A Biblical and historical account

I. The Historic Characters

Exodus 1:1-7, “Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.” Now we know that the Hyksos, an Asiatic people (some ancient historians link them to the Amalikites) invaded the eastern Nile Delta in the Twelfth dynasty, initiating the Second Intermediate Period…