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210 Is Not in the Bible — It Comes from a Famous Rabbinic Calculation

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  • 210 does not appear in the Bible. It comes from a traditional Jewish calculation of how long Israel was in Egypt.
  • Genesis 15:13 gives four hundred years and Exodus 12:40 gives 430, while the genealogies are short — four generations for four centuries.
  • The traditional resolution counts only 210 years in Egypt, anchored to the word redu, “go down,” in Genesis 42:2, whose letters total 210. Rashi notes it.
  • That is gematria: a genuine rabbinic practice and a kind of wordplay, but not an instruction Scripture gives. The Bible never tells readers to add up letters.
  • The one exception announces itself — Revelation 13:18 has to say a calculation is intended, because otherwise no reader would know.

210 does not appear in the Bible. It does appear in one of the most famous pieces of Jewish numerical interpretation, and that is worth explaining — because it shows exactly what gematria is and why it is not a biblical instruction. The problem the number solves Scripture gives two figures for how long Israel was in Egypt, and they do not obviously agree. Genesis 15:13 tells Abraham his descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and…

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Sources: Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Genesis 15:13; 42:2; Exodus 12:40; Revelation 13:18; Leviticus 19:26; Philippians 4:6). Rashi’s comment on the numerical value of redu at Genesis 42:2 is in his commentary on the verse; the 210-year reckoning of the stay in Egypt is the standard traditional Jewish chronology and is presented here as a reading rather than as the plain sense of the text.

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