Did Hebrews were slaves in Egypt or were they "only" foreign workers? This is one of the greatest questions in the history

Did Hebrews were slaves in Egypt or were they "only" foreign workers? This is one of the greatest questions in the history

When we are thinking the Old Testament and the Hebrews, who escaped from Egypt, we must ask one thing. Is slave happier, if that person doesn't know to be a slave? Maybe Hebrews were lived in their isolated and walled areas, without normal contact with Egyptians. And then in one day, the truth was uncovered. They were below everybody.

That caused an idea that something must be done. But the thing is that those cases have only one source, the Holy Bible, and the Old Testament, what was written by Hebrews. And in the air hangs one question, were those people realize that there was something wrong in their position?

One of the greatest mysteries of history is were Hebrews slaves in Egypt? This is the thing, what is starting to generate questions in the mid of researchers. When we think the position of slaves, was that some kind of stereotype, where Egyptians whipped those people, and then the induction question is, that how strongly those Hebrews were guarded if they were imprisoned in Egypt.

And were whipping and other kinds of punishments allowed for those particular people? There is another explanation, why Hebrews were lived in Egypt, and they were ethnically separated from the majority of people. This explanation is simple, those people were foreign workers, who worked in some special building sites, what was highly secured because they contained secrets, what the pharaoh didn't want to uncover.

So if that thing is the explanation of why Hebrews lived in Egypt, that would mean that they were hired, because those people didn't know how to communicate with ordinary Egyptians. And that's why pharaoh and his highest officials hired those people for the building sites, where the trust and secrecy were extremely important.

And the thing how pharaoh communicates with Hebrews might be really interesting. Maybe some Hebrew children were taken to grow with Egyptians, and there is a possibility, that those children spent days in the kindergarten in the language immersion and the evenings those children could spend with their parents.

The Egyptians might need those people for translating orders to normal workers, and there is a possibility that this is the thing, why some Hebrews realized, that there is something wrong in their social and economic position in the community of Egypt. Maybe those people lived in slums and the areas where they lived were enclosed, and then some children went to see normal Egyptian lifestyle, the reality was hitting their face.

But is this the explanation of escaping? Why did those people leave in one night from that place? What made them special? In that time Egypt was the richest kingdom on Earth, and that thing brought many tradesmen and another kind of people to that country. But what caused the escape? And what was the real role of Hebrews in that society?

Did those people lived in fixed houses, or did they just visited in that land for earning money, and then left to desert or somewhere like the upper Nile? One of the most interesting questions is, that did some of those people, who traveled to the upper Nile see the Mines of King Solomon? Those things are interesting things to think when we are spending time in the Evening at home.

The distance between Egypt and Israel is about 613 kilometers, but Hebrews took 40 years for that trip

The distance between Egypt and Israel is about 613 kilometers, but Hebrews took 40 years for that trip

In this text, I will use the words "Holy Land" and "promised land" about the place, where Hebrew people went after they were gone from Egypt. Here I must say that Moses and other people who were born or worked in Egypt had no change to get in that new country. The risk that those people would be traitorous and believe, that the things were better in Egypt was so big, that they must die before those people went to that area.

Sometimes people ask why Hebrews walked 40 years or 43 meters per day for finding the holy or promised land after they escaped from Egypt. The reason, for that journey, is that Hebrews were moved around the Arabian peninsula after they went to the desert because they wanted to lose the men of Pharaoh, and that is the reason, why the persons, who were born in Egypt were not able to move in the promised land. That land was reserved only their children.

The reason, why those people who were lived and worked in Egypt must die before the settlement will take the place in the holy land, was that there were people, who were worked as the leaders for the other Hebrews. And some men of Pharaoh might be promised them something for traitorous actions, but there was another reason, why those leaders of the group must vanish before people could take their place in the promised land. The thing is that what happened in Egypt must leave in there.

The people must stand on one side when the plantations and irrigation for them would be done because if somebody would think, that they live in Egypt would be better than in the new place, the entire escape and the plan for establishing own land and state would be broken. And in this case, people must stand behind the dream as one man. When we are thinking about those people, who were standing behind that dream, we must understand that they were facing many traitorous actions before those decisions.

Pharaoh has been promised many things to those people but the thing is that only the leaders of the Hebrews got the good things in the society of Egypt. Ordinary people of Hebrew community would face the things, that they were the second or third class citizens. And the thing is that those people wanted freedom. They wanted to make their own decisions, and they wanted also respect from other people. When they walked in the desert, they faced many troubles and those troubles grow them.

And during the journey, those people didn't walk in a single group. They played the regular nomadic people, and then they had the knowledge, how to build the fortresses and other kinds of things. When the time was full those people grow together and then they attacked the promised land. Maybe the other team was attacked in the front and two others from the side and back against those defenders. So the people, who lived in Holy land had no change against Hebrews. That operation was giving those people respect in the eyes of other people. Is this true or false, the decision is yours, but this is how I would make those things.