good points... I think, or am willing to consider, that using different methods of translating the hebrew numbers could yield a smaller number...
600,000 fighting men makes for some odd situations in other wilderness stories... Israel encounters other wilderness tribes folk... sometimes these folks give the Israelites real military problems...
the Israelites are miraculously supplied by God... the wilderness folks didn't have that... their numbers must have been small, based on what the land could support...
I'm guessing the wilderness peeps could muster maybe a few hundred, or in good circumstances, a few thousand fighters...
600,000 Israelites should have been able to step on them without noticing...
600,000 fighting men makes for some odd situations in other wilderness stories... Israel encounters other wilderness tribes folk... sometimes these folks give the Israelites real military problems...
the Israelites are miraculously supplied by God... the wilderness folks didn't have that... their numbers must have been small, based on what the land could support...
I'm guessing the wilderness peeps could muster maybe a few hundred, or in good circumstances, a few thousand fighters...
600,000 Israelites should have been able to step on them without noticing...