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The Bible lists no figures to answer that question. But a thoughtful reading of the events

leading up to the exodus reveals that an effective "screening" process took place just

before it. The answer to the question becomes: "All that were left to follow did so."

In preparation for their departure, the children of Israel were instructed to slaughter

a lamb, roast it for a pre-departure meal, and clearly mark their doors with its blood ...

the identification that would deflect the "Mashcheet" on its macabre rounds of first-born

execution.

Now read those instructions once again, this time with the knowledge that the lamb

was a sacred deity of Egypt, and no Jew alive that day had ever known a day of his

life when he was not a slave to a cruel Egyptian master. Some of the Jews had the

foolish courage to follow the instructions and commit the ultimate insult toward their

masters, while for others, their life-long instincts were too strong, and they just couldn't

bring themselves to commit such an act of rebellion. Those without lamb's blood on

their doors were not passed over, and suffered the same fate as Egypt's families

during that night, and in the middle of the night, as the exodus took shape, those

who were left to follow Moses were the ones who had been able to go against their

deepest survival instincts and demonstrate their choice in a very public way.

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A:The Bible says that 600,000 fighting men were among the Israelites who left Egypt during the biblical Exodus. Donald Redford (Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times) extrapolates from Numbers 1:46 to give the total number of Israelites who were said to have fled Egypt as 2.5 million, compared to an estimated total population in Egypt of 3 to 4.5 million. There is no suggestion anywhere in the story of the Exodus that any of the Israelites chose to remain behind, so this says that 100 per cent of the Israelites left Egypt.

On the other hand, over 90 per cent of scholars are reported to believe that there was no Exodus from Egypt, as described in the Bible. The Israelite tribes really formed from among Canaanites who left the environs of the coastal cities and migrated internally to settle in the hitherto sparsely populated Canaanite hinterland. On this view, none of the Israelites came out of Egypt.

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The bible says there were 600,000people in the census.

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