Goldfoot Genealogy

 Nadene Goldfoot                                               

As I traveled on my very short walk today, being I'm going to  be 88 in a few weeks, I thought of Moses who started his very long walk at age 8o.  I realized that he never went back home after arriving in Egypt and meeting up with Aaron, his long forgotten brother.  To make such a move, he had to travel with a large entourage of all his family for safety reasons, for an 80 year old man 4,000 years ago would be as much in danger on the road as one would today if alone.  So he had to have traveled with his wife and 2 sons and servants from Midian to Egypt.  

Midian is way south of the Dead Sea and across from the Sinai Peninsula in today's Jordan.  Did Moses cross water to get to Egypt?  

In recent days, Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has been a sparsely populated desert region between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. On its southern tip, Sharm el-Sheikh resort is a base for diving and snorkeling around the reefs of Ras Mohammed National Park. Inland, 6th-century St. Catherine’s Monastery is near biblical Mount Sinai, where the 2,285m summit is renowned for its sunrise views. 

85% of Israel's land is made of the Negev Desert.  

    What we see of Israel is the Negev Desert land, and then there's the Sinai Desert of Egypt.  Desert, desert, desert; lots of sand.  

Midian was the location of Moses’ 40-year exile from Egypt, circa 1486-1446 BC (based on biblical chronology). During that time, he married the daughter of the priest of Midian (Jethro), and tended his flocks. He also visited the Mountain of God, later called Mount Sinai. (cf. Exod. 2:15-3:1; 4:18-20; 18:1-5).

Moses traveling like Abraham before him , no improvement in transportation from Midian to Egypt 

Moses and company must have walked in heat at least 150 miles.  How did he do it?  Walking, riding donkeys and or camels,  and maybe in a wagon now and then.  For an 80 year old that must have been 81 by the time he arrived in Egypt, that was pretty hard riding on the tush.  He must have had a very healthy heart, as he died at 120 years.  

Moses was on the move for 40 years starting at age 80.  He was awesome!  I hope he traveled in some sort of conveyance.  

Incidently, Beersheba or Beer Sheva, officially Be'er Sheva is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", It's a city that goes back to Bible days to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, a big, important Jewish center.  

Resource:

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sinai

Labels: Egypt, Midian, Moses, Negev Desert, Sinai Desert, travel, walking

# posted by Nadene Goldfoot @ 2:02 PM