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A:The Bible says that Moses was born after the Israelites became slaves and then lived to 120 years old, but did not begin the Exodus until just 40 years before his death. So, God must have willingly allowed the Israelites to suffer as slaves for more than 80 years and probably much longer. Nevertheless, the Bible also says that God cared about the Israelite slaves.

On the other hand, more than ninety per cent of scholars are said to believe that there never was an Exodus from Egypt as described in the Bible. The Israelite nation was never enslaved and therefore God had no need to care about the Israelites.

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