The Hebrews that were slaves in Egypt, were are they from?

Question

Were they from Ethiopia?

Answer 1

Historians and scholars speculate that they were originally located on the plains of gaza, then due to a military alliance with Egypt moved into the delta region and secured that area from Egypt's enemies.

They also believe that the Hebrews weren't actually slaves.

Answer 2

The generation of Hebrews that moved into Egypt to be with Joseph were not slaves. It was later generations (born there, from Egypt) that became enslaved. The slaves, from Egypt went into the desert with Moses. That generation died in the desert because they did not believe the promise from God.

To answer the question - The Hebrews that were slaves in Egypt were from Egypt.

Answer 3

They came from the Middle East. First Abraham and Sarah had Isaac. Then Isaac and Rebeka had Jacob and Esau. Then Jacob was later call Israel which means "prince with God" Jacob and his family went to Egypt during a famine, because God had prepared Joseph, Jacob's son, to deliver the world from this famine in Egypt. This family grew into the nation of Israel. Later God brought them out of Egypt to the Land he had already promised Abraham so many years before.

Answer 4

They were a nomadic tribe called the Hebrai possibly from the North of what is now India. No-one is quite sure exactly. They eventually ended in Egypt under a friendly dynasty and were well treated hard-working immigrants but the Dynasty changed, became jealous of their success (a familiar story for Jews!) and enslaved them.
The rest is history!

Answer 5

Ok, now that we heard from the peanut gallery, here is an educated response.

Abraham and Sarah were from Ur of the Chaldees - in Babylon.

God sent Abraham to Palestine.

Abraham had Isaac.

Isaac had Jacob (Israel).

Israel had twelve sons.

Eleven of the sons sold their twelfth brother, Joseph, into slavery to the Ishmaelites.

The Ishmaelites sold Joseph to Potifar, an officer in the Egyptian Pharaoh's court.

Potifar's wife falsely charged Jospeh with rape and he was imprisoned.

Joseph was summoned from prison to interpret a dream of Pharoah and when he did so Pharaoh made him Prime Minister of Egypt.

A famine struck the entire world and only Egypt, through the wisdom God gave Joseph, stock piled enough food.

Israel sent his eleven sons to buy food from Egypt, where they met their brother Joseph but did not recognize him.

Joseph identified himself to his brothers and had them go and get Israel and bring the entire family to Egypt.

Joseph introduced his family to Pharaoh, who welcomed them and gave them the entire land of Goshen.

400 years later a pharaoh came to the throne who had never heard of Joseph, who enslaved all of the Israelites.

Moses was born and, by the hand of God, led the israelites out of Egypt.

After wandering about for 40 years the Israelites returned to the home of their father Abraham in Palestine.

However, many Ethiopians, who were also conquered by Pharaoh, left with the Israelites.

Later, the Ethiopian Queen left her capitol of Sheba to visit Solomon.

She returned to her country with the Biblical Hebrew religion. (The official history of Ethiopia records that she brought the ark of the covenant with her for safe keeping, which could allude to the biblical reference that God would raise up an alter in Egypt - which controlled Ethiopia many times through history).

Later, the Book of Acts says that God sent one of the Apostles to the Sinai Penninsula to witness to an officer of Ethiopian Queen Candice's court who was reading the Hebrew Scriptures in his chariot.

He accepted Jesus as the Messiah foretold in the Scriptures and took the Christian faith back to Ethiopia.

To this day Ethiopia is historically known as the first Christian nation in the world.

When the Israelites returned to Palestine in 1948, there was a massive influx of Ethiopian Jews and Christians to the Nation of Israel.

Answer 6

No, Palestine

Answer 7

Israel