Bill wrote in
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On Jun 4, 2:31 pm, Ed Gordon wrote:
Bill wrote
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Here's the exact quote: Exodus 14:21 says, "And Moses stretched
out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back
by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land,
and the waters were divided." KJV

I guess whoever wrote that book was no sailor.

Wilbur Hubbard-

Except the exact quote was written in Aramaic, not English so the
translator could have been wrong.

I know all about the Bible. Exodus wasn't written in Aramaic. It was
written in Hebrew. Moses was a Jew. The man didn't speak Aramaic, he
spook Hebrew. That's how the slang for Jews got started. Some people
call Jews "Hebes" short for Hebrew.

But that's interesting about the east wind. Sounds like it shoulda
been a west wind. I don't think translators were stupid enough to
change east to west. I agree it's a mistake. Probably Moses dictated
it wrong or maybe way back in his day when they said east wind maybe
they meant wind blowing towards the east?

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Sorry wrong part of the bible. Your right. But the point is that
maybe the translation was suppossed to be, as someone else suggested,
'Sea of Reeds' in which case there may not have been a body of water
involved at all and the direction could be correct. Or maybe the
person that made up the story didn't know their geography well enought
to get the story right.



No no no. There's no question the Exodus was going east. Any body of
water they had to cross was on their east. Why would they cross a body
of water that was on their west? Sea of Reeds, Red Sea no matter the
name the body of water had to be to the east of the Exodus or there
would be little reason to go across it. Check out the maps in the Bible
and you'll see what I mean.


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