and thee, which we shall not fail to keep - neither we nor thou - in a place where both shall have even chances." Moses said: "Your tryst is the Day of the Festival [yaum al-z?na] , and let the people be assembled when the sun is well up." [Qur'an 20:58-59] The day of the encounter in the Qur'an is called yaum al-z?na . Z?na means a thing with which or by which one is adorned, ornamented, decorated, etc. [84] So, the phrase yaum al-z?na can mean a day when people are dressed up smartly, or the city is adorned or perhaps both. It could even mean a day of pompous celebration or more precisely a day of festival. [85] Could it refer to the Heb-Sed (or simply Sed) festival ? The Heb-Sed Festival, [86] also called a jubilee, was usually celebrated 30 years after a king's rule and thereafter, every three years. Ramesses II celebrated a record 11 or 12 of these after his Heb-Sed festival in year 30. It was to renew the potency of the Pharaoh and to assure a long reign in the afterlife. One of the most important aspects of this festival is that it was probably witnessed by ordinary citizens only very rarely. 4. Conclusions Those Christian scholars who date the Exodus can be broadly divided into two groups: one which believes that the Bible should be the sole basis of dating and the other group which uses ancient near eastern archaeology. Both these