Exodus is the advancement of God’s purposes and promises laid out in Genesis. His dominion over creation is reasserted: the Israelites multiply as Adam and Eve were commissioned and Abraham was promised, He displays His power over nature through the plagues, and triumphs over Pharaoh and false gods. God discloses Himself (“that Egypt and Israel may know that I am the LORD”) by judging His enemies and by creating a “new Eden”, a new people under God’s rule, among whom He comes to dwell. He re-commissions His people to spread His glory throughout the earth as a “kingdom of priests” (as Adam failed to do). In doing this, He keeps His word to Abraham to make him a people and bless all the nations of the earth through him.