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The Exodus is a key story of people who believe it is possible or probable that the God of Abraham and Sarah exists. The name "exodus" is from Greek ἔξοδος exodos, "going out". Some put it in the category of an “origin myth.” According to some thinkers, origin myths tell the story of a society's origins, and, in doing so, provide the ideological foundations for the culture and its institutions."}} Origin “myths” may be based on true stories. Some of the historical backup may have been lost over time. While some people refer this recording of events as a myth, in mathematics, if the answer is not zero, the answer is "it's possible!"  Artifacts in the Red Sea crossing have been found to corroborate the Exodus story]. The people who live in the area of the Red Sea Crossing, call the Mountain at Midian, Moses' Mountain. [https://RonWyatt.com RonWyatt.com website has a picture Ron Wyatt took of an Egyptian-style cow drawing he found on a rock below the mountain with the darkened top, The account of the possibly true yet hard-to- believe 40-year journey of 600,000 men plus other children (In the previous link, read the direct Hebrew translation from right to left.) is relayed in the books Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. It tells of the enslavement that befell the children of Israel in Egypt, their liberation through the hand of Yahweh and the revelations at Mt. Sinai, and their wanderings in the wilderness up to borders of Canaan, the land their God has given them. Its message is that Israel was delivered from slavery by Yahweh and therefore belongs to him through the Mosaic covenant, the terms of which are that Yahweh will protect his chosen people for all time, so long as they will keep his laws and worship only him. The narrative and its laws remain central to Judaism, recounted daily in Jewish prayers and celebrated in festivals such as Passover and Sukkot. It can be noted that the existence of these festivals are a form of corroboration of the Exodus story. The Exodus story has served as an inspiration and model for non-Jewish groups from early Protestants fleeing persecution in Europe to African-Americans striving for freedom and civil rights.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in clay jars in the caves by the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1956 (see link). Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls were from 800 BCE and some were from 11 CE. Multiple copies of several biblical texts were found. These. along with listeners of Yahweh throughout the ages help to corroborate the accuracy of the stories. The book of 1 Samuel (In the previous link, read the direct Hebrew translation from right to left) speaks of the Tabernacle, the Ark of the Covenant and the setting of the town of

Shiloh is the location of where the 12 Tribes of Israel, from the 12 sons of Is-ra-el settled after the Exodus story. There are also archaeological findings in this area, although it is likely that the ark's gold has long ago been melted.

The Exodus Journey is a key story of people who believe it is possible or probable that the God of Abraham and Sarah exists. While some people refer to this story-- or recording of events-- as a myth, in revived mathematics, if the answer is not zero, the answer is "it's possible!" Since Extra Sensory Perception has been proven in humans, and we see evidence of it in the bible with Ezekiel and 'Yahweh" looking through the Temple walls to watch the priests left behind during the Babylonian Captivity. Thus, it is possible the Exodus Journey has maintained its accuracy because through the ages because of the help of special listeners of "Yahweh," Spokespersons/Prophets of "Yahweh," and other Assistants of "Yahweh." Artifacts in the Red Sea crossing have been found to corroborate the Exodus story. The people who live in the area of the Red Sea Crossing, call the Mountain at Midian, "Moses' Mountain." RonWyatt.com website has a picture Ron Wyatt took of an Egyptian-style cow drawing he found on a rock below the mountain with the darkened top, The account of the possibly true yet hard-to- believe 40-year journey of 600,000 men plus other children (In the previous link, read the direct Hebrew translation from right to left.) is relayed in the books Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. It tells of the enslavement that befell the children of Israel in Egypt, their liberation through the hand of Yahweh and the revelations at Mt. Sinai, and their wanderings in the wilderness up to borders of Canaan, the land their God has given them. Its message is that Israel was delivered from slavery by Yahweh and therefore belongs to him through the Mosaic covenant, the terms of which are that Yahweh will protect his chosen people for all time, so long as they will keep his laws and worship only him. The narrative and its laws remain central to Judaism, recounted daily in Jewish prayers and celebrated in festivals such as Passover and Sukkot. It can be noted that the existence of these festivals are a form of corroboration of the Exodus story. The Exodus story has served as an inspiration and model for non-Jewish groups from early Protestants fleeing persecution in Europe to African-Americans striving for freedom and civil rights.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in clay jars in the caves by the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1956 (see link). Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls were from 800 BCE and some were from 11 CE. Multiple copies of several biblical texts were found. These. along with listeners of Yahweh throughout the ages help to corroborate the accuracy of the stories. The book of 1 Samuel (In the previous link, read the direct Hebrew translation from right to left) speaks of the Tabernacle, the Ark of the Covenant and the setting of the town of

Shiloh is the location of where the 12 Tribes of Israel, from the 12 sons of Is-ra-el settled after the Exodus story. There are also archaeological findings in this area, although it is likely that the ark's gold has long ago been melted.

Narrative
The story of the Exodus is told in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, the last four of the five books of the Torah (also called the Pentateuch). It begins with the Israelites in slavery. Their prophet Moses leads them out of Egypt and through the wilderness to Mount Sinai, where Yahweh reveals himself to his people and establishes the Mosaic covenant: they are to keep his torah (i.e. law, instruction), and in return he will give them the land of Canaan. The Israelites accept the covenant and receive their laws, and, with Yahweh now present in their midst, journey on from Sinai, towards the promised land, but when told that the land is filled with giants they refuse to go on, and Yahweh condemns them to remain in the desert until the generation that left Egypt passes away. After thirty-eight years at the oasis of Kadesh Barnea the next generation travel on to the borders of Canaan, where Moses addresses them for the final time, reviewing their travels and giving them further laws. The exodus ends with the death of Moses on Mount Nebo and his burial by Yahweh, while the Israelites prepare for the conquest of the land.

Covenant and law
The climax of the exodus is the covenant (binding legal agreement) between God and Israel mediated by Moses at Sinai: Yahweh will protect Israel as his chosen people for all time, and Israel will keep Yahweh's laws and worship only him. The covenant is described in stages: at Exodus 24:3-8 the Israelites agree to abide by the "book of the covenant" that Moses has just read to them; shortly afterwards God writes the "words of the covenant" - the Ten Commandments - on stone tablets; and finally, as the people gather in Moab to cross into Canaan, the land God has promised them, Moses makes a new covenant between Yahweh and Israel "beside the covenant he made with them at Horeb" (Deuteronomy 29:1). The laws are set out in a number of codes:
 * Ethical Decalogue (i.e., the Ten Commandments), Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5;
 * The Book of the Covenant, Exodus 20:22-23:3;
 * Ritual Decalogue, Exodus 34;
 * The ritual laws of Leviticus 1-6 and Numbers 1-10;
 * The Holiness Code, Leviticus 17-26;
 * Deuteronomic Code, Deuteronomy 12-26.

Composition


Scholars are broadly agreed that the publication of the Torah took place in the mid-Persian period (the 5th century BCE), echoing a traditional Jewish view which gives Ezra, the leader of the Jewish community on its return from Babylon, a pivotal role in its promulgation. The tradition behind it stretches back some two hundred years before then, to a point in the late 7th century BCE when various oral and written elements were drawn together into works which were the fore-runners of the Torah we know today. The first trace appears in the northern prophets Amos (possibly) and Hosea (certainly), both active in the 8th century BCE in the northern Israel, but their southern contemporaries Isaiah and Micah show no knowledge of an exodus. The story may, therefore, have originated a few centuries earlier, perhaps the 9th or 10th, and there are signs that it took different forms in Israel, in the Transjordan region, and in the southern Kingdom of Judah before being unified in the Persian era.

Many theories have been advanced to explain the composition of the Torah, but two have been especially influential. The first of these, Persian Imperial authorisation, advanced by Peter Frei in 1985, holds that the Persian authorities required the Jews of Jerusalem to present a single body of law as the price of local autonomy. Frei's theory was demolished at an interdisciplinary symposium held in 2000, but the relationship between the Persian authorities and Jerusalem remains a crucial question. The second theory, associated with Joel P. Weinberg and called the "Citizen-Temple Community", proposes that the Exodus story was composed to serve the needs of a post-exilic Jewish community organised around the Temple, which acted in effect as a bank for those who belonged to it. The Torah (the Exodus story) served as an "identity card" defining who belonged to this community (i.e., to Israel), thus reinforcing Israel's unity through its new institutions.

Cultural significance
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The Exodus Journey is an important story demonstrating the help of the God of Abraham and Sarah, "YHWH" which is often pronounced "Yahweh". The term "exodus" is from Greek ἔξοδος exodos, "going out". This story contains hard-to-believe events, but there is some evidence they nonetheless may be true. The Jewish/Hibiru/Hebrew Passover, Sukkot and the Sabbath traditions mark important events in this journey and are possibly evidence these events did happen. Ecopeacevision (talk) 16:30, 3 July 2018 (UTC)Ecopeacevision

Key religious texts of the Jews, Christians and Catholics all contain the books that encompass this story: the book of Exodus, the book of Leviticus, the book of Deuteronomy, and the book of Numbers. The Exodus Journey occured when the children of the father named Israel cried out to "Yahweh" from freedom from being mistreated and from being ordered to kill their oldest male children for years due to a new Egyptian pharaoh who had forgotten about their honored relative, Joseph. The other reason the new Egyptian pharaoh began treating them like slaves and killing their group was because after 430 years in the area they had grown in number to "600,000 men aside from children." (Read the direct Hebrew to English from right to left. The Hibiru's "Hebrews" counted the men, so the others included women and children, so it is estimated that about 2 million may have begun The Exodus Journey, plus along with many livestock animals.)Ecopeacevision (talk) 16:30, 3 July 2018 (UTC)Ecopeacevision

After being freed via Moses with the help of Yahweh, they crossed the Red Sea. (It is possibly shallower in a middle section: see, at 5:42-55 minutes into this video.)Ecopeacevision (talk) 16:30, 3 July 2018 (UTC)Ecopeacevision

Moses presented the 10 Commandments (twice because of an event that greatly angered him and "Yahweh" which caused Moses to break them the first time.) This occurred at Mt. Sinai. "Sin-ayh!?" Ecopeacevision (talk) 16:30, 3 July 2018 (UTC)Ecopeacevision

Moses, with the help of his brother Aaron, "Yahweh" and special assistants of "Yahweh" see verse 2, led the "children of Israel" (which included others who were not blood relatives) through the desert for 40 years. The adults who were most ingrained with the Egyptian culture and gods all died before crossing over the Jordan River to the west, "The Promised Land."Ecopeacevision (talk) 16:30, 3 July 2018 (UTC)Ecopeacevision

The narrative and its laws remain central to Judaism, recounted daily in Jewish prayers and celebrated in festivals such as Passover, as well as serving as an inspiration and model for non-Jewish groups from early Protestants fleeing persecution in Europe to African-Americans striving for freedom and civil rights.

Narrative
The story of the Exodus Journey is told in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, the last four of the five books of the Torah (also called the Pentateuch). It begins with the Israelites in slavery. Their prophet Moses leads them out of Egypt and through the wilderness to Mount Sinai, where Yahweh reveals himself to his people and establishes the Mosaic covenant: they are to keep his torah (i.e. law, instruction), and in return he will give them the land of Canaan. The Israelites accept the covenant and receive their laws, and, with Yahweh now present in their midst, journey on from Sinai, towards the promised land, but when told that the land is filled with giants they refuse to go on, and Yahweh condemns them to remain in the desert until the generation that left Egypt passes away. After thirty-eight years at the oasis of Kadesh Barnea the next generation travel on to the borders of Canaan, where Moses addresses them for the final time, reviewing their travels and giving them further laws. The exodus ends with the death of Moses on Mount Nebo and his burial by Yahweh, while the Israelites prepare for the conquest of the land.

Covenant and law
The 10 Commandments in the Exodus Journey is a covenant (a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement) between God and the children of Israel relayed from Yahweh by Moses at the bottom of Mt. Sinai: Yahweh will protect Israel as his chosen people for all time, and Israel will keep Yahweh's laws and worship only him. The covenant is described in stages: at Exodus 24:3-8 the Israelites agree to abide by the "book of the covenant" that Moses has just read to them; shortly afterwards God writes the "words of the covenant" - the Ten Commandments - on stone tablets; and finally, as the people gather in Moab to cross into Canaan, the land God has promised them, Moses makes a new covenant between Yahweh and Israel "beside the covenant he made with them at Horeb" (Deuteronomy 29:1). The laws are set out in a number of codes:
 * Ethical Decalogue (i.e., the Ten Commandments), Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5;
 * The Book of the Covenant, Exodus 20:22-23:3;
 * Ritual Decalogue, Exodus 34;
 * The ritual laws of Leviticus 1-6 and Numbers 1-10;
 * The Holiness Code, Leviticus 17-26;
 * Deuteronomic Code, Deuteronomy 12-26.

Composition


Scholars are broadly agreed that the publication of the Torah took place in the mid-Persian period (the 5th century BCE), echoing a traditional Jewish view which gives Ezra, the leader of the Jewish community on its return from Babylon, a pivotal role in its promulgation. The tradition behind it stretches back some two hundred years before then, to a point in the late 7th century BCE when various oral and written elements were drawn together into works which were the fore-runners of the Torah we know today. The first trace appears in the northern prophets Amos (possibly) and Hosea (certainly), both active in the 8th century BCE in the northern Israel, but their southern contemporaries Isaiah and Micah show no knowledge of an exodus. The story may, therefore, have originated a few centuries earlier, perhaps the 9th or 10th, and there are signs that it took different forms in Israel, in the Transjordan region, and in the southern Kingdom of Judah before being unified in the Persian era.

Many theories have been advanced to explain the composition of the Torah, but two have been especially influential. The first of these, Persian Imperial authorisation, advanced by Peter Frei in 1985, holds that the Persian authorities required the Jews of Jerusalem to present a single body of law as the price of local autonomy. Frei's theory was demolished at an interdisciplinary symposium held in 2000, but the relationship between the Persian authorities and Jerusalem remains a crucial question. The second theory, associated with Joel P. Weinberg and called the "Citizen-Temple Community", proposes that the Exodus story was composed to serve the needs of a post-exilic Jewish community organised around the Temple, which acted in effect as a bank for those who belonged to it. The Torah (the Exodus story) served as an "identity card" defining who belonged to this community (i.e., to Israel), thus reinforcing Israel's unity through its new institutions.

Cultural significance
The Exodus Journey is at the center of Jewish identity. It is remembered daily in Jewish prayers and celebrated each year at the feasts of Pesach (Passover) and Shavuot, the two being known respectively as "the time of our freedom" and "the time our Torah was given". The two are closely linked, with Pesach announcing that the freedom it introduces is only fully realised with the giving of the law (the Torah). A third Jewish festival, Sukkot, the Festival of Booths, commemorates how the Israelites lived in booths following the exodus from their previous homes in Egypt. The Exodus Journey roots Jewish religion in history, in contrast to pagan religions which are oriented towards nature. Some hypothesize that the festivals now associated with the Exodus Journey (Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and Sukkot) began as agricultural and seasonal feasts but became completely subsumed into the central exodus myth of Israel's deliverance from oppression at the hands of God/"Yahweh". The idea that the relationship between "Yahweh" and Israel is defined by the covenant ("berit") made at Sinai is central to Jewish identity, together with the laws given to Israel and the thirteen attributes of "Yahweh" revealed there. The fringes worn at the corners of traditional Jewish prayer shawls are a physical reminder of the obligation to observe the laws given at the climax of the Exodus Journey: "Look at it and recall all the commandments of the Lord" (Numbers).

The Exodus Journey has also resonated through non-Jewish culture. Some influences have been trivial but curiously significant - medieval Irish and Scottish legendary history, for example, derived the name of Scotland from Scota, supposedly a daughter of the pharaoh of the Exodus who later emigrated to the British isles. Others have been more significant: the hostility of the exodus tradition to the State (specifically to Egypt and the pharaoh) played a role in the Puritan Revolution in 17th century England, many early American settlers interpreted their flight from religious persecution in Europe to a new life overseas as a type of exodus. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin recommended that the Great Seal of the United States show Moses leading the Israelites across the Red Sea, and African Americans suffering under slavery and racial oppression interpreted their situation in terms of the exodus, making it a catalyst for social change.

Sources and parallels
While the exodus story is no older than the Babylonian exile, there are indications that some historical memories underlie it: the name of Moses is Egyptian, for example, and many scholars have found it improbable that a humiliating tradition of slavery would simply be invented. Egyptologist Jan Assmann suggests that it has no single origin, but rather combines numerous historical experiences into "a coherent story that is fictional as to its composition but historical as to some of its components" (Assmann, 2014). Thus the memory of Egyptian oppression may be based on the harsh treatment of Canaanites inside Canaan in the 2nd millennium, when the region was ruled by Egypt: these memories could later have been transferred to Egypt itself, and a new exodus story created. A historical Moses associated with a small group may have been later generalised into the savior of Israel, while the history of the Hyksos, who were Canaanite rulers of the Egyptian Delta in the 16th century BCE, may have formed the basis of the descent into Egypt and the Exodus.

Genre
The meaning a reader takes away from a text depends on his or her understanding of the literary "type" to which it belongs: as one scholar puts it in his discussion of the Genesis creation myth, "it makes an enormous difference whether the first chapters of Genesis are read as scientific cosmology, creation myth, or historical saga" (Wood, 1990). There is an almost universal consensus among scholars that the exodus story is best understood as myth. More specifically, its can be understood as a "charter" (or foundation) myth, a myth told to explain a society's origins and to provide the ideological foundation for its culture and institutions.

Historicity
The consensus of modern scholars is that the Bible does not give an accurate account of the origins of Israel. There is no indication that the Israelites ever lived in Ancient Egypt, and the Sinai Peninsula shows almost no sign of any occupation for the entire 2nd millennium BCE (even Kadesh-Barnea, where the Israelites are said to have spent 38 years, was uninhabited prior to the establishment of the Israelite monarchy). In contrast to the absence of evidence for the Egyptian captivity and wilderness wanderings, there are ample signs of Israel's evolution within Canaan from native Canaanite roots. While a few scholars discuss the historicity, or at least plausibility, of the exodus story, the majority of archaeologists have abandoned it, in the phrase used by archaeologist William Dever, as "a fruitless pursuit".

The biblical Exodus narrative contains some details which are authentically Egyptian, but such details are scant, and the story frequently does not reflect Egypt of the Late Bronze Age or even Egypt at all (it is unlikely, for example, that a mother would place a baby in the reeds of the Nile, where it would be in danger from crocodiles). Such elements of the narrative as can be fitted into the 2nd millennium could equally belong to the 1st, consistent with a 1st millennium BCE writer trying to set an old story in Egypt. (The name of Moses, for example, belongs to 1st millennium Egyptian, and would have been Mase in the 2nd). As a result, while a few scholars continue to discuss the historicity, or at least plausibility, of an exodus as described in the Bible, most histories of Israel do not include the Egyptian captivity, the Exodus, or the wilderness wanderings in their discussion of Israel's origins.

A century of research by archaeologists and Egyptologists has found no evidence which can be directly related to the Exodus captivity and the escape and travels through the wilderness. Archaeologists generally agree that the Israelites had Canaanite origins: the culture of the earliest Israelite settlements is Canaanite, their cult-objects are those of the Canaanite god El, the pottery remains are in the Canaanite tradition, and the alphabet used is early Canaanite. Almost the sole marker distinguishing the "Israelite" villages from Canaanite sites is an absence of pig bones, although whether even this is an ethnic marker or is due to other factors remains a matter of dispute.

According to Exodus 12:37–38, the Israelites numbered "about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children", plus many non-Israelites and livestock. Numbers 1:46 gives a more precise total of 603,550 men aged 20 and up. It is difficult to reconcile the idea of 600,000 Israelite fighting men with the information that the Israelites were afraid of the Philistines and Egyptians. The 600,000, plus wives, children, the elderly, and the "mixed multitude" of non-Israelites would have numbered some 2 million people. Marching ten abreast, and without accounting for livestock, they would have formed a column 240 km long. The entire Egyptian population in 1250 BCE is estimated to have been around 3 to 3.5 million, and no evidence has been found that Egypt ever suffered the demographic and economic catastrophe such a loss of population would represent, nor that the Sinai desert ever hosted (or could have hosted) these millions of people and their herds. Some have rationalised the numbers into smaller figures, for example reading the Hebrew as "600 families" rather than 600,000 men, but all such solutions have their own set of problems.

Details point to a 1st millennium date for the composition of the narrative: Ezion-Geber (one of the Stations of the Exodus), for example, dates to a period between the 8th and 6th centuries BCE with possible further occupation into the 4th century BCE, and those place-names on the Exodus route which have been identified – Goshen, Pithom, Succoth, Ramesses and Kadesh Barnea – point to the geography of the 1st millennium rather than the 2nd. Similarly, Pharaoh's fear that the Israelites might ally themselves with foreign invaders seems unlikely in the context of the late 2nd millennium, when Canaan was part of an Egyptian empire and Egypt faced no enemies in that direction, but does make sense in a 1st millennium context, when Egypt was considerably weaker and faced invasion first from the Achaemenid Empire and later from the Seleucid Empire. The mention of the dromedary in Exodus 9:3 also suggests a later date – the widespread domestication of the camel as a herd animal is thought not to have taken place before the late 2nd millennium, after the Israelites had already emerged in Canaan, and they did not become widespread in Egypt until c. 200–100 BCE.

The chronology of the exodus narrative is symbolic: for example, its culminating event, the erection of the Tabernacle as Yahweh's dwelling-place among his people, occurs in the year 2666 Anno Mundi (Year of the World, meaning 2666 years after God creates the world), and two-thirds of the way through a four thousand year era which culminates in or around the re-dedication of the Second Temple in 164 BCE. As a result, attempts to date the event to a specific century in known history have been inconclusive. places it 480 years before the construction of Solomon's Temple, implying an Exodus at c. 1450 BCE, but the number is rhetorical rather than historical, representing a symbolic twelve generations of forty years each. In any case, Canaan at this time was part of the Egyptian empire, so that the Israelites would in effect be escaping from Egypt to Egypt, and its cities do not show destruction layers consistent with the Bible's account of the occupation of the land (Jericho was "small and poor, almost insignificant, and unfortified (and) [t]here was also no sign of a destruction" (Finkelstein and Silberman, 2002). William F. Albright, the leading biblical archaeologist of the mid-20th century, proposed a date of around 1250–1200 BCE, but his so-called "Israelite" markers (four-roomed houses, collar-rimmed jars, etc,) are continuations of Canaanite culture. The lack of evidence has led scholars to conclude that the Exodus story does not represent a specific historical moment.

The Torah lists the places where the Israelites rested. A few of the names at the start of the itinerary, including Ra'amses, Pithom and Succoth, are reasonably well identified with archaeological sites on the eastern edge of the Nile Delta, as is Kadesh-Barnea, where the Israelites spend 38 years after turning back from Canaan; other than these, very little is certain. The crossing of the Red Sea has been variously placed at the Pelusic branch of the Nile, anywhere along the network of Bitter Lakes and smaller canals that formed a barrier toward eastward escape, the Gulf of Suez (south-southeast of Succoth), and the Gulf of Aqaba (south of Ezion-Geber), or even on a lagoon on the Mediterranean coast. The Biblical Mount Sinai is identified in Christian tradition with Jebel Musa in the south of the Sinai Peninsula, but this association dates only from the 3rd century CE, and no evidence of the Exodus has been found there.