Jynx

two answers to this little snippet......

- you are trying to apply an English misspelling to a Hebrew text! sorry, can't be done - you'd have to check the original language to see if a misspelling was at all possible.

- while we're talking about OT stories and Moses doing grand things: today's scholars are now able to read ancient egyptian like we all can read english. a wealth of records have been retrieved from the moses time (using the emperor's name, and with a LOT of margin on both sides). now, for those of you who believe that the exodus happened the way it did in the bible, please answer me this: if moses caused ten plagues in Egypt, culminating with the death of EVERY SINGLE FIRST-BORN, then made off with all the hebrew slaves, and THEN drowned the entire egyptian army in the red sea (or any sea, for that matter), why can not a single shred of evidence of this be found in any egyptian records?

there IS evidence that the group of people who would become the hebrew nation were actually thrown out of egypt due to a cruel and tyrannical government of the people.

now, for those interested (cue sound of crickets chirping), i used to believe that christianity was the One True Way and that the bible was without flaw, giving weight to the idea that there was a God, and he was the Christian God. many things have convinced me otherwise, and one of the best bits was found here:

History is Written to Glorify the Winners

so. why believe the bible? i consider it nothing more than a grand work of literature, and as a container of both mythology and some fairly good guides to living (if you pick the right guides).