Exodus
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Exodus is the name of the second book of the Old Testament as well as of the ‘ ’Torah’ ’ (Pentateuch, Five Books of Moses). It means ‘’going out’’ and was probably suggested by Exodus 19:1, where the Septuagint (LXX, the Greek translation of the Old Testament) uses ‘ ’exodou’ ’ (Genitive: ‘ ’of the going out’ ’), which was also taken up by the Latin Vulgate as the name of the book ' 'Exodus.' ' In Hebrew, this book is called ‘ ’šemot’ ’ (‘ ’names’ ’), following the tradition of naming biblical books by the first word, or one of the first, in the book’s opening; in this case, “These are the ‘ ’names’ ’ of the sons of Israel” (Exodus 1:1).
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