Exodus 2
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Summary
Moses is born to Israelite parents, and raised by Pharaoh’s daughter. When he grows up, he kills an Egyptian who is attacking an Israelite slave, and then runs away. He marries Zipporah, and God hears the cries of the Israelites in bondage.
Commentary
Bible Central Commentary
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Wally Breitenstein, “Exodus 1–6,” in Exodus, Old Testament Minute Commentary Series, ed. Taylor Halverson (Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central, 2021).
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See Biblical Chronology- 1486 BC*
Further Reading
Nathan J. Arp, “Joseph Knew First: Moses, The Egyptian Son,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-Day Saint Faith and Scholarship 32 (2019): 187–198.
Bruce J. Boehm, “Wanderers in the Promised Land: A Study of the Exodus Motif in the Book of Mormon and Holy Bible,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 3, no. 1 (1994): 187–203.
John Hilton III and Lani Hilton, “Motherhood in the Old Testament,” in The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament, The 38th Annual BYU Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009), 32–47.
L. Michael Morales, “The Tabernacle: Mountain of God in the Cultus of Israel,” in Ancient Temple Worship: Proceedings of The Expound Symposium 14 May 2011, ed. Matthew B. Brown, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Stephen D. Ricks, and John S. Thompson (Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation; Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2014), 27–70.
Noel B. Reynolds, “The Israelite Background of Moses Typology in the Book of Mormon,” BYU Studies 44, no. 2 (2005): 4–23.
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