Genesis deals with the origin of the world, of man and of the people of Israel.
Exodus is an account of the epic journey of the Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land. Leviticus deals with ritual holiness and worship. Numbers takes it's name from censuses and lists of the Israelites. Deuteronomy, in three great discourses attributed to Moses, describes the later stages of the Exodus. Like the other volumes in the standard edition of the Navarre Bible, prepared by Navarre University theology faculty, this volume contains the full biblical text in the Revised Standard Version and the New Vulgate together with extensive commentaries.