My goal is not to force Scripture to match our scientific understanding from archaeology. Archaeology has been wrong too many times in the past. It is based on a series of educated guesses, subject to both limited, deteriorated data and biased interpretation. Just look at what archaeology first said about the Hittites!

 No, my goal is to find plausible ways to harmonize Scripture with itself. I put my faith in God as the author and protector of Scripture, and He is the only one who really knows. He was there. We weren’t. As much as I’d love to have only 50,000 or so going into Canaan, the preponderance of Scripture indicates 600,000 fighting men plus all their wives and children - a minimum of 2 million total. Yes, Accuracy in Genesis could be right, our translations could be wrong, and I do appreciate their sincerity, but their scheme seems to mess up too many other Scriptures for me to accept it.

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