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The Book of Exodus says that Moses and the Israelites took their cattle and sheep. According to Exodus 13:19 they also took the bones of Joseph, to be buried in the Promised Land. Verse 12:35 says they "borrowed" silver, gold and valuable raiments from the Egyptians, who in spite of this did not understand that the Israelites were about to leave and never return.

The loss of such a large and productive workforce, along with the considerable wealth of the Egyptians would naturally find its way into the numerous Egyptian archives we have for the period, yet the records show that life continued as normal, with no suggestion of an economic upheaval, nor the indirect effects of the loss of an entire army that pursued the Israelites. This is just one reason that nearly all scholars say that there never was an Exodus from Egypt as described in The Bible, meaning that neither Moses nor the Israelites took anything out of Egypt.

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