There is absolutely no evidence that the Exodus ever happened.
Begin with the tax rolls and harvest records in Egypt during the time of the Exodus. There wasn't even the slightest dent in tax income after an entire slave population left - taking much stolen jewelry with them.
When people die in a desert and are buried in the hot sand, bodies quickly mummify. The bible says that there were 650,000 Jews plus their many wives plus all of their children plus all of the elders (men who were too old to fight plus their many wives - and let us not forget the widows). Now add the animal population that went with them, because we know that they continued their sacrifices, and Moses talked about not cooking a baby goat in its mother's milk. There were probably wagons to carry things in - such as the ark of the covenant. But in 40 years of wandering in a rather confined place, there are no huge piles of bones or cooking fires. Imagine how many bones there should be about the desert to feed a contingent that is estimated to be at about 2,000,000 after all children, wives, and elders were accounted for.
Also: If that many people were walking through the desert "ten abreast", as the bible says, then the line would have been 150 miles long. How many oasis were there along the route and how did people find enough water for themselves and their animals to survive. By the time the camels at the head of the line were done drinking, animals at the back of the line would be dying.
There is not one historian, archeologist, or Egyptologist who believes that there was an exodus. there is zero evidence for it. there is evidence of the beginnings of a Jewish tribe in the land of Canaan.
There were two cultures there. The remnants of the two cultures are identical except that no remains of pigs were found in the discovered fire pits of one of the tribes. Apparently, the Jews, in the first act of genocide in all of recorded history, eliminated their neighbors and assumed control of the land.
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