The Book of Exodus is the second book of the Bible. It is the first part of the narrative of the Exodus, the origin of the Israelites, in which they leave slavery in Biblical Egypt through the strength of God who chose them as his people. The Israelites then journey with the prophet Moses to Mount Sinai, where God gives the Ten Commandments and they enter into a covenant with God, who promises to make them a "holy nation, and a kingdom of priests" on condition of their faithfulness. He gives them laws and instructions to build the Tabernacle, the means by which he will come from heaven and dwell with them and lead them in a holy war to conquer Canaan (the "Promised Land"), which has earlier, according to the Book of Genesis, been promised to the "seed" of Abraham, the patriarch of the Israelites.