Exodus

The English word "exodus" carries the plain sense of a people's organized departure from one land and resettlement in another. The umbrella collects two distinct uses of that idea: an early-tribal migration filed in Genesis, and the exodus of Israel from Egypt — a much larger movement treated under Israel, Moses, Egypt, Passover, and the Red Sea crossing.

Migration of early tribes

After the flood, the line of Noah's descendants moves as a group from one region to another in search of habitable ground: "And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there" (Gen 11:2). Two notes are worth keeping: the verbs are plural and collective ("they journeyed," "they found," "they dwelt"), and the migration ends not in further travel but in settlement on a plain. The eastward journey to Shinar is the immediate setting for the building project that follows in the rest of the chapter, but the verse itself records simply the corporate movement of a people from one place to another and their decision to stay.

Israel out of Egypt

The umbrella's second and larger sense — the Israelite exodus — is treated where its narrative belongs: in the Israel account, in Moses' commission and leadership, in the plagues of Egypt, the institution of the Passover, and the crossing of the Red Sea. Readers tracing the departure from Egypt should follow those topics; the present page only fixes the word's wider lexical use.