Was Moses around when the pyramids were built?

Some mistakenly assume that these pyramids were built by the Israelite slaves whom Moses would lead to freedom, but the pyramids were already ancient when Israel was born. They had been standing for at least a thousand years by the time Moses came on the scene.



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Pyramids are by far much older. The building of pyramids in Egypt started about 4600 years ago but there appears to have one built in todays Indonesia around 10 000 years ago. The Bible, as we know it, was created around AD 223 but parts of the Torah is from 1300 BC.

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Moses' time is generally set about 1300 - 1200 BCE (give or take a couple of centuries), which is 200 to 400 years or so AFTER Joseph, and therefore at least 1000 years after the major pyramids were built ( and several hundred years after the very last ones).

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Ruins That Pre-Date The Pyramids One of the main sites to discover that dates from before the pyramids is Abydos. It dates from around 7,000 years ago - thousands of years before the pyramids. Still, most of the actual ruins one will find there (like the Temple of Seti I) were built long after the pyramids.

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The construction of the pyramids is not specifically mentioned in the Bible. What we believe about their purpose does not impinge on any biblical doctrine.

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Did the Israelites build the great Egyptian pyramids while they were slaves under the rule of different Pharaohs in Egypt? It's certainly an interesting idea, but the short answer is no.

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Genesis and Exodus do not mention the pyramids or the Sphinx, they mention Pitom and Raamses. The Egyptian hieroglyphs carved in stone depict their Gods. They buried Kings with everything they need for the afterlife in great tombs (pyramids).

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Pyramids were built for religious purposes. The Egyptians were one of the first civilizations to believe in an afterlife. They believed that a second self called the ka lived within every human being.

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