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It's when they left Egypt and it was and still is today important to them because that's when the Pharaoh let the Jews free and they returned to Israel.


Exodus roughly translated as "leaving" or "to go out of". At the beginning of the story of Exodus the Hebrew people are slaves in Egypt under terrible conditions. Eventually Moses leads them out of Egypt to freedom in their own land, and establishes the Jewish religion.
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The Exodus was important to Israelites because that meant that they were able to escape of the Egyptians and be freed by Moses.

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The Exodus from Egypt was important to the Israelites because it was their birth as a distinct nation and it was a preface to the Giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai.

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The Book of Exodus describes the Exodus as a journey whereby Moses led his people out of slavery in Egypt. The Exodus can be regarded as purely legendary, as more than ninety per cent of scholars are reported to believe that the Exodus never really happened. Therefore its importance should be measured not in terms of what might really have happened, but in terms of why the legend arose and what its impact would be on Hebrew society.

The Israelites are now known to have been descended from Canaanites who left the coastal cities and plains to try their luck in the hitherto sparsely populated and mountainous interior. Although this internal migration seems to have been peaceful, with few scholars regarding it as a revolt, considerable antipathy seems to have developed towards the Canaanites wh remained behind. The story of the Exodus no doubt helped give the Israelites a different history and one they could be proud of; it also showed that God was fulfilling the covenant in the story of Abraham.

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It marks the transition of the Israelites from a family into a distinct nation.

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