In the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, Aaron ( or ; Ahărōn, Hārūn, Greek ( Septuagint ): Ααρών ), who is often called "' Aaron the Priest "' () and once Aaron the Levite () ( Exodus 4: 14 ), was the older brother of Moses, ( Exodus 6: 16-20, 7: 7 ; Qur ' an 28: 34 ) and a prophet of God.

At the battle with Amalek, he is chosen with Hur to support the hand of Moses that held the " rod of God " ( Exodus 17: 9 ).

( It should be noted that in the account given of the same events, in rabbinic sources ( b. Talmud Shabbat 99a ; Exodus Rabbah 41 ) and in the Qur ' an, Aaron is not the idol-maker and upon Moses ' return begged his pardon as he had felt mortally threatened by the Israelites ( Quran 7: 142-152 ).

About a fifth of the law code is taken up by Alfred's introduction, which includes translations into English of the Decalogue, a few chapters from the Book of Exodus, and the " Apostolic Letter " from Acts of the Apostles ( 15: 23 – 29 ).

In the Book of Exodus, Amram () Arabic عمران Imran, is the father of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam and the husband of Jochebed.

Aron Habrit ), also known as the Ark of the Testimony, is a chest described in Book of Exodus as containing the Tablets of Stone on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed and pieces of manna.

The Book of Exodus gives detailed instructions on how the Ark is to be constructed.

The Ark is first mentioned in the Book of Exodus, and then numerous times in Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, I Samuel, II Samuel, I Kings, I Chronicles, II Chronicles, Psalms and Jeremiah.

A central theme in Second Isaiah is that of a new Exodus – the return of the exiled people Israel from Babylon to Jerusalem.

This new Exodus is repeatedly linked with Israel's Exodus from Egypt to Canaan under divine guidance, but with new elements.

The book is as intriguing for the themes it leaves out as for what it includes: the ark of the covenant, which is given so much importance in the stories of Moses and Joshua, is almost entirely missing, cooperation between the various tribes is limited, and there is no mention of a central shrine for worship or of a high priest ( the office to which Aaron was appointed at the end of the Exodus story ).

The centrepiece of Solomon's reign is the building of the First Temple: the claim that this took place 480 years after the Exodus from Egypt marks it as a key event in Israel's history.

According to Hugh S. Pyper, the biblical " founding myths of the Exodus and the exile, read as stories in which a nation is forged by maintaining its ideological and racial purity in the face of an oppressive great power ", entered " the rhetoric of nationalism throughout European history ", especially in Protestant countries and smaller nations.

Xavier is kidnapped by Exodus, Tempo, and Karima Shapandar.

Exodus finally approaches Magneto, who is apparently still depowered, for help.

In the tradition of Holy Writ, the impossibility of coming face to face with God is a recurring motif, thus the commandment against graven images ( Exodus 20. 4-5 ).

Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection.

The Book of Exodus or, simply, Exodus ( from Greek ἔξοδος, Exodos, meaning " going out ";, Šemot, " Names "), is the second book of the Hebrew Bible, and of the five books of the Torah ( the Pentateuch ).

Translations in the paraphrase of the Aramaic Targumic interpretations include " friend " in Targum Yonathan to 2 Kings 10: 11, " master " in Targum to Amos 7: 10, and " minister " in Mechilta to Parshah Jethro, Exodus 18: 1 – 20: 23 1: 1.

An example is Targum Neofiti's paraphrase of Exodus 15: 18.

He wrote biblical commentaries on the Diatessaron ( the single gospel harmony of the early Syriac church ), on Genesis and Exodus, and on the Acts of the Apostles and Pauline Epistles.

However the date of the Exodus is disputed, and it is not definitive whether the setting of the biblical Exodus event is prior to or following Akhenaten's reign.

The existence of Moses as well as the veracity of the Exodus story is disputed amongst archaeologists and Egyptologists, with experts in the field of biblical criticism citing logical inconsistencies, new archaeological evidence, historical evidence, and related origin myths in Canaanite culture.

The question of the historicity of the Exodus ( specifically, the Pharaoh of the Exodus, identification of which would connect the biblical narrative to Egyptological chronology ) has long been debated, without conclusive result.

Many biblical scholars are prepared to admit that there may be a historical core beneath the Exodus and Sinai traditions, even if the biblical narrative dramatizes by portraying as a single event what was more likely a gradual process of migration and conquest.

Martin Noth holds that two different groups experienced the Exodus and Sinai events, and each group transmitted its own stories independently of the other one, writing that " The biblical story tracing the Hebrews from Egypt to Canaan resulted from an editor's weaving separate themes and traditions around a main character Moses, actually an obscure person from Moab.

William Albright held a more favorable view towards the traditional views regarding Moses, and accepted the essence of the biblical story, as narrated between Exodus 1: 8 and Deuteronomy 34: 12, but recognized the impact that centuries of oral and written transmission have had on the account, causing it to acquire layers of accretions.

The biblical regulations pertaining to the original Passover also include how the meal is to be eaten: " with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand ; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the's passover " ( Exodus 12: 11 ).

Instead, the Tahash animal ( Exodus 25, 26, 35, 36 and 39 ; Numbers 4 ; and Ezekiel 16: 10 ) was thought to be a kosher unicorn with a coat of many colors that only existed in biblical times.

The biblical books Exodus and Numeri refer to Pi-hahiroth as the place where the Israelites encamped between Baal-zephon and Migdol while awaiting an attack by Pharaoh, prior to crossing the Red Sea.

A 2006 documentary film by Simcha Jacobovici, The Exodus Decoded, suggests that the Santorini Island volcanic eruption ( c. 1623 BC, +/- 25 ) caused all the biblical plagues described against Egypt, re-dating the eruption to c. 1500 BC.

* biblical maximalism — which holds that also the historical accounts of the Exodus, Judges and United Monarchy, king David and king Saul, are to be taken as largely accurate

There is conjecture among western biblical scholars that Jubilees may be a rework of material found in the canonical books of Genesis and Exodus.

The large quantity of manuscripts ( more than for any biblical books except for Psalms, Deuteronomy, Isaiah, Exodus, and Genesis, in descending order ) indicates that Jubilees was widely used at Qumran.

In biblical times, because unmarried females who lost their virginity had also lost much of their value as marriage prospects, the Old Testament Book of Exodus specifies that the seducer must marry his victim or pay her father to compensate him for his loss of the marriage price: " And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

Black immigrations to and within Canada have been compared to a biblical journey beginning with Lamentations and ending with Exodus.

The principal fragments of his biblical works include Genesis, Exodus, Psalms, Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, and Hebrews, and are interesting specimens of 5th century exegesis.

According to traditional rabbinic biblical chronology, Moses was 80 years old when the Exodus occurred, the Israelites had been in Egypt for 210 years in total, and thus in combination with the rabbinical claim that Jochebed was born on the border of Egypt, as her parents had entered it, this would require Jochebed to have been 130 years old when she gave birth to Moses ; rabbinical literature regards this to have been alluded to by the biblical description of the dedication of the Israelite altar, at which 130 shekel weight of silver was offered.

Although it was once believed that slaves built these monuments, a theory based on the biblical Exodus story, study of the tombs of the workmen, who oversaw construction on the pyramids, has shown they were built by a corvée of peasants drawn from across Egypt.

The name is that given in Scripture for Mount Sinai where the Jews encamped for a year in biblical times ( Exodus 3: 1 and Psalms 106: 19 ), now the modern range called the Jebel Musa (" Mount of Moses " in Arabic ).

It was in this period that the Pentateuch ( or Torah, to give the Hebrew name ) was composed, by detaching the book of Deuteronomy from the Deuteronomistic history and adding it to the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers.

Carol Meyers in her commentary on Exodus suggests that it is arguably the most important book in the bible, as it presents the defining features of Israel's identity: memories of a past marked by hardship and escape, a binding covenant with the God who chooses Israel, and the establishment of the life of the community and the guidelines for sustaining it.

The book of Exodus is not historical narrative in any modern sense.

The " patriarchal history " recounts the events of the major patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to whom God reveals himself and to whom the promise of descendants and land is made, while the story of Joseph serves to take the Israelites into Egypt in preparation for the next book, Exodus.

The first covenant is between God and all living creatures, and is marked by the sign of the rainbow ; the second is with the descendants of Abraham ( Ishmaelites and others as well as Israelites ), and its sign is circumcision ; and the last, which doesn't appear until the book of Exodus, is with Israel alone, and its sign is Sabbath.

Similar passages include, for example, Exodus 17: 14, " And YHWH said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven ;" Exodus 24: 4, " And Moses wrote all the words of YHWH, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel ;" Exodus 34: 27, " And Yahweh said unto Moses, Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel ;" and " These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the LORD established on Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.

This book was published in three volumes: Volume 1 on Bereishit ( Genesis ), Volume 2 on Shemot ( Exodus ) and Volume 3 on Viyikra, Bamidbar and Devarim ( Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy ).

According to the book of Exodus, Aaron and his sons were the first priests appointed as the priestly system was established by God.

Because the Lord promised to " blot out the name " of Amalek ( Exodus 17: 14 ), it is customary when the book of Esther is read at the Purim festival, for the audience to make noise whenever " Haman " is mentioned, so that his name is not heard.

* Plagues of Egypt, the 10 calamities that God inflicted on Egypt in the book of Exodus

According to the book of Exodus, manna is white, like Coriander seed.

' In the book of Exodus, God tells Moses that his name is Yahweh, and God hasn't had a peaceful moment since.

Yvonne M. Conde, also a Pedro Pan, conducted research and interviews and wrote a book titled " Operation Pedro Pan: The Untold Exodus of 14, 048 Cuban Children ".

* Sarajevo, Exodus of a City, a book by Dzevad Karahasan

Similarly he claimed that archaeology had proved the essential historicity of the Book of Exodus, and the conquest of Canaan as described in the book of Joshua and the book of Judges.

It is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible book of Exodus 30: 34, where it is named levonah ( lebonah in the Biblical Hebrew ), meaning " white " in Hebrew.

The story of Jochebed is found in the second book of the Torah ( Exodus 2: 1 – 10 ).

Jochebed is identified by some rabbis in the Talmud with Shiphrah, one of the midwives described by the book of Exodus as being ordered by Pharaoh to kill the new-born male children.

* The Book of Exodus is the second book of the Hebrew and the Christian Bible