Exodus Part One: Hebrews/Israelites in Egypt

a more interesting question would be "what the heck where they doing in the desert all that time??" since there was a well know and every day used trade route going from Egypt to Israel. Seem very odd that they would have problems finding their way to Israel.

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Since there wasn't an Israel at that time they would indeed have trouble finding it.

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Brian.

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Of course youre right havent really thought about that uptil now but seeing that the land was founded by the hebrews is a funny statement.
But still there were trade routes heading that way. I guess more accuratly saying would be that the trade routes where to Phoenicia (city of Tyrus perhaps?) i dont have the source before me so im relying to my where bad memory..Still its interesting. Ive read some theories that Moses actually where a military leader and that they were in the desert routing out "enemies of the state" for the pharao. Seeing that the ten commandments existed with the egyptians (in a negative form)long before Moses ever got them on the mountain, im guessing Moses had more to do with Egypt and the pharao than the bible tells us.