in a new Passover..... Starting with the old passover the Book of Numbers 1:46 says 603,550 men and this not including women children, one has even a hard time imagining these numbers of people today getting together for a single purpose, let alone then. Just on a practical note, a column of this many people marching ten abreast,would have formed a line 150miles long, almost from Egypt to Canaan.
There are not any burial sites/cemeteries along the so-called Exodus route ever been found, apparently nobody died during the long march to Canaan, miraculous for those times. Meanwhile, there is not any archaeological evidence of such a mass migration or of a huge influx of people into Canaan. Plus abolutely no evidence of Egyptian words/art/culture or architecture in Canaan, which is a huge discrepancy, this just does not happen.
The mention of the use of camels in Exodus 9:3 also suggests a far later date of composition, for we know the widespread domestication of the camel as a herd animal did not take place before the late 2nd millennium, after the Israelites had already emerged in Canaan, this "old testament" was written by scribes probably around 3-5th century, all mostly fiction. |
