(July 18, 2011 at 12:55 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:After all of the plagues, Egyptians were imploring the Pharaoh to let the slaves go. After much of their crop and animals have died, the people of Israel were set free. It makes sense to think that other Egyptian people would leave with the slaves after see the power of the true God and how the Egyptian gods have forsaken them.(July 18, 2011 at 12:39 pm)TheCarlisle Wrote: Yes that does seem a stretch.
Oh, did I mention zero infant mortality has to be part of the math? Plus we haven't factored in the Egyptian massacre of Jewish male babies at the time Moses was born?
Quote:However, there were more than just descendants of Jacob who left, there were other slaves and even Egyptians. Nowhere does it say that 600 000 Jews left Egypt.
So "children of Israel (Jacob)" =/= descendants of Jacob? Remember that "Israel" was Yahweh's name for Jacob.
Quote:Genesis 32:28 And he (Yahweh) said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel
By the way, why do you call God Yahweh while it's so much easier to say that three letter word?
