The Israelites were in captivity in Egypt for hundreds of years. It was not until God summoned Moses to deliver them from the Pharaoh of Egypt did they escape this incarceration. Shortly after crossing the Red Sea the Israelites entered the forty-year time period known as the Exodus. Exodus literally means “out of homeland”; this term has been applied to many recent events that have happened in the past half-century. Migration is the movement of one people to another land; in the case of