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</ref> In more recent times, evidence has shown that Kohanim share close genetic links that do not exist in non-Kohanim Jewish or non-Jewish populations.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Behar DM, Saag L, Karmin M, Gover MG, Wexler JD, Sanchez LF, Greenspan E, Kushniarevich A, Davydenko O, Sahakyan H, Yepiskoposyan L, Boattini A, Sarno S, Pagani L, Carmi S, Tzur S, Metspalu E, Bormans C, Skorecki K, Metspalu M, Rootsi S, Villems R | display-authors = 6 | title = The genetic variation in the R1a clade among the Ashkenazi Levites' Y chromosome | journal = Scientific Reports | volume = 7 | issue = 1 | pages = 14969 | date = November 2017 | pmid = 29097670 | pmc = 5668307 | doi = 10.1038/s41598-017-14761-7 | quote = Remarkably, the five Ashkenazi Cohen samples formed the tight cluster J1b-B877, shared only with one Yemenite, one Bulgarian and one Moroccan Cohen coalescing ~2,570 ybp (Table 1). | bibcode = 2017NatSR...714969B }}

</ref> In more recent times, evidence has shown that Kohanim share close genetic links that do not exist in non-Kohanim Jewish or non-Jewish populations.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Behar DM, Saag L, Karmin M, Gover MG, Wexler JD, Sanchez LF, Greenspan E, Kushniarevich A, Davydenko O, Sahakyan H, Yepiskoposyan L, Boattini A, Sarno S, Pagani L, Carmi S, Tzur S, Metspalu E, Bormans C, Skorecki K, Metspalu M, Rootsi S, Villems R | display-authors = 6 | title = The genetic variation in the R1a clade among the Ashkenazi Levites' Y chromosome | journal = Scientific Reports | volume = 7 | issue = 1 | pages = 14969 | date = November 2017 | pmid = 29097670 | pmc = 5668307 | doi = 10.1038/s41598-017-14761-7 | quote = Remarkably, the five Ashkenazi Cohen samples formed the tight cluster J1b-B877, shared only with one Yemenite, one Bulgarian and one Moroccan Cohen coalescing ~2,570 ybp (Table 1). | bibcode = 2017NatSR...714969B }}

</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Sahakyan H, Margaryan A, Saag L, Karmin M, Flores R, Haber M, Kushniarevich A, Khachatryan Z, Bahmanimehr A, Parik J, Karafet T, Yunusbayev B, Reisberg T, Solnik A, Metspalu E, Hovhannisyan A, Khusnutdinova EK, Behar DM, Metspalu M, Yepiskoposyan L, Rootsi S, Villems R | display-authors = 6 | title = Origin and diffusion of human Y chromosome haplogroup J1-M267 | journal = Scientific Reports | volume = 11 | issue = 1 | pages = 6659 | date = March 2021 | pmid = 33758277 | pmc = 7987999 | doi = 10.1038/s41598-021-85883-2 | bibcode = 2021NatSR..11.6659S | quote = Another sub-branch—J1a1a1a1a1a1a2-B877—is specific to the Jewish Cohens [...] Its TMRCA of ~ 3.2 kya (95% HPD = 2.4–4.0 kya) overlaps with the previous estimate.}}</ref>

</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Sahakyan H, Margaryan A, Saag L, Karmin M, Flores R, Haber M, Kushniarevich A, Khachatryan Z, Bahmanimehr A, Parik J, Karafet T, Yunusbayev B, Reisberg T, Solnik A, Metspalu E, Hovhannisyan A, Khusnutdinova EK, Behar DM, Metspalu M, Yepiskoposyan L, Rootsi S, Villems R | display-authors = 6 | title = Origin and diffusion of human Y chromosome haplogroup J1-M267 | journal = Scientific Reports | volume = 11 | issue = 1 | pages = 6659 | date = March 2021 | pmid = 33758277 | pmc = 7987999 | doi = 10.1038/s41598-021-85883-2 | bibcode = 2021NatSR..11.6659S | quote = Another sub-branch—J1a1a1a1a1a1a2-B877—is specific to the Jewish Cohens [...] Its TMRCA of ~ 3.2 kya (95% HPD = 2.4–4.0 kya) overlaps with the previous estimate.}}</ref>

*There is a stark lack of physical evidence of the physical Exodus of the Jews from Egypt compared to other events in the Bible. This is possibly due to the environment in which they fled. Around 2013, a vehicle used 40 years ago in the Yom Kippur was uncovered under 52 feet (or 16 meters) of sand.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Exodus Is Not Fiction |url=https://reformjudaism.org/exodus-not-fiction |access-date=2023-06-18 |website=Reform Judaism |language=en}}</ref> If that is the rate of sinking in the desert, it would be much more difficult to uncover artifacts from an Exodus from over 3000 years ago. If the rate of sinking was constant to what it was during the sample period of the vehicle, any evidence of the Exodus would be over 3,900 feet (1,300 meters) below the surface, or around 75% of a mile.

*There is a stark lack of physical evidence of the physical Exodus of the Jews from Egypt compared to other events in the Bible. This is possibly due to the environment in which they fled. Around 2013, a vehicle used 40 years ago in the [[Yom Kippur War]] was uncovered under 52 feet (or 16 meters) of sand in the Sinai desert.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Exodus Is Not Fiction |url=https://reformjudaism.org/exodus-not-fiction |access-date=2023-06-18 |website=Reform Judaism |language=en}}</ref> If that is the rate of sinking in the desert, it would be much more difficult to uncover artifacts from an Exodus from over 3,000 years ago. If the rate of sinking was constant to what it was during the sample period of the vehicle, any evidence of the Exodus would be over 3,900 feet (1,300 meters) below the surface, or around 75% of a mile.

== Deuteronomy ==

== Deuteronomy ==