On the night of the Exodus, there was drama in the palace of a major kind. At midnight, the oldest son of Thutmosis III, probably in his middle thirties, died. The crown-prince was dead. The death sentence throughout Egypt broke the unwilling spirit of the Egyptians leaders and pharaoh Thutmosis III.

Moses and the people left. Over a million of them. They had a bright spotlight from God's provision leading showing and navigating them where to walk fast.

Behind them it was pitch-dark.

They went probably by one of the "highways" for travellers towards and next to the Red Sea on the way to the Nile Delta.

This night, they were not to cross the Nile Delta but the Red Sea.

About an hour after they left or two hours after they left, Thutmosis III's mourning turned into anger. He was the Napoleon of his days and humiliated by this event sofar, he commandeered the chariots to go after them, he leading them.

Thumosis III's age at this point was 1521-1450 = 71 years.

When Thutmosis III was three years old, Moses arrived in the court of Hatshepsut coming from his mother. Moses was then 12 years old and the ages of these two palace boys were close enough.

The palace politics made it difficult for Moses and Thutmosis III to be "friends" in the palace. The young Hatshepsut's husband slept with a street woman and Thutmosis III was born. She was furious. Moses' arrival was the blessing in her outraged life. She hated Thutmosis III until her death and we may assume that she  favored Moses much to the dismay of Thutmosis III.

On the night Thutmosis III died, his body was never found. The body in his coffin at the Oriental Museum in Chicago, is not Thutmosis III. X-rays conducted by the Oriental Museum indicated that it is the body of a man of 35 years old. Of course, the oldest son of Thutmosis III who died at Midnight struck by an Angel.

The grave was painted and completed in such haste after the death of Thutmosis III that something superstitious must have made the workers run away so that a second team came in to finish the job, a team different that the one who worked on it before his death.

The newspaper reporter or CNN reporter of Thutmosis III was Amenemheb. In his tomb is a description of what happened that morning of the Exodus, the tomb at Sheik Abd el Gurna.

Exodus 14:20 says that a cloud brought darkness to the Egyptian side but light to the Israelite side all night long. When the Lord looked down "a pillar of fire" the Egyptians said: "Let's get away from the Israelites! The Lord is fighting for them against Egypt" (Exodus 14:25).

We will present the text of Amenemheb as it is given. It supports the history that Thutmosis III was nearly 71 years old. 


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