Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1894-05-09
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
international Lesson for May ~, 1904
Israel In ExYpt=Erndna q. 1a


exodus or departure OF tho Israelites is fts
nam iea'urc. FOR the author date, etc, soc
INC Hook OF Genesis, lesson 1. first quarter
TINE Tho time OF this lesson extends from
tho time OF Joseph. u. C. 1898. TO the birth OF
Moses. ID. G. iJ7i-G4 years, according 20 COM
mon chronology or TO II. & 1874 the date Of
Moses birth according 10 many otners
PLACE 80 Egypt. particularly the land of
Goshen
CHRcSoI oSY.-There IS o general agreement
81 the Bib with the chronology derived from
the monuments But 10 must be understood
that all the dates applied TO the Egyptian dyn.
astics are vcryuncertain and Indefinite The
general order Is clear. but the exact dates arc
unknown. The dates given in all the best
Docks In Egypt tentative only and vary
greatly among themselves There Is no GER
tain chronology. In the Bible or in history. till
about Is G. 100
DURATION OF THE UoSDAcr ~ Ecypr
"c have two measures by which 10 ascertain
the duration OF the bondage Tho first Is the
'our hundred aud eighty years OF I Kings 6:i.
5ecohd Is the Tour hundred and thirty gears OF
Elk 1910. ana Gal 3:iI
CD In Kings OIL. IL is stated that the build.
Ing OF the temple. In tho fourth year of Solo
inon' was tho four hundred and eightieth
year after tho exodus. The fourth year OF
solomon was about u. c. 1912 Add the four
hundred and eighty years Oeaying on one wear
because neither tho fourth nor the four hundrei
and cighNcth were full years. and we have
ID & liSl as the date OF the exodus. The bond.
age - tho preceding four hundred and
thirty years extending from d. c. 1891 TO 1921 ,
the date OF Abraham's call from Chnldea, to
enter upon the long homeless period, OF himself
and descendants, OF which two hundred and
hfteen years were spent in Egypt
o. In Ex 1910, II, and Gal 3:i7 the dura-
ton OF the bondage Is given as four hundred
and thirty years The common chronology, as
we have seen, makes IL extend from the call OF
Abraham TO the exodus, one half OF &C. or two
hundred and fifteen years, being spent in
Egypt, and the other half in the wanderings of
Abraham Isaac and jacob. as pilgrims and
strangers. In favor OF this view, ST Paul says
In Gal 3l7, that from the covenant (or call OF
with Abraham to the giving OF tho law Oess than
year after the exodus) was four hundred and
thirty years But in Gen. 1913, IL, IL IS said
that they should be strangers in a strange
land and be afflicted four hundred
years AID nearly the same IS said I'm Elk.
la:Io But, In very truth, the children of Israel
were strangers in n strange land from .he time
that Abraham left his home for the promised
land, and during that whole period OF four hun
urcd and thirty years to the exodus they were
nowhere rulers in the land SO In lex. IL: 40
II Is said that the sojourning OF the childgS3
OF Israel, who dwclt IN Egypt, was four IN.
drcd ana thirty years But IL does not saysSs,at
the sojourning was all in Egypt, but this people
who lived in Egypt had been soiouruers for
four hundred and thirty years
on the other hand many think that the four
hundred and thirty years were all spent In
Egypt ana must date from Jacobs immigra ton
into Egypt This method necessitates one of
two changes. Either wo must nut the date OF
Jacobs coming to Egypt some two hundred
years earlier than the common chronology
U1O6j TO Is. C. 1909, which makes room for tho
four hundred and eighty years but confuses
the previous datcssor, starting with Is. c. 1904
the common date OF Jacobs Immigration
brings the exodus 10 - little beyond Is. c. 1900
In this case there must be some error I'm the
four hundred and eighty years Of ISings OIL.
and great difficulty in the numbers given In
judges. The principal reason for this view IS
that II gives abundan, time for the increase of
the Israeites from sixty-eight men TO the
OO'O)O OF the exodus tsee below in V. ~.
ISRAEL IN EGYPT.
The Immigrants Into Egvpt-Vs. l.
q. Bv series of strange providences.
and for the purpose of developing and
training them into people who could
embody the kingdom of God on earth
Jacob and his sons had come into
Egypt. The names are gwen here of
the heads of the tribes or families. 1t
Is TO nc noticed that they came every
man and his household, which fact is
of some Importance in computing the
time needful for their increase to Goo
600 men who went out from Epypt in
the exodus (Num. 1:4G). a hint as to
the numbers of the households may be
gained from the fact that in Ab-aham's
household there were at least 31S men
who could bear arms (Gen. II: ~.
The servants were reckoned rs part
OF the household, and were admitted To
the covenant and recognized as Israel
ties tGen. II: 21). Todd. The seventy
souls arc given in detail in Gen. 46. OF
these siXty-eight are men. Their wives
and daughters were additional This
fact also is TO be taken into acdount in
the calculation in regard to the in
crease.
G. And Joseph died, y. C. 1885. aged
one hundred and ten years. For sew
entecn years he lived at home, in Heb
ron; ten years he was a slave in Egypt.
three years in prison, and eighty years
he was rulcrin Egypt. He lived to see
his grcat-grandchildren Gen. 5O:23).
Ills body was embalmed, and kept in
Egypt till the Israelites went out n
great nation, when it was taken to the
land of Canaan and buried in Shechcm,
near Mounts Ebal and Gerizim lex.
1919.
The Numbers of the Israelitas.
When the Israelites left Epvot
they numbered about 600. 600 men
(Num. 1:4G), which implies a popula-
ton of about two million. From Jacob
to Joshua was eleven generations. ac-
cording to Chron. z: 23-27. The third
generation Ephraim, was born before
Jacob came TO Egypt in 1905. For the
remaining eight generations. a very
simple celebration shows that if each
ot the fifty-fye males Qeaving out ia
cob and his sons from the sixty-eipht
male descendants at this time) should
have less than an average of
four male children. the total would
amount TO 900, 900 males in the two
hundred and fifteen years to the exc.
dus. But il we take into account that
in addition there were considerable
numbers i'm their households ". u from
whom there would also be dcsCcn lants.
it is not az all improbable that the
number, should reach that sum m
these two centuries
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SCIENTIFIC NOTES.