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Exodus has a bit of everything, from thrilling fire and brimstone stories to (we'll admit it) super-boring legal text.
Put it all together, and we get a taste of everything a new society needs to function: stories on which to base national pride (we were freed from Egypt by God!); laws (and laws…and laws); and hey, why not some poetry to top it all off?
Remember that all of these layers don't necessarily come from the same writer, or even the same era. Let's take a look:
Bottom line: you can't write the entire history of a people in a day. And when you piece bits together, you're bound to get some idiosyncrasies. But what's a good story without some idiosyncrasies?