Known mainly for his dazzling theological poetry, the Syriac writer St Ephrem also produced commentaries on the Diatessaron (Gospel Harmony) and the books of Genesis and Exodus that were of great influence on the work of later generations of Syriac writers. That on Exodus is easily the shortest (it may represent lecture notes taken down by a disciple of Ephrem), but it shares two prominent features with the much longer Genesis commentary, namely a strong interest in the female characters of the biblical narrative, and many parallels with Jewish biblical interpretation of the same period. Probably dating from the third quarter of the fourth century and written in Edessa (modern Urfa in south east Turkey), this represents the earliest surviving Syriac commentary on Exodus. This modern English translation of the work is a revised edition of an earlier publication, including notes on the rendering, biblical references, and Jewish parallels to Ephrem’s interpretation.