I think Exodus is essentially God corporately revealing who I AM is through His actions and laws. God identifies Himself as the God who brought Israel up out of Egypt (Exodus 20:2) and as being merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7 keeping steadfast love for thousands,[a] forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation (Exodus 36:6-7).