After the 10th plague, Pharaoh let the people go. Exod 12:30-32 (KJV) 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for [there was] not a house where [there was] not one dead. 31 And he called for Moses …
The Egyptian civilization has been one of the longest lasting civilizations in human history. In ancient times, it had been a powerhouse and dominated the entire Middle Eastern region for thousands of years. “For almost 30 centuries—from its unification around 3100 B.C. to its conquest by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.—ancient Egypt was the …
William wrote: ↑Fri May 20, 2022 4:36 pm [Replying to otseng in post #1064] Out of interest, what was the number of individuals who were part of the alleged exodus? In several passages, the number of Israelites that left Egypt is in the range of 600,000 men. Adding in women and children, probably in the …
The Israelites were to take a lamb/goat under one year of age and to sacrifice it. Then they were to take the blood and put it on their doorposts and to also eat the meat. Ex 12:3-7 (KJV) 3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth [day] of this month …
The Passover and the Feast of Unleavened bread was instituted during the Exodus. Exod 12:11-13 (KJV) 11 And thus shall ye eat it; [with] your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it [is] the LORD’s passover. 12 For I will pass …
Another alignment that better fits with the early date than the late date is the drowning of the Egyptian army. With the loss of most of the Egyptian military in the Red Sea, it would’ve been a blow to their military power. And what we see in the early dating of the Exodus is the …
Non-Biblical accounts of the exodus out of Egypt. Hecataeus “The earliest non-biblical account is that of Hecataeus of Abdera (c. 320 BCE), as preserved in the first century CE Jewish historian Josephus in his work Against Apion and in a variant version by the first-century BCE Greek historian Diodorus.[88] Hecataeus tells how the Egyptians blamed …
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Similarities of the plagues in the Exodus account was written by the Egyptians in 19th Dynasty, the Admonitions of Ipuwer (Ipuwer Papyrus). “The Ipuwer Papyrus has been dated no earlier than the Nineteenth Dynasty, around 1250 BCE.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipuwer_Papyrus The Ipuwer Papyrus was written by a royal Egyptian scribe of the same name. He tells a …
Another point that the early date aligns better than the late date of the Exodus is the death of the firstborn son of Pharaoh. As with all events that were embarassing to the Egyptians, they commonly erased them from their records. For the early date, Amenhotep II would be the Pharaoh of the Exodus. Thutmose …
One reason I went into such detail about the plagues is to show whoever wrote the Exodus account had an intimate knowledge of the Egyptian religion. It was not just a simple story of 10 bad things happening as children’s Sunday school lessons typically portray. Readers that lived in the Egyptian New Kingdom period would’ve …