How many years were the Jews slaves in Egypt before being led to freedom by Moses?

Answer 1

430 years

According to Exodus 12:40-41, the Hebrews spent 430 years in Egypt.

210 years

However, a problem arises because biblical information about the year of the birth of Moses does not tally with the date of the Exodus, if he lived only 120 years. 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.

Not at all

Many archaeologists have pointed out that although there are extensive records of life in ancient Egypt, there is no archaeological evidence that the Israelites were ever held in Egypt. Over 90 per cent of scholars are reported as saying that the enslavement of the Israelites and the Exidus from Egypt never really happened.