Exodus Part Two: Population of the Exodus Group.

Huh?Ever hear of the Ark of the Covenant covered in gold? The showbread table covered in gold? The menorah of pure gold?The golden calf?Wasn't it in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre where the prospectors threw away their canteens so they could carry more gold? The children of Israel likely did the same.ABE: How many people would it take just to carry all that gold?Edited by Ringo, : Turned to face the topic.

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My point was that you were dead wrong about the children of Israel being poor. Makes you look like you've never even read the Bible. But lets get to the population.We have a fairly clear description of the tabernacle and its paraphernalia. If we assume that it's historically accurate, can we use that description to estimate how many people would be required to carry the tabernacle? If so, can we use that estimate to further estimate the size of the entire group?

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Maybe I would have gotten that point if you had actually mentioned the population. The problem we have with trying to estimate the population is that we have nothing to work with. It has been pointed out that there is not a shred of evidence that anybody escaped from Egypt to Canaan.If there was a vast cleanup/coverup, that just works against you. Archaeological evidence of campsites, etc. would at least give us a basis to start from. With no evidence that it happened, we can only look at whether or not it could have happened.So we're left with the questions in the OP:

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1. Is the 2-3 million a realistic number?
2. Does the Bible really claim this enormous population growth?

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