![]() Wikipedia article Wikipedia Chabad,org /library/bible Religious Tolerance /judaism BBC - Religion: Judaism bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism Įncyclopædia Britannica, /topic/Judaism Websites and Resources: Bible and Biblical History: Bible Gateway and the New International Version (NIV) of The Bible King James Version of the Bible /ebooks Bible History Online īiblical Archaeology Society Internet Jewish History Sourcebook Complete Works of Josephus at Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) DeMille's “Ten Commandments” with Charleston Heston “Prince of Egypt”, a Dreamworks animation with the voice of Moses supplied by Val Kilmer and his friend Ramses by Ralph Fiennes. Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments, is believed to be a 7,497-foot purple granite peak long called Gebel in the southern Sinai.īook: “Moses: A Life” by Jonathan Kirsh. Proponents of the southern route theory say after skirting the Red Sea, the Israelites headed southeast to Great Bitter Lake and Little Bitter Lake, which are full of reeds and equated with the "Reed Sea." Mt. Of these, one route reaches southern Sinai while the other two pass through the center of the Sinai. The other three pass through a Sea of Reeds near the present-day Suez Canal. The Northern routes passes through a Sea of Reeds in the Mediterranean. There are four major routes between Goshen and Kadesh-barnes. Kadesh-barnes, where the Israelites stopped for 38 years before entering the Promised Land, is thought to be the oasis of Ayn al Qudayrat, near the Israeli city of Beersheba. Most scholars believe that if the Exodus indeed took place the Israelites left the Nile Delta and entered the Sinai where the Suez Canal is today, which completely bypasses the Red Sea. The journey began on the Nile Delta and ended on Mount Nebo in Jordan, a distance roughly equivalent to the distance between New York and Washington D.C.☼ Most of the geographic location described on the Books of Exodus through Deuteronomy are impossible to locate on a map. Both point to the miracles of manna and quails to back up their argument. Some scholars believe that Moses followed a northern route across the Sinai. The route between Goshen in the Nile Delta in Egypt and the Promised Land in Canaan (Israel) crossed the Sinai Peninsula. Other scholars say the Hebrew word “eleph” which translate to thousand, may in fact mean "family." Some 600 families, with about a total of 1,500 people, seems like a more reasonable number.☼ ![]() Some scholar believe the 600,000 figures was actually taken from a census in Israel centuries later. That is an awful lot of people to wandering around a desert with barely enough food to feed goats and Bedouins. but there was no record of huge masses of people escaping and crossing the Sinai.Īccording to the Bible, the Israelites numbered some 600,000 adult males and their families: perhaps two million people. There are accounts of Egyptian raids into Palestine that brought back captives in the 12th century B.C. ![]() The Israelites at first were reluctant to have Moses lead them. After the 10th plague and the observation of the first Passover, Moses and the Israelites embarked on their Exodus from the Land of Goshen in the Nile Delta in Egypt to the Promised Land.
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