, but after that practically there are no beginnings, but only a recurrence of, what has gone before.

Exodus in the same way has sometimes been called the book of the departure or the going out, from the etymology of the word, and also because it gives the history of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt.

The Israelites entered Egypt when Joseph was in power, seventy souls in all (Genesis 46:27). They left there 215 years afterward, according to the chronology in the margin of our Bibles, when their men of war alone numbered 603,550, not counting women and children, not counting men under 20, and also leaving out of consideration the whole tribe of Levi (Numbers 1:44-50). During this period their experiences had varied. While Joseph lived and the Pharaohs of that period, they were happy and prosperous in the land of Goshen. But by-and-by a change of dynasty occurred, and political revolution took place, and the new government viewed their increasing numbers and influence with alarm and jealousy. In consequence they began to subject them in every possible way, and it is at this point in their history the book of Exodus begins (Exodus 1:7-10).

Proof from Recent Explorations

Allusion was made in an earlier lesson to the way in which recent explorations in Bible lands throw light upon these historical statements in the Word of God, and this is particularly true of the present period. “It would be easy,” says an authority on the subject, “to multiply illustrations from the ancient records of