How many years have the Israelis been in Egypt? Why can't it be introduced from Leigh to Moses for more than 400 years?

Israelis have lived in Egypt for 430 years. Why are there only three generations from Eli to Moses (Exodus 6: 16-20)? The genealogical forms recorded in the Five Classics (see Min. 26, 28-34) is usually the same as the sixth chapter of Exodus, that is, a person's tribe, clan and family are listed as this person's genealogy, as pointed out by D.N.Freedman (recorded in G.E.Wright, ed., The Bibble and the Ancient East). From the genealogy of the Egyptian royal family, we know that from Lancer II of the 19 dynasty to Wang Di of the 2 1 dynasty, many names of Wang Di have not been recorded. These genealogies are recorded in Genealogy of Berlin published by borchardt (published in Kitchen Ancient Times, pages 54-55).

It is clear from Numbers 3: 27 and 28 that in Moses' time, there were 8,600 Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel, all of whom came from Kohath. It can be inferred from this passage that the number of "sons" in Amelin may be a quarter of 8600 (or 2 150). So this Amram can't be the father of Moses and Aaron, because a family can't have more than 2,000 brothers. In fact, Moses' father's name is Amram, but he can't be Amram with so many children.

Fortunately, we know a relatively complete genealogy from the chronicle, which shows that there is a gap of nine or ten generations between Jacob's son and Moses. An example is chapter 7, verse 25-27 of Chronicles: There are ten generations between Ephraim and Joshua-Billy-Rifa-Lise-Tara-Tahan-Ladan-Amihu-Elishama-Nen-Joshua. The second example is Bezalel; According to Exodus 3 1, 2- 1 1, Bezalel was responsible for designing the tent of meeting, and he was Jacob's seventh grandson (see I.C. 1, 4, 5, 9, 18-20). The third example is the ninth grandson of Jacob, Elishama (see previous generation 1. 7: 22-27).

The interval between Jacob and Moses is nine or ten generations, which is very consistent with the time when the Israelis lived in Egypt for 430 years (that is, from 1875 BC to 1445 BC), with an average of 43 years for each generation. (Some scholars adopt the record of lxx Exodus 12: 40 and agree with the theory of 2 15; They think that Israelis have only lived in Egypt for 2 15 years, while each generation has an average of 2 1 year. However, in the case of Joshua and Nazareth, the theory of 2 15 years is unbelievable. Moreover, the number of 70 or 75 people who moved to Egypt with Jacob cannot increase to 2 million in more than 200 years. )

Excerpted from Ikey's collection of new Bible puzzles.