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摘要
- 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.
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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.
