Exodus 12:40-41 says the Hebrews spent 430 years in Egypt: "Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years ..." Of course, not all of this time is said to have been as slaves. However, the genealogy of Moses does not allow such a long time, since he had to be born sometime between 15 years and 270 years after the arrival in Egypt, lived 120 years and yet led the Israelites on the Exodus for some forty years.
Perhaps in recognition of this problem, a Jewish midrash of the common era attempted to rationalise by stating that Moses protested to God that he could not lead the Hebrews, because they had only been in Egypt for 210 years and had not yet faced the 400 years of oppression that God had foretold to Abraham. God responded that the time of oppression had to be dated from the birth of Isaac, and so 400 years had indeed gone by.
The great majority of biblical scholars now believe that the Israelites were never slaves in Egypt and that there was no Exodus as described in The Bible.
In The Bible, the Israelites wandered for forty years before they entered Canaan.In history, on the other hand, there was no Exodus from Egypt and no militiary conquest of Canaan as described in the Bible. The Israelites did not travel from Egypt to Canaan.
When the Jewish people came to Egypt, there was only 70 of them. But When the Jewish people left Egypt about 200 years later, there was about 60,000 of them. This was because at the time that the Israelites were slaves, mothers gave birth to about 6 children at a time!
In 2013 there are no slaves.
A:According to the Book of Exodus, the Israelites, who had previously been free settlers in Egypt, were enslaved because the pharaoh became alarmed at their growing number and the risk that the Israelites might one day seek to overthrow the Egyptian rule.On the other hand, Ze'ev Herzog (Ha'aretz Magazine, 29 October, 1999) says that what archaeologists have learned from their excavations in the Land of Israel is that the Israelites were never in Egypt, did not wander in the desert, did not conquer the land in a military campaign and did not pass it on to the twelve tribes of Israel. He says the many Egyptian documents that we have make no mention of the Israelites' presence in Egypt and are also silent about the events of the Exodus. If the Israelites were never in Egypt, then of course they were never slaves for the pharaoh.
According to the Bible (Exodus 12:40-41), the Israelites were in Egypt for 430 years. The biblical genealogy suggests that Moses was born sometime prior to 270 years after the arrival in Egypt.
the nickname slaves gave Harriet Tubman was mosses because she drew out so many slaves
Contrary to popular belief, there actually weren't many slaves in Egypt.
The number of Israelites that did not leave Egypt is not mentioned in the Old Testament. It is estimated about 2 million to 3 million did leave Egypt, including men, women and children.
After prosper Judaism was formed however, the pharaoh of Egypt didn't like how many Israelites were living in Egypt with fear of them rebelling and taking control and the Israelites were enslaved by Egypt. After asking the pharaoh to release his people and the pharaoh saying no bad fortune was given and later the Israelites were freed a man named Moses was responsible he then lead Israelites back to their land of Canaan taking many, many years in what is now known as the Exodus
Moses spent 40 years in Midian tending sheep before he received the call from God to lead the Israelites out of Egypt.
Slaves were a fact of life and not to be " liked" or " disliked" but just a part of life. Many slaves became slaves as part of war, so they were seen as one of the outcomes of being on the wrong side. As a royal son in Egypt Moses would not have thought about the slaves very much until God called on him to free the people of Israel.
I know there were 600 thousand men not including animals