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Event · Egypt and the Exodus1490 BC

The twelve spies; Israel refuses to enter the land

Dated from the sources quoted below

True span4004 BC – AD 100
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Told in

Numbers 13:1–33Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,Numbers 14:1–45All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
Opening words from the World English Bible (public domain); the passage list is in-house

Who and where

MosesJoshuaCalebKadesh ›
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How we know the date

Ussher's Annals (1650) gives 1490 BC (its year of the world 2515 a).

Written in-house from the sources below · every year is a quotation

The sources, word for word

“2515. a. Israelite Kadeshi consederunt dies multos; seeundum dies, quibus ibi eonsederant*.”

Ussher, Annales Veteris Testamenti (1650), Latin text in The Whole Works of James Ussher, vols. VIII–XI (Dublin, 1864) · vol. VIII, AM 2515 a · gives 1490 BC

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