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Line 54: − − The Early Date is much better supported from Scripture, which specifically requires four hundred eighty years between the Exodus and the groundbreaking of the [[Temple]] built by [[Solomon]].<ref name=Groundbreak/> Several archaeologists have looked for battle-damage and other evidence for the Early Date in and around [[Jericho]], [[Ai]], and [[Hazor]], and have found it.<ref>Lorenzini, D. Massimiliano. "[http://www.angelfire.com/nm/massimolorenzini/exodus.html Evidence for the Early Date of the Exodus]." 2002. Retrieved July 8, 2007.</ref>
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# 1445-1446 BC ("The Early Date")
# 1445-1446 BC ("The Early Date")
# 1290 BC ("The Late Date")
# 1290 BC ("The Late Date")
The reign of Solomon lasted between 970 - 930 BC.<ref>http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~prudky/pdf/Kitchen-2001_BAR-How_We_Know.pdf/ How we know when Solomon ruled</ref> According to 1 Kings 6:1, the exodus took place 480 years earlier than the fourth year of Solomon's reign (966 BC), which would provide a date for the exodus at 1446 BC, during the reign of Amenhotep II. Bryant G. Wood states "Working back from Solomon’s fourth year... brings us to ca. 1446 BC for the date of the exodus."<ref>Wood, Bryant G. "The Rise and Fall of the 13th-Century Exodus-Conquest Theory." JOURNAL-EVANGELICAL THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 48.3 (2005): 475.</ref>
The reign of Solomon lasted between 970 - 930 BC.<ref>http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~prudky/pdf/Kitchen-2001_BAR-How_We_Know.pdf/ How we know when Solomon ruled</ref> According to 1 Kings 6:1, the exodus took place 480 years earlier than the fourth year of Solomon's reign (966 BC), which would provide a date for the exodus at 1446 BC, during the reign of Amenhotep II. Bryant G. Wood states "Working back from Solomon’s fourth year... brings us to ca. 1446 BC for the date of the exodus."<ref>Wood, Bryant G. "The Rise and Fall of the 13th-Century Exodus-Conquest Theory." JOURNAL-EVANGELICAL THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 48.3 (2005): 475.</ref>