3685 - To Egypt and Back by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 5, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 10.

3685 — To Egypt and Back

By Editor

How did the virgin Mary travel to Egypt and back? What was the distance?

Evidently she rode on a donkey, as is often pictured by some of the artists. That was one of the ordinary ways of travel at that time, and her husband may have walked by her side, or also ridden one.

The distance was probably about 300 miles from Bethlehem. To the river of Egypt, or the border of Egypt, was about 100 miles, but it was some distance from there to the center, or capital of Egypt, supposing that she journeyed that distance. Journeying in that way, the space covered would probably be not far from twenty to twenty-five miles a day.