TRUTHINESS?
WHERE AM I GOING WRONG in thinking there are some logic errors here:
Moses brought 10 plagues upon Egypt to change Pharaoh's mind about letting God's people go.
The 5th plague is to destroy only the Egyptian livestock:
6 And the next day the Lord did it: All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one animal belonging to the Israelites died.
A few days later the 7th plague is described:
21 But those who ignored the word of the Lord left their slaves and livestock in the field. 22 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that hail will fall all over Egypt—on men and animals and on everything growing in the fields of Egypt.”
The Fifth plague either killed ALL THE LIVESTOCK or it didn't!
What gives?
Further, Don't forget Pharaoh Ramses'horses. After being wiped out in the plagues, they got drowned in the Red Sea.
Are we to guess they died twice?
Further exaggerations are seen in the claimed population growth of the Hebrews, descendants of Abraham (from Ur of the Chaldean), who entered the land with a total population of 70 persons.
After only four generations over a span of 215 (or 350 or 430) years, they left with a population of 600,000 men over 20 years of age, "all that were able to go forth to war in Israel," in addition to 22,000 Levite males, women, children, and the elderly.
"We're not talking about truth, we're talking about something that seems like truth – the truth we want to exist" - Stephen Colbert on the origin of the word "truthiness."