In the book of Exodus the promises made to the patriarchs begin to see their fulfillment: Yahweh takes a people for himself and comes to dwell among them. He is not a distant deity but a God who speaks and acts to deliver his people from oppression.

In this two-volume commentary Eugene Carpenter works closely with the Hebrew text to trace those themes through the book, and discusses how the key theological concepts of Exodus bear on the rest of Scripture. This first volume covers chapters one to eighteen - Egypt, the plagues, the Passover and the sea. Part of the Evangelical Exegetical Commentary series.