>>413363
Those babies got into all kinds of wacky adventures. Remember the time they got locked in the toy store after it closed?

Being slaves, but also, according to archaeological evidence, being paid???? Wtf guys lets sort this out, did Moses exist or is Israel an illegitimate state?

>>413363
What they got to do.

>>413363
Not existing
conversely, working on building projects as free laborers.

>>413368
>Being slaves
When did they get enslaved? By who? Why?

>>413368
They were jews, you understand. Moses tried haggling to get the workers more moolah, but when he failed he declared their standard wages were comparable to working in slavery.

>>413368
Moses might have existed, but chances are the jews were always in Cannan. Exodous was effectively a just so story rather than anything factual.

>>413363
All I know is that there was a Kingdom of Israel that existed a long time ago, then at some point they get fucked up by the Assyrians and somehow end up in Egypt enslaved.

>>413368
>States
>being legitimate
You crack me up.

>>413363
>What were they doing in Egypt in the first place?
It was essential for the narrative and aligns with the Joseph myth stories.

>>413363
>we wuz egyptians n shit

>>413397
So at what point did people start believing Exodus was a historical event?

>>413923

AFAIK, it was sort of an assumed fact, going way back, until the 1800s and Egyptology and Archeology really started to get going.

That's where we get our images of slaves sweating, getting whipped, in order to build the pyramids.

>>413363
In the old testament one of the Hebrews managed to help out a pharaoh with his problems and in return the pharaoh gave the Hebrews a place to crash

the slavery thing came about due another pharaoh entirely

though the old testament god did say that Egyptians were technically honorary Hebrews due to the previous pharaoh giving them shelter.

>>413363
The Israelites moved to shoot during the great famine described in the story of Joseph. Since Joseph was in charge of stockpiling resources, Egypt had plenty to spare. Joseph told his family, who told the other Israelites, and so on. They moved to Egypt and began multiplying at such a rate that the Egyptians feared that the Israelites would take over. The Pharoh then ordered the Israelites were to be enslaved.

>>415463
*Egypt

not shoot
damn autocorrect