Hebrew Exodus Essay

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I believe that the Hebrew Exodus happened the way the Bible told it. There is archeological evidence and especially textual evidence. The people and archeologist who say there was no Exodus weren’t basing their claims on evidence, but the fact that they didn’t find much. Finding and digging up artifacts from that time period is a very hard task. So just because they haven’t found any doesn’t mean it’s not out there.

Some people say that for the two million Hebrews to have this march from Egypt their would have to be evidence left behind. The first biblical mention of the Exodus, the Song of Miriam, which is the oldest text in the bible, never mentions how many people were involved. All it states is that there was a group, referred to
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This is no coincidence there are many other facts to help support this. The Red Sea is where Moses lead his people after they were set free. They were making their journey back to their home lands and came to this part of the sea. The Egyptian army was chasing them though and they had finally caught them. The Israelites had no where to go until Moses stuck his staff into the ground. After he did that God split the Red Sea and the Israelites could pass. The Egyptian army tried to follow but when the went in the water came rushing back and drowned them all. This means that all their chariots, men, and horses would be scattered across the Red Sea. Recently a group of people found these things in the Red Sea. They found chariot wheels and full chariots, And they were all across. So this Means it was a large group of Egyptians, which would be the ones chasing after Moses and the Israelites. They also found human bodies which could have just been there from another event, But they might have been the bodies of the Egyptian soldiers. There was horses found to, why would there be a horse’s in the ocean? The chariots the Egyptian soldiers rode in had to be pulled by something. That something was a horse. Usually two per chariot and there were more than two horse’s found. There would be no other reason that horse remains would be found in the

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