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A:The Bible tells us that 600,000 fighting men left Egypt, equivialent to at least 2.5 million people including men, women and children. The Bible does not say what the Egyptians did after this loss of manpower out of what scholars say was a total population of only 3.5 million people.

We could look to the copious Egyptian records we have for this period for an answer, but there is no hint in official records or in commercial transactions that anything untoward had happened. There is nothing to suggest an entire army had been wiped out, and it seems that the deaths of every pharaoh during this period were by meansother than drowning in the Red Sea pursuit.

It is reported that over 90 per cent of scholars do not believe that there was an Exodus of Israelites from Egypt as described in the Bible. This story was written many centuries after the supposed event and there was no Exodus. The Egyptians did nothing because there was nothing for them to do.

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