The generally accepted time in Egypt is given as 430 years in Exodus 12:40, but as Genesis 15:13 says 400 years and it is only three generations in Genesis 15:16. The biblical time spent by the Israelites in Egypt is unknowable.
However there is an answer, although, for many, an unexpected one. The majority of modern scholars say that the Israelites were really Canaanite people who peacefully left the coastal cities and adjacent regions, to settle in the hitherto sparsely populated hinterland. They say that there was no Exodus from Egypt as described in the Bible, and no conquest of Canaan. The stories of the sojourn in Egypt, the Exodus under Moses and the conquest of Canaan were legends that developed long after the Hebrew people had forgotten their real origins.
The Israelites were slaves in Egypt for 430 years.
Answer 2
According to tradition, they were in Egypt for 210 years, of which the last 115 years consisted of actual slavery.
According to tradition, they were in Egypt for 210 years, of which the last 115 years consisted of actual slavery.
Some have dated this period to be 430 years from the Abrahamic Covenant with God in circa 1876 BC. So that would date the Exodus to 1446 BC.
400 years
210 years.
Moses leading the Israelites from Egypt was approx 1500BC
The Israelites were slaves in Egypt for roughly 400 years .
The long journey during which Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt and back to Canaan is known as the Exodus.
They had no leader.
40 years of wandering in the desert.
From Egypt to Israel it took the Israelites 40 years. It took this long because G-d wanted everyone of the slave generation to have deceased.
According to tradition, The Israelites lived in Egypt for 210 years, of which they were in varying degrees of bondage for some 118 years.
He said that because the yeast would make rise but it would take too long so he told them not to so it wouldn't rise.
Approximately 200-300 days
A:Even those who believe in the historicity of the stories of Abraham and his descendants, who were the biblical ancestors of the twelve tribes of Israel, acknowledge that Egypt existed long before the time of Abraham. The ancient Egyptians were not even a Semitic people, so there was no close ethnic relationship between the Egyptians and the Israelites.
Egypt was called Egypt both before and after it became a Roman province. It had previous names far back in its long history, but Egypt was the name used for it in Roman times.
I believe it took 40 years for them to set foot in Caanan, but then three more years to control all of it