Israelite Multiplication: A Population of Millions? 

I think it is a REALLY good idea you are getting these videos out on RU-vid in short segments.

Your visual representation of crowds of millions was a brilliant addition.

After the Israelites filled Egypt, Pharaoh went on a string of conquests and brought back 100,000 slaves to Egypt. Why so many? This needs to be taken into account when estimating how many Israelites there were.

Do any of these calculations of the number of ''Israelites'' who left Egypt account for the ''mixed multitude'' who followed those Israelites?

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Why do you forget they left with a mixed multitude of people! As well as how can you say how many children were born per male?

It seems unrealistic to me that Pharaoh would send a tiny little force of 600 chariots to try to stop millions of people.

Point of correction... The 135 warriors Abraham gathered from his servants to rescue Lot, these would have increased for 3 generations to the time of Joseph, so their numbers would be say, 135 8 family members supported or being supported by those soldiers x 4 x 4 x 4 children on average for the 3 generations. which would give the servant population to be roughly 70,000. Now multiply that by 210 years worth of generational increase...

The Levites went from 22,000 in the first year of the Exodus to 23,000 in the last year. An increase of 1,000 or 0.45% in 39 years. Or compounded of 1.00114% per year. At that rate in 215 years their number would increase 27.7%.

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I like how this research includes the fact that people especially the Ancient Hebrews lived alot longer then we do now. Accounting all these factors it's no wonder how the ancient Hebrews multipled into such great numbers in so little time and endured for so long. This reminds me of The God Culture's Biblical Research alot. The book of Jubilees would help alot of things about family lines as well. As for the upcoming Canaanite wars they would have I would imagine they would long drawn conflicts. Especially with those wicked nephilim giants around in substantial numbers to avail them individually. But with Yahuah on their side victory for their entitled land that Canaan stole so long ago in Noah's divisions of the Earth amongst his sons and grandsons would be theirs.

They could have around 18 or 17 children on avarage.

The 400 years affliction of the seed of Abraham started when the Egyptian Ishmael (son of Egyptian mother Hagar) taunted Isaac. And although the Bible did not emphasize it, the Egyptians (after knowing how Sarah and Abraham sent away Hagar and Ishmael) continued this taunting from time to time even while Joseph was vizier of Egypt. This taunting culminated in slavery by the Egyptians when Joseph died.

I will have to go back and refresh my knowledge. My understanding is that during the famine, Iseral moved into Egypt and lived there for 30 years until Josheph past away, then were inslaved the 400 years, which would equal total of 430 years, Iseral had a presence in Egypt. There could have been millions by then, only starting off with a group of 70 people. Also remember that when the Hebrews left Egypt, it was a mix multitude, where some of the people that left were Egyptians as well.

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It also says "a mixed multitude" went out. That's a whole lot more people that weren't hebrew.

4:42 Mr Beitzel deliberately reads from Exodus 1:10 leaving out the conspicuous verse mentioning the great number of Israel: "9 And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us. ..."" and instead tries to shift the focus to the geographic origin of the family and the potential threat from the North.

According to the chronology of biblical events that God's word, the Bible, reveals Abraham lived from 2111 until 1936 BC, {2036 BC Confirmation in Galater 3,17 (from Abraham's coming to Kanaan at the age of 75, until the Exodus from Egypt, *the 430 years under foreign rule are counted: 2036 - 1606 BC}* {Ismael together with Hagar expulsed [Genesis 21,9-21] 2006 BC - with Ismael's expulsion and Isaac as "Seed" und "Heir" accepted; from this point 400 years, in which the "Seed" of Abraham's is a stranger. Isaac and his descendents live in "strange land" and his seed is "in bondage and entreated evil" [Gen.15,13 und Acts 7,6]. *400 years: 2006 - 1606 BC,* from Isaac as only heir, to the Exodus from Egypt.} Jacob and his family arrives in Egypt 1821 BC (-1606=215 years in Egypt) *{But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again:* for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. Genesis 15, 16; And these are the names of the sons of *Levi* according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: ... and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years. ... And the sons of Kohath; *Amram,* and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years. ... And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him *Aaron* and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years. ... And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Nahshon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, *Eleazar, and Ithamar.* Exodus 6, 16‭.18‭.20‭.23} the Exodus 1606 BC, [The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it {1606 BC}. And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness {1606-1566 BC}. - conquest of Jericho 1566 BC {"From 1952-58, Dame Kathleen Kenyon excavated at Jericho and dated the destruction of City IV to the end of the Middle Bronze Age, ca 1550 BC (Kathleen Kenyon, Digging Up Jericho (London: Ernest Benn, 1957), 262.), meaning that there was no city of Jericho for Joshua to conquer at the time the Bible describes the conquest of Canaan."} - And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan {6 years: 1566-1560 BC}, he divided their land to them by lot {14 years: 1560-1546 BC}. And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet {336 years of peace +114 years of oppression = 450 years: 1546-1096 BC}. And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years {1096-1056 BC}. And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will {40 years: 1056-1016 BC}. Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus: Acts 13, 17‭-‬23] the 4th year of Salomon 1012 BC {1016-1012 BC; 1 Kings 6, 1: 1606-1012 = (594-114 years of oppression=) 480 years}, divided Empire (Israel / Juda) 976 BC, 390 years later: 586 BC destruction of Jerusalem. (according the whole context of God's word, the Bible, from Chronologie biblischer Ereignisse (Kurt Wolfgang Becker): leben - ist - mehr . at /chronologie/)

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The 600 thousands armed men dont have to be all from Jacobs family

The Amish population in the States is doubling every 15 years. If the children of Jacob increased at the same rate, in 215 years there would be about 600,000 men. That does not include the servants in their household or the "mixed multitude" that left Egypt with them. A population the size recorded in the Bible is very realistic. You can trust the veracity of Scripture.

Yahweh said that the generation of adults over 20 would never live to enter Canaan. So that means there should be, conservatively speaking, a cemetery or cemeteries containing the bones of at least 600,000 people in the Sinai. Yet in a desert where 5,000 year old artifacts are sometimes found lying on the surface, there are no cemeteries and no bones anywhere to be found.

T 400 years means 10 generations

You cannot propose 9 generations in Egypt if the Bible emphasises only 4. And an average age of 23 yrs for the fathers' first son's birth is unrealistic (remember this age reduces even more because half of all first births are daughters). The demography of the patriarchs gives an average of between 3 and 4 sons each and quite late ages for first fatherhood to a son. Thus an average of 8 children per father for 4 generations, even assuming all generations survived to the exodus (they didn't) give a population

The "common argument" actually isn't that the Israelites didn't have enough time to reach a population of 3 million. Rather, it's that a population of 3 million living in a desert for 40 years would have left evidence, and there's nothing there.

Jacob was one of the hyksos kings of egypt one of the shepherd kings

As late as the 10th and 11th Century BC archaeologists have determined that the number of people living in Israel/Canaan was probably under 100,000 people. So the idea that more than a million people left Egypt is nonsense. There has never been a single trace of evidence of the Exodus found anywhere in Egypt, Israel, or any place between.

The book of Jasher says the Israelites were in Egypt for 210 years which matches up quite nicely with your 215 year scenario. Further, the Israelites that went into Egypt numbered about 70 as I recall, HOWEVER... Abraham was able to round up a number of of warrior-aged servants numbering 135 as I recall. These servants had families and their numbers would have probably been around 1.000. These all would have been considered Israelites by the Egyptians. The number of those servants would have increased at normal population levels and by the time Israel went into Egypt with Joseph, that starting number of approximately a thousand would have grown over the 210 years to a vast number.

The millions number is based on a mistranslation. The actual number was close to thousands.

EXODUS 12:38 mix multitude leaving Egypt would be surely empty Harlems of exotic wives from far off lands. It would be the bottom of Egypt society id assume

The book of Jasher also says they were enslaved for only 5 years. yes it was brutal, but it wasn't hundreds of years.

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