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Plague parallels from Ipuwar papyrus

1.The Nile turned to blood: "The river is blood. If one drinks from it, one rejects (it) as human and thirsts for water."
Frogs: "Frogs were throughout the land. Even the palace was filled with frogs. When they struck the v…

How many people were involved in the Exodus?

How many people were involved in the Exodus?

According to Numbers 1:20-46 (NJPS):

They totaled as follows:
The descendants of Reuben, Israel’s first-born, the registration of the clans of their ancestral house, as listed by name, head by head, all males aged twenty years and ov…