Today, I am reading and commenting on  Exodus 13-15.

As I have been reading Exodus this year, from time to time I look something up regarding the events described in it.  Almost every time, at least one of the results I get says that the events described in Exodus never really happened.  The account given here about the origin of Passover makes that hard for me to believe.  Passover contains such explicit references to the events surrounding the Israelites leaving Egypt that I have trouble understanding how it could ever come to be if the Exodus story was just made up.  Passover commemorates what God did for the Israelites.  In order for the story of Exodus to be made up, Passover would need to exist independently of it and then evolve as it began to be included.  You could not invent a ritual like Passover at the same time you made up the story because everyone would know that the events it “commemorates” did not happen.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.