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I'm Taylor. And I'm Tyler. This is Book of Mormon Central's. Come follow me insights. Today, Exodus

1 through 6. So before we dive into chapter 1 of Exodus, I think it might be helpful. If we take

a step back for a minute in quick overview, in review of what we've covered so far,

and then kind of a preview of what's coming up so we orient better into these first chapters of Exodus.

You'll notice that in the book of Genesis, which the word Genesis is this beginning idea, the initiation of something.

So what's happened here is this is traditionally referred to as the first of the five books

of Moses. One of the tasks that he had in front of him wasn't just to lead the children of Israel out

of Egypt, it was to also to go back and abridge a whole bunch of scripture, not just

like a thousand years of scripture, but we're talking 2,500 years of scripture, because

Moses is sometime around 1500,500 BC, 1400 BC, and so the

book of Genesis is simply Moses' abridgment of everything that came before him.

So you get the story of Adam and Eve and Enoch and Noah and

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. That's all Genesis is, is Moses giving us this abridgment

of these records. Now keep in mind, when Father Lehi takes the brass plates over to the New

World, we find out in Mosaic chapter 1 that those brass plates were written in which language?

Egyptian. And Nephi is writing in Egyptian and all the subsequent authors on the Book

of Mormon plates are writing in Egyptian or reform the subsequent authors on the Book of Mormon plates

are writing in Egyptian or reformed Egyptian by the time you get down to Moroni. He refers

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