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  • From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Machir and the Exodus ?
  • Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 20:02:20 -0500

Dear Karl,

You are making assumptions that the text doesn’t necessarily support.

For example, in verse 21, which land? Any reason why it couldn’t have been Egypt? When were Ephraim’s sons killed, after at least one of them had children and his children named for several generations? And while the text mentions the daughter building three towns, is there any reason to suggest that they were other than small settlements only for as long as Israel was in Egypt, hence were not mentioned in Egyptian records?

HH: The problem with this idea is that Lower and Upper Beth Horon were well known settlements in Israel, not Egypt.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard




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