Any "additional insights" on the below excerpt about _Machir and the Exodus_
would be appreciated (the url for the article follows the excerpt)
Regards, Walter
Walter Reinhold Warttig Mattfeld y de la Torre, M.A. Ed.
mattfeld12 AT charter.net
"The biblical chronology itself is problematic. The pentateuchal texts do
not agree with one another as to how long the sojourn in Egypt lasted.
Various biblically preserved traditions mention four generations (Genesis
15:16), 400 years (Genesis 15:13) and 430 years (Exodus 12:40-41). The
first-century C.E. Jewish historian Flavius Josephus records a tradition of
215 years,* and an ancient rabbinic source gives 210 years.* ...
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