ManusJustus said:
luinil said:
Also I fail to how a group of people as large as the Israelites were could eat something provided to them by a guy who's only trick is slight of hand. You can't eat or drink slight of hand. You can eat manna and drink water. Both of which were supernaturally provided to them daily, in the desert I might add. You can't pick stuff off the desert floor every morning for 40 yearsand eat it and declare that it is great! You are either insane or eating sand... Though they did get tired of the heavenly bread after a while and grumbled again, at which time no amount of slight of hand can make birds land in your camp where you can catch them and eat them. It just doesn't happen. |
And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Yet one plague more will I bring upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence; when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether. Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.' And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.
Its was easy for Moses, a very popular leader and a member of the royal family, to provide for the Hebrews when he had a huge supply of gold to buy resources with. Thats not to mention that there were nomads living in the desert at this time, with wells, settlements, and not to mention a huge trade route from Egypt to Asia.
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You are not reading what they did with that gold are you? They melted it down and forced all of the people who rebelled against God to drink it. They probably had some left over, but to think that they could use the wells of other places "towns" to let over 40,000 people drink? I don't buy it for one second.
ManusJustus said:
The most important point we are all missing here is that if every first born child in Egypt, numbering hundreds of thouands of children, was killed, somebody other than the Hebrews would have bothered to mention it.
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Perhaps they buried it with the Pharoah. It would be a shame to the nation and hoped to be forgotten. After all the Pharoah died in the Red Sea too.
