Rule
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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster " On the whole, then, we get 144,000 Israelites traveling through the Sinai desert – again an immensely large figure for this region, raising all the difficulties mentioned above." I did not watch those youtube things as my speakers are out. Sure, I know that there is a huge number named in the old testament. (It has been twenty years since I read that.) But it ain't reliable. How did it start? With a small number of brothers - seven or twelve or something. And those stayed for how long in Egypt? Unknown, but let's estimate a couple of generations. What are they, rabbits? If they number one hundred thousand brick makers or half a million brickmakers they could have defeated the standing army of the farao (the palace and town guard), which presumably numbered a couple of hundred soldiers. It is likely that long after the exodus Salomon or whomever counted the then population of Palestine and got that huge number, but the actual number of people taking part in the exodus cannot have been more than a couple of hundred or perhaps one thousand. Do you have any idea how much that many people and their life stock in desert conditions drink? That much water for one hundred thousand to half a million alleged people cannot be supplied by cracking a rock; that requires a large river or lake.
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