Neville Goddard on Exodus 12:40-41 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 12 in context

Scripture Focus

40Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

41And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:40-41

Biblical Context

The passage states that the Israelites' sojourn in Egypt lasted 430 years, and on that exact day the hosts of the LORD departed from the land.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider Exodus 12:40-41 as a study in consciousness. The four hundred thirty years is not merely time passed but a long holding pattern of belief—an inner bondage you have accepted as real. Egypt is the felt sense of limitation, the sojourning a state of mind you have not yet questioned. When the script says the selfsame day it came to pass, it declares the precise moment your consciousness decides to awaken: the hosts of the LORD—your faculties of Faith, Imagination, and Power—step forth from the land of old conditioning. Liberation is not a distant event in space; it is the moment you cease identifying with the old story and begin identifying with the I AM that you are. The exodus is an inner movement: belief gives way to awareness, fear to love, and limitation to possibility. Your inner exodus occurs at the turn of your attention from lack to fullness, and the outer world aligns to reflect that inner state.