Exodus chapter 12 part 2

*It was still night when Pharoah summoned Moses and Aaron and told them to take the Israelites and all their possessions and get out of Egypt. He wanted a blessing too! The Egyptians hurried them along and gave them whatever they asked for on their way out. The text says it was because they were "favorably disposed" toward the people. Yeah, right. It also says the Israelites plundered Egypt.

*There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, not including women and children. That would be at least a million people. Verse 38 says there were others as well. The study bible speculates that some Egyptians went with them. I think, if it happened, it would probably have been their personal servants (slaves). However, there is absolutely no evidence that such an event ever happened. If you combine the plagues with the absence of over a million people, there should be evidence of a large scale economic collapse around that time.

*We are told that the Israelites left Egypt exactly 430 years from the day they entered. As I mentioned in the article in Exodus chapter 1, it would have been approximately 1337 B.C.E., if we begin counting from Bishop Ussher's date of 4,004 B.C.E. The Pharoahs who lived in and around this supposed time period are all accounted for in archaeological evidence.  The Israelites in Egypt  are not.

*Before the end of the chapter, the story of the Exodus is interrupted by more instructions about how to properly observe the Passover in the future. No foreigners, temporary residents, or hired workers may eat it. Slaves can, if they are circumcised. Any male non-Israelites wanting to celebrate the Passover must be circumcised. The Passover has to be eaten inside a house and no bones may be broken. These are strange instructions for a group of people who are themselves foreigners and temporary residents at the moment. They also no longer have houses.