Fun Bible Facts

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The Jewish population in Egypt is well documented in the Holey Bible. It went from just 70 to over a million in just four generations!

Consider, there were four generations from Joseph to Moses.

Ex 6:16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari:
Ex 6:18 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel:
Ex 6:20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses:

So we go from Levi to Kohath to Amram to Moses. Four generations.

Population of the Jews in Egypt: 70.

Ex 1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

Population at the time of Exodus: 600 K males plus women and children.

Ex. 12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.

Now let's assume a 1:1 ration of males to females. This means 1.2 M adult population. So the adult Jewish-Egyptian population by generation, assuming a steady population growth with each generation, went like this:

70
1.8 K
47 K
1.2 M

This means that every Jewish-Egyptian couple would need to have had 52 children each over the course of those four generations. This figure only makes sense if every Jewish-Egyptian woman from 14-40 was constantly pregnant with twins!

Now THAT was miracle!