Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

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