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120,000 Israelite men left Egypt. That's not counting women and children. 51% of the world's population is female. (No idea how many children.)
Let us assume within that first year, more boys became men and more girls became women. Let us also assume since they didn't have as many distractions as we have today (TV, the Internet, traditional jobs, etc.) while they stayed in the wilderness, more people were born than died. (I'm not sure of that, but it seems reasonable.)
So, the law comes down, and people are supposed to sacrifice their firstborn animals (of the clean variety, not the unclean) and their first fruits (as much as they can have first fruit out in the wilderness) for all sorts of reasons -- sin offering, wave offerings, thanksgiving offerings, etc.
One tabernacle, and they're supposed to take it there.
120,000 men! Have you ever seen 120,000 people hanging out together? It's crowded. Kind of frightening, because that's a lot of people. There's many more, so I'm guessing some are close to the tabernacle and some are waaaaaaaaaaaaaay over there. More are somewhere in between. (They weren't huddle together in one acre.)
The math problem? How did the priest do that much work? Especially given the big thing that happened in that wilderness was the group grew. What about that old couple waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over there that have trouble walking that far? What about the young couple waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over there with four kids all under the age of four?
Can anyone give me some insight how they pulled that off in the wilderness? And given they were even further away by the time Solomon's temple showed up, that's even more walking. How did that work?
Let us assume within that first year, more boys became men and more girls became women. Let us also assume since they didn't have as many distractions as we have today (TV, the Internet, traditional jobs, etc.) while they stayed in the wilderness, more people were born than died. (I'm not sure of that, but it seems reasonable.)
So, the law comes down, and people are supposed to sacrifice their firstborn animals (of the clean variety, not the unclean) and their first fruits (as much as they can have first fruit out in the wilderness) for all sorts of reasons -- sin offering, wave offerings, thanksgiving offerings, etc.
One tabernacle, and they're supposed to take it there.
120,000 men! Have you ever seen 120,000 people hanging out together? It's crowded. Kind of frightening, because that's a lot of people. There's many more, so I'm guessing some are close to the tabernacle and some are waaaaaaaaaaaaaay over there. More are somewhere in between. (They weren't huddle together in one acre.)
The math problem? How did the priest do that much work? Especially given the big thing that happened in that wilderness was the group grew. What about that old couple waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over there that have trouble walking that far? What about the young couple waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over there with four kids all under the age of four?
Can anyone give me some insight how they pulled that off in the wilderness? And given they were even further away by the time Solomon's temple showed up, that's even more walking. How did that work?