Facts About the Exodus
What would you need to lead a group the size of ancient Israel from Egypt to the Promised Land?

According to the quarter-master general in the army, Moses would have to have 1,500 tons of food each day. Do you know that to bring that much food each day, two freight trains, each a mile long, would be required?

Furthermore, you must remember they were out in the desert, and they would have to have firewood for the use of cooking the food. This would take 4,000 tons of wood and a few more freight trains, each a mile long, just for one day. And just think, they were forty years in transit!

Then they would have to have water. If they only had enough to drink for themselves and their animals, and enough to wash a few dishes, it would take 1,000,000 galloons each day. This would be equivalent of a freight train of tank cars, 1,800 miles long just to bring water. They had no lakes, and only a few wells. How did they get that much water?

Another thing, they had to cross the Red Sea in just one night. Now if they went on a narrow part, double file, the line would be 800 miles long. And would take 35 days and nights to get through. So there had to be a space in the Red Sea 3 miles wide, and they'd have to walk across 5,000 abreast to get over in one night.

But then, another problem: Every time they camped at the end of the day, a campground 2/3 the size of the state of Rhode Island was needed. That comprises an area of 25 miles wide, and 30 miles long, or a total or 750 square miles. Think of it. This space was just for nightly camping.

Did Moses figure all this out before they left Egypt?

Obviously God had a hand in it...

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posted by David F. Sims, doing my part to "turn the world upside down" (Acts 17:6)
All quotes taken from the New American Standard Bible.

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