What year were the Jews enslaved in Egypt?

Answer 1

Yes there are records of Jews being enslaved in Egypt, but back then they wee simply called israelites. The were enslaved a little after 1700, maybe 1780 BC. They became slaves because there was such a large amount of them in Egypt that the pharaoh at the time felt as if they could somehow overpower him and his people and ake over Egypt.

Answer 2

The Jews left Egypt around 1446 BCE and were enslaved for about 2 centuries before that.

Answer:

The traditional date of the Exodus was 1312 BCE. The enslavement was in the century leading up to that time.

Answer 3

The story of the Hebrews in Egypt is in the book of Exodus. The Hebrews probably were semi-nomadic herders of sheep and goats. Some Hebrews, possibly relatives of Abraham, wandered into Egypt and stayed. The story of Moses is from prehistorical times and was quite possibly written down after being told from generation to generation.

Archaeological evidence, and Egyptian tradition do not confirm the details of the Hebrews in Egypt, or their escape from a pharoah (Ramses II?) However, the tradition of passover and the lives of the Hebrews on the desert remains a centuries old belief by most Jews and Christians.

Answer

According to Modern Biblical Scholars, the Hebrews were never enslaved in Egypt, It never happen.

Answer 4

The slavery took hold in stages. However, tradition teaches that it did not start while Joseph or any of his brothers still lived. That puts its start at not before 3441 years ago (1429 BCE; 117 years before the Exodus).

Answer 5

According to the continuous tradition of the Israelites (Jews) themselves, they were in Egypt for a total of 210 years. Of this, the slavery itself lasted about 115 years. The traditional date of the Exodus was 1312 BCE. The enslavement was in the century leading up to that time.

Verses which mention 400 years (Genesis ch.15) and 430 years (Exodus ch.12) are calculated from events in Abraham's lifetime, not during the actual sojourn in Egypt (Rashi commentary, ibid).

Answer 6

According to our tradition, the enslavement began about 1420 BCE and lasted some 115 years.

Answer 7

The Torah doesn't give us any dates, but tradition holds that it was sometime between 1800 BCE and 1300 BCE.

Answer 8

The slavery began gradually, starting around 3440 years ago, and ended 3324 years ago.

Answer 9

They were called the Children of Israel.