Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt. They had been slaves for four hundred years. They were about to leave.

Out of Egypt is the second volume in the Holy Bible Series — a complete narrative retelling of the Exodus, the wilderness, and the conquest of Canaan, drawn from Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Joshua, and told with the full literary weight of the American Standard Version.

Inside this volume:

The Bondage — These are the names. A new Pharaoh arose who did not know Joseph. Four hundred years of slavery. Bricks without straw. Midwives who feared God more than they feared the king. A basket set among the reeds of the Nile.

The Burning Bush — A shepherd at the back of the wilderness. A fire that did not consume. I AM WHO I AM. Five objections, one commission. The man who did not want to go went.

The Passover — Blood on the doorposts. Bread unleavened. This day shall be for you a memorial. The tenth plague at midnight. A great cry throughout all Egypt. Rise up, get you forth from among my people. Four hundred and thirty years, ended in a night.

The Final Charge — Moses at a hundred and twenty years old, his eye undimmed, his vigor unabated. Three farewell addresses. The Shema: Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah. Mount Nebo. The land visible from the mountain. The burial that no one witnessed.

Scripture drawn from the American Standard Version (1901) — one of the most faithful and literary English translations of the biblical text.

This is not a retelling that softens the story. The golden calf is at the foot of the mountain where the law was given. Moses dies within sight of the land he cannot enter. The grasshopper generation is buried in the wilderness. Out of Egypt presents the full narrative — the glory and the failure, the miracles and the complaints, the covenant made and broken and renewed — because that is what the Scripture preserves.

This is the Bible as it was always meant to be heard.