Note from the Jerusalem Bible on the Exodus

The Jerusalem Bible (Doubleday, 1966) is an out-of-print Catholic translation with outstanding, informative footnotes. The following is an illuminating note about the Exodus concerning chapters 13 and 14:

This is the true beginning of the Exodus, that is to say the journey of God's people through the desert to the Promised Land; the prophets will look back on this time as the first days of God's marriage with his people, Jer. 2:2; Hosea 2:16+; 11:1f; Ezek 16:8. Throughout the Bible, Yahweh will be the one 'who brought his people out of Egypt', Jos 24:17; Amos 2:10; 3:1; Mal 6:4; Ps 81:10. The second part of Isaiah sees the return from Babylon as a second Exodus, Is. 40:3+. In Christian tradition, the crossing of the Reed (or Red) Sea and the forty years in the desert have been seen as types of Christ's baptism and forty days in the desert, and consequently as figures of Christian baptism and progress towards heaven.