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God calls Moses at the burning bush Dated from the sources quoted below
True span 4004 BC – AD 100
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How we know the date Ussher's Annals (1650) gives 1491 BC (its year of the world 2513 b).
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The sources, word for word “2513. b. Mosi, pascenti gregem Jethronis soceri sui ad montem Horebum, in rubo ardente et incombusto Deus apparet; et ad populum suum a servitute AX cyptica liberandum vocat.”
Ussher, Annales Veteris Testamenti (1650), Latin text in The Whole Works of James Ussher, vols. VIII–XI (Dublin, 1864) · vol. VIII, AM 2513 b · gives 1491 BC Sources