Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Exodus
Warning: Totally obscure and meaningless comments follow!
In Exodus 12:37 we are told that there were 600,000 men that left Egypt heading for the land of Canaan. This did not include women and children. If we make the conservative assumption that there were an equal number of women and children this would mean 1,200,000 people were walking out of Egypt and later crossed the Red Sea.
If my math is correct and you make a general assumption that one person would take up a foot of space then it would follow that if you lined all the people up in a straight line it would cover a little over 227 miles! So if they had ever got in a straight line from there is would have been a two day journey. Even if you traveled in bunches...how many miles would their camp encompass?
I think I have just pictured a little group of people wandering around when I visualized this in the past. This was a "herd" of people! No wonder Moses was hitting the rock!!
In Exodus 12:37 we are told that there were 600,000 men that left Egypt heading for the land of Canaan. This did not include women and children. If we make the conservative assumption that there were an equal number of women and children this would mean 1,200,000 people were walking out of Egypt and later crossed the Red Sea.
If my math is correct and you make a general assumption that one person would take up a foot of space then it would follow that if you lined all the people up in a straight line it would cover a little over 227 miles! So if they had ever got in a straight line from there is would have been a two day journey. Even if you traveled in bunches...how many miles would their camp encompass?
I think I have just pictured a little group of people wandering around when I visualized this in the past. This was a "herd" of people! No wonder Moses was hitting the rock!!
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Donna, your observations point to why, in modern times, many O.T. interpreters have treated such passages as nationalistic fish stories. For a lot of people today(more than are willing to say so?) this raises the question of whether we really must accept as historical reality everything the Bible seems to be asserting as what happened back then.
Most theological conservatives will say that as long as you accept the virginal conception of Christ, the Resurrection, etc., then you have bought in to supernaturalism, and that settles it. But does that response sidestep the possibility that, non-negotiables excluded, there are all kinds of legendary texts in the Bible?
Most theological conservatives will say that as long as you accept the virginal conception of Christ, the Resurrection, etc., then you have bought in to supernaturalism, and that settles it. But does that response sidestep the possibility that, non-negotiables excluded, there are all kinds of legendary texts in the Bible?
Spoken like a true banker. Just think of the mortgage potential, brokerage fees, deposits! Just following your aforementioned warning...meaningless info. Actually your calculations are pretty astounding. Mass of Humanity.
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