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Old 11-April-2008, 12:49 AM
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I'm a bit confused, A.DIM. You wrote:

Why did you speak of 'a couple million Hebrews in the Sinai for 40yrs'? I didn't know there was a figure for the number of Hebrews who supposedly fled Egypt with Moses, and a couple million seems far too high...

Exodus 12:37 speaks of some 600 thousand military aged men accompanied by many others. You will find in almost any discussion of the exodus estimates from 2 million upwards of 4 million.
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