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Supposing any Egyptian captivity and Exodus at all, then Moses and Aaron and all the Hebrew &quot;officers&quot; (&quot;scribes&quot; or writers) under the Egyptian taskmasters (Ex. 5:6, 10, 14, 15, 19), brought up as they were in the scribal schools, were of course quite familiar with the Egyptian ways of keeping their books. It is not surprising, therefore, to find the first and chief provision which Moses made for the tabernacle was a book-chest for the preservation of the sacred directions given by Jehovah.

It makes little difference whether the account is taken in its final form, divided horizontally into Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Joshua, or