I’m talking literal miles per hour with that group. Not whether they could have a spiritual connection for that long.
I’m saying that a group including women and children would not reach the required miles per hour to cover that distance, become judged to wander for forty years in the wilderness and then enter the land in presumably less than forty years from the place they had been wandering.
The whole trek would have taken approximately 50 years or so based on how long Moses is said to have lived and the fact that he dies before entering the land. In forty years, you would not be able to cover that much distance with that many people, much less the ten years the Bible actually suggests it took to get from point a to point b.
I am doing estimates in my head, but I feel pretty confident with them considering I’ve read the first five books of the Bible more than 10 times completely.
This would be impossible unless they were all walking as fast as Elijah when he was coming down the mountain.
This is not an endorsement of the following website, but they do have rather detailed information about the Exodus.
There are 50
locations identified in the Bible that were stopped at during the 40-year journey from Goshen to the Jordan River.
Mapping all of this out, and looking at the travel rates based upon an 8-hours of walking/day when they traveled, the required rate is on average 1 mph, which seems very reasonable, at least to me. That's almost a crawl, as would be expected for such a large group of people.
It also seems to have been forgotten that these people had their own herds, and had spoiled the Egyptians before leaving, and thus would have had plenty of animal-driven carts to carry their personal possessions as well as their young and elderly.
So it's very difficult to understand exactly where you came up with your wild guess that the entire trek would somehow had to have taken 50 years, or how you estimated the travel rate, because neither of those figures appear to make any sense and look to have been pulled out of thin air.
You routinely make nonsensical claims like this one, offering up your opinions as if they are facts, when in fact they are nothing but unsubstantiated opinions based on very poor assumptions.
It seems your starting point is that the Bible is a work of fiction, and that you are here to try to con others into agreeing with you, while distorting or ignoring all of the facts which prove you to be in error.
Perhaps if you instead opened your mind to the possibility
the Bible is
NOT a work of fiction, and looked at
all of the evidence
objectively, you would lose the urge to continually try to prove you are somehow right and our Creator is somehow wrong, as if you know more than He does.
We all suffer from this same issue, to varying degrees, and
NEED to snap out of it. So please do not be offended by what's been shared with you.