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The Book of Exodus: Liberated for Life in Covenant with God is a fourteen-lesson study of the Book of Exodus.

What is the first book in the Bible? Likely you don’t need to turn to the front of your Bible to answer, Genesis, of course.

In a sense, though, Exodus, not Genesis, is the first book in the Bible. The people of Israel would never have been interested in the message of the first book in the Bible if God had not delivered them from Egyptian bondage and made a covenant with them to be God’s people. Indeed, we might never have heard of a ragtag group of people called Israel had God not redeemed them from bondage. This redemption is described in the Book of Exodus.

The Book of Exodus begins with the Hebrews in life-threatening trouble—facing genocide, in fact. As on earlier occasions when it seemed God’s promises were about to be negated, God acted. Miraculously, Exodus concludes with the people having been liberated from slavery, “the glory of the LORD” filling the tabernacle, and God leading the people as they journeyed on toward the Promised Land (Exodus 40:34-38). In between the beginning and the end of Exodus were lessons for the people about following God. These lessons are yet available to us as well as we study the Book of Exodus.