Where did Exodus 5:7 take place (needs a lot of straw)

[Bharat Jhunjhunwala]

Oh, I don't contest at all that burnt bricks in the Indian style require more straw than unbaked bricks of the Egyptian kind.
I just want to say that the scriptural detail about Jews having to collect their own straw in no way disproves an Egyptian location for the Exodus, since at least a certain amount of it is required, and having to obtain it is a noticable extra workload and hassle.
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And anyways, the whole thing is entirely speculation and has very little weight as evidence:
If some guy in Babylon or Canaan is writing that in the first millennium, as I suspect it happened: What the hell does he know about the composition of Egyptian -style or Indian-style mud bricks, it's far more likely that he just wrote what would make sense in terms of Babylonian or Canaanite brick production.

The problem of bricks become important when we take stock of all the problems of the Exodus. Starting with the bricks, the river becoming red or stopping to flow is the Hakra river which stopped flowing around 1500 BCE. The volcano is the Taftan volcano. The second Yam Suph is the shuttle Arab and so on. So, we should not look at the bricks in isolation, but look at it together.

I am very happy with the fact that you are engaging with the issue but in this type of discussion, there can be no proof. We have different levels of probabilities and all I am saying is that all topics taken together, there is a greater probability that Exodus took place from the Indus Valley.

 

[River Sea]

@Bharat Jhunjhunwala

From @Bharat Jhunjhunwala book Common Prophets, I learned that all over Indus Valley, ancient India, they built with burnt-bake bricks.

Page 198 Common Prophets

The making of baked bricks is also indicated in the large amount of straw required to bake them. Straw is used as a binding substance in the making of mud bricks and as fuel in making baked bricks. The Biblical Archaeology Society Staff says that only 0.6 per cent straw by weight is added as a binder in making mud bricks. A much greater quantity of straw is required in making baked bricks.