Book of Exodus

The Book of Exodus is the second book of the Bible and a narrative of the Exodus, the origin myth of the Israelites leaving slavery in Biblical Egypt through the strength of their deity Yahweh. The Israelites journey with Moses to Mount Sinai, where Yahweh gives the Ten Commandments and they enter into a covenant with Yahweh, who promises to make them a "holy nation, and a kingdom of priests". The book is traditionally ascribed to Moses himself, but modern scholars see its initial composition as a product of the Babylonian exile, based on earlier written sources and oral traditions, with final revisions in the Persian post-exilic period. The consensus of modern scholars is that the Pentateuch does not give an accurate account of the origins of the Israelites, who appear to have formed as an entity in the central highlands of Canaan in the late second millennium BCE from the indigenous Canaanite culture. The historicity of the Exodus account is disputed, with most mainstream scholars not accepting it as historical, but a majority of scholars believing that the story has an historical core, though disagreeing widely about what that historical kernel might have been.learn more on wikipedia