All 7 Uses of

exodus
in
The Poisonwood Bible

Plain and simple, that was the source of our exodus: I had to keep moving.
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exodus = departure by a lot of people

I have only the haziest recollection of waving at my mother and sister in a rising cloud of diesel exhaust and mosquitoes as they began their slow, permanent exodus from the Congo.
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Carry us, marry us, ferry us, bury us: those are our four ways to exodus, for now.
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Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:

Book Five EXODUS ...And ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
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exodus = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles

EXODUS 13:19-22 Orleanna Price SANDERLING ISLAND, GEORGIA A S LONG AS I KEPT MOVING, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water.
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The Pharaoh died, says Exodus, and the children of Israel sighed by reason of their bondage.
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Did America shift under my feet, or did it stand still while I stomped along my road toward whatever I'm chasing, following a column of smoke through my own Exodus?
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Definitions:

(1) (exodus)
a departure by a lot of people

When used as a proper noun (capitalized), "Exodus" typically references the second book of the Old Testament or the story it includes about the departure of the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

As a proper noun, Exodus can refer to:
- a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
- the story of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt from that book
- the name of a 1960 movie
- the name of various firms