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Departure of the Israelites ( David Roberts, 1829) The Exodus ( Hebrew: יציאת מצרים, Yəṣīʾat Mīṣrayīm: lit. 'Departure from Egypt' [a]) is the founding myth [b] of the Israelites whose narrative is spread over four of the five books of the Pentateuch (specifically, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy ).
v. t. e. The Book of Exodus (from Ancient Greek: Ἔξοδος, romanized : Éxodos; Biblical Hebrew: שְׁמוֹת Šəmōṯ, 'Names'; Latin: Liber Exodus) is the second book of the Bible. It is a narrative of the Exodus, the origin myth of the Israelites leaving slavery in Biblical Egypt through the strength of their deity named Yahweh, who ...
Causes of the second wave, April–June 1948. According to Morris the "Haganah and IZL offensives in Haifa, Jaffa and eastern and western Galilee precipitated a mass exodus." [89] ". Undoubtedly ... the most important single factor in the exodus of April–June was Jewish attack.
The Crossing of the Red Sea, by Nicolas Poussin (1633–34) The Crossing of the Red Sea or Parting of the Red Sea ( Hebrew: קריעת ים סוף, romanized : Kriat Yam Suph, lit. "parting of the sea of reeds") [1] is an episode in the origin myth of The Exodus in the Hebrew Bible . It tells of the escape of the Israelites, led by Moses, from ...
World Jewish population around 7.7 million, 90% in Europe, mostly Eastern Europe; around 3.5 million in the former Polish provinces. 1881–1884, 1903–1906, 1918–1920. Three major waves of pogroms kill tens of thousands of Jews in Russia and Ukraine. More than two million Russian Jews emigrate in the period 1881–1920.
The Plagues of Egypt ( Biblical Hebrew: מכות מצרים ), in the account of the Book of Exodus, are ten disasters inflicted on biblical Egypt by the God of Israel (Yahweh) in order to convince the Pharaoh to emancipate the enslaved Israelites, each of them confronting Pharaoh and one of his Egyptian gods; [1] they serve as "signs and ...
Attempting to locate many of the stations of the Israelite Exodus is a difficult task, if not infeasible. Though most scholars concede that the narrative of the Exodus may have a historical basis, [9] [10] [11] the event in question would have borne little resemblance to the mass-emigration and subsequent forty years of desert nomadism ...
Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-030-40675-2. By 1948, the majority of Palestinians, about 700 000 to 800 000 people from 500 to 600 villages, were displaced. They were either expelled or fled from their homes for fear of being killed, as had actually taken place in a number of villages. ^ Gerber, H. (2008).