Word: exoduses
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...version, the Vulgate, Jerome translated Keren, the Hebrew word for "ray, horn" as "cornuta," Latin for "horns." Thus, "when Moses came down from the mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony: and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord" (Exodus 34:29}. While scholars have since determined that Moses was not literally horned but rather surrounded by luminous rays, pre-Renaissance and Renaissance artists generally depicted him with horns...
...Moses do it? According to Exodus 12:37, he led out of Egypt about 600,000 men, plus women and children-a total of more than 2,000,000 Jews...
...supply problem involved has long staggered another Jew with some experience in leading his people: Israel's Premier and first Defense Minister, David Ben-Gurion. Last week, while the rest of the world was racked by the summit crisis, Prime Minister Ben-Gurion's views on Exodus 12:37 threw the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) into an uproar, a motion of no confidence, and a hassle that continues in the press...
...University's retired Professor Harold H. Rowley, Ben-Gurion reasoned as follows: Genesis 46:26 indicates that only 66 people, apart from Joseph and his two sons, went to Egypt. If Menashes' son went too, the total was 70. They stayed in Egypt only three generations, despite Exodus 12:40, which puts their stay at 430 years. Ben-Gurion's reasoning: Levi was known to have had three sons who went to Egypt with Joseph-Gershon, Merari and Kohath (Numbers 3:17); Kohath in turn had four sons-Izehar, Hebron, Uzziel and Amram (Numbers...
...weeks the refugee flow had been increasing. Suddenly, over the Easter weekend, it became a torrent. In four days, more than 4,200 East Germans, carrying their meager belongings in sacks and briefcases, showed up in West Berlin and at West German border points. It was the biggest exodus since the 1953 revolt in East Germany. All last week hundreds more arrived daily as harried West Berlin officials hastily arranged special flights to move them out of the city...