Let's organize our brains and gage the timing of the book of Exodus (greek for "way out") ::
Joseph's death, end of book of Genesis = 1804 b.c.
Start of slavery in Egypt, start of Exodus = 1875 b.c.
Moses born = 1525 b.c.
Moses' exile in Midian = 1485 b.c.
Jews delivered from Egypt = 1445 b.c.
End of wanderings in the wilderness = 1405 b.c.
The deliverance in Exodus fulfills the promise found in Genesis 15:13-14 ::
"Then the LORD said to him, 'Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.'"
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