Shemot
Shemot (Hebrew, 'names') may refer to: * Book of Exodus, or Shemot * Shemot (parashah) Shemot, Shemoth, or Shemos (, 'names'; second and incipit word of the parashah) is the thirteenth weekly Torah portion (, ''parashah'') in the annual Judaism, Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the first in the Book of Exodus. It constitutes Exod ...

Book Of Exodus
The Book of Exodus (from ; ''Šəmōṯ'', 'Names'; ) is the second book of the Bible. It is the first part of the narrative of the Exodus, the origin myth of the Israelites, in which they leave slavery in Biblical Egypt through the strength of Yahweh, their deity, who according to the story Chosen people, chose them as his people. The Israelites then journey with the prophet Moses to biblical Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai, where Yahweh gives the Ten Commandments and they enter into a Mosaic covenant, covenant with Yahweh, who promises to make them a "holy nation, and a kingdom of priests" on condition of their faithfulness. He gives them laws and instructions to build the Tabernacle, the means by which he will come from heaven and dwell with them and lead them in a holy war to conquer Canaan (the "Promised Land"), which has earlier, according to the Book of Genesis, been promised to the "seed" of Abraham, the patriarch of the Israelites. Though traditionally Mosaic authorship, ascri ...
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