The unleavened bread, 1351 BCE

Exodus 12:15:             “Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread…”   Egyptian leavened bread from the Tomb of Kha, 1351 BCE, Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Brickmaking without straw, 1250 BCE

Exodus 5:18: Pharaoh:  “So go now and work; for you will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the quota of bricks.” Wall painting from the Tomb of Rekhmire, 15th Century BC Papyrus Anastasi IV, 1250 BC:       “. . . and there are neither men to make bricks nor...

The Israelites Enter Egypt

Deuteronomy 26:5-10: “My father was a fugitive Aramean. He went down to Egypt with meager numbers and sojourned there; but there he became a great and very populous nation. The Egyptians dealt harshly with us and oppressed us; they imposed heavy labor upon us. We...