A:A reasonable expectation is that the two and a half million Israelites who left Egypt, and the similar number of offspring born duringthe Exodus, would wear out their clothes several times over during the forty years wandering in the desert. Another reasonable expectation is that the few desert dwellers they met would not have been able to provision such an enormous multitude.
The answer is found in the fact that nearly all scholars say there never was an Exodus from Egypt as described in The Bible. The Hebrew people were actually Canaanites who left the region of the rich coastal cities of Palestine, to settle in the hitherto sparsely populated hinterland. With no Exodus, there is no paradox of the clothes that never wore out.
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