I'll tell you the Passover Midrash. Only first militant atheists will ask to retire.

In biblical criticism, one often hears the question: what did the Golden Calf come from in the desert, from where did so much gold from the recent slaves, who for generations have hung up bricks in Egypt for generations? Our oral tradition is what this says about this. The Jews came out of Mizraim with innumerable riches, it is believed that in every family there were about a hundred donkeys laden with gold, silver and precious stones. After the death of all the firstborns, the Egyptians were so frightened that they themselves brought their wealth and flocks to the land of Goshen, begging the Jews to leave Egypt. The Lord considered this just, because the Jews, firstly, worked for two hundred years for the Egyptians for free, and secondly, they left some kind of housing and property, that is, it was part of the divine punishment, and besides the fulfillment of the promise, Then given by the Lord to Abraham, that his descendants will leave slavery with riches.

In a word, the day before the release all 600 thousand men (minus one - 599,999, one place in the caravan God left for themselves) were engaged in stowage of luggage, considered camels and sheep, all except Moses. He took an iron coffin from the Nile with Joseph's remains, so as to be promised to take him with him to the Holy Land and bury him there. When later Bezalel made the Ark of the Covenant, in which the tables of the Law were kept, the cart of oxen always drove him at the head of the Jewish caravan, the next was a cart with the coffin of Joseph. By the way, in the camp of each of the 12 tribes the first was a cart with the remains of its founder. In general, the gold would be enough for not one bullock, but a tribal herd.

Moreover, these riches multiplied when the sea, after it closed behind the Jews passing through its bottom, threw ashore the bodies of Pharaoh warriors with chariots, chopped in gold and silver.

Interesting detail. When the Jews saw their pursuers dead, they became so inflamed that some decided to sing The Song of Joy. The Lord severely interrupted this attempt, because one can not rejoice at death, even the worst enemy - they are all the creations of His hands.

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