"Then God said to Moses, 'I AM WHO I AM.' And you shall say to the Israelites, 'I AM WHO I AM has sent me to you.'" Exodus 3:14

The story of the Exodus is the story of the liberation of the Israelite people. "Exodus" means departure, liberation. After 430 years, God used Moses to liberate Israel through 10 plagues upon Egypt. However, there are critics of the Christian faith who deny this event. They say that there is no record in Egypt of the Exodus and that there is no archaeological evidence (such as tombs, pottery, and tools) in the desert that millions of people lived there.

Regarding this first objection, the culture of Egypt refutes it. Egypt had a culture of king worship. He was seen as a kind of deity who could not err. Therefore, it was common for Egyptians not to record defeats. Since the exodus was a defeat, they probably preferred not to record it.

Regarding the second objection, when the Bible states that there were 600,000 men, and with women and children added to this number it would be about 2 million, it is argued that the word "thousand," "Eleph" in Hebrew, can mean "platoon". In this sense, there would be 600 platoons. This would give between 6,000 and 20,000 men. This would explain the absence of archaeological evidence in the desert. It would be a smaller number that left no trace.

However, in my research and studies, I found some archaeological findings in favor of the exodus. The excavations at Avaris prove the Israelites' stay in Egypt; the Merneptah Stele (a monument from 1208 BC) mentions Israel already in Canaan; and the Ipwer Papyrus, although rejected by scholars for not directly mentioning Israel and Moses, speaks of a difficult period in Egypt where the waters turned to blood. The thesis defended today is that the exodus did indeed happen, but on a smaller scale.