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  • From: "Heard, Christopher" <Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu>
  • To: Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genealogy of David
  • Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:05:14 -0800

IIRC, the figure 215 comes from Josephus, who uses a similar calculation to the rabbis.

Chris

On Feb 28, 2005, at 9:02 AM, Karl Randolph wrote:

Yigal:

Isn't that also indicated by the LXX and the Samaritan Pentateuch (other than the rabbinic tradition)? Are there any other MSS that could indicate a 210 (or 215 years I heard from other sources) year sojourn of Israel in Egypt?

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>


By the way, the rabbis had the same problem, and calculated that there were
only 210 years from Jacob's descent to Egypt until the exodus. There
solution was the well-known midrash that God had originally intended that
the Israelites spend 430 years in Egypt, but since they cried to him so
feverently He gave them "time off" and recalculated the 430 years from
Abraham's first visit in Egypt.

Yigal
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