Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Princeton Review, Vol. 28: April 1856
Kurtz adopts and defends the chronology which understands Ex. Xii. 40 in its most obvious sense, and makes the abode in Egypt to have been 430 years although he seems to think it necessary to assume an error in the text, Num. Xxvi. 59. Three centuries and a half of this period are passed over with the simple mention of the only fact which they presented of consequence to the sacred historian, the immense multiplica tion of the people. He then proceeds at once to the circum stances which paved the way for their leaving Egypt and en tering upon their separate existence. The people must have amounted in the aggregate to two millions when they left Egypt, as they numbered capable of bearing arms. These were not all sprung from the 66 lineal descendants of Jacob, who entered Egypt, but from their entire households and retinues, which no doubt amounted to several thousands. Abraham was able to summon from his household 318 men to pursue after the captors of Lot: and Jacob returning from Padan-aram had accumulated a sufficient retinue to divide them, on encounter of the Old Testameztt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
