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(ix) All the parts show the distinction between Ani 



as the imperious and emphatic form of the personal pronoun, 

 and the condescending or deprecatory form Anokhi {^^2^). 



(x) All the parts preserve the distinction between Jehovah 

 (mn*'), the personal Covenant Name, connoting the relation 

 of God to man and especially the Chosen Family, and Elohvm 



), the Grod of creation and all nations. 

 In Genesis and Exodus Elohhn is several times found with 



the definite article DTl^t^n, indicating the only true 

 God, particularly in the Egyptian history and at the Burning 

 Bush. The same use is found three times in connection with 

 Jethro* and twice in connection with Balaam. In Deuteronomy 

 it occurs four times where the teaching that God is the only 

 true God is emphasized. 



(e) Plan. 



Taking the Pentateuch as a whole, a single purpose, slowly 

 but consistently developed, is observable. 



The earliest chapters, Gen. i-vi, lay down briefly but broadly 

 the foundations of the Creation, the Fall, and consequent rapid 

 corruption of the human race. Then chapters vii-xi narrate 

 the Deluge, the fresh start after it, and again a rapid multiplica- 

 tion and deterioration. The remainder of the book is occupied 

 wdth the selection of a particular family and its history down 

 to the sojourn in Egypt. 



The other four books deal with the enfranchisement of that 

 family, now become a great nation, and its education and dis- 

 cipline in the Wilderness. The earlier part of Exodus narrates 

 the sufferings and miraculous deliverance from servitude of the 

 People ; the latter part, the great Theophany at Sinai, the 

 ratification of the Covenant, and the erection of the Tabernacle 

 to be the Dwelling of the Divine Presence in the midst of the 

 People. Leviticus carries on the tale with the laws of sacrificial 

 ceremonial, the inauguration of the priesthood and consecration 

 of the Sanctuary ; then laws as to various forms of defilement, 

 culminating in the purificatory rites of the Day of Atonement ; 

 and lastly laws to ensure the right conduct of the People. 

 Numbers begins with the preliminary census, and carries on 



* In one verse, Exod. xviii, 11, Jethro uses the term for " the gods," 

 where he acknowledges the supremacy of Jehovah. 



