Exodus From Egypt
... Bibilical Proof: 1 Kings 6:1 also tells us that the start of the constuction of the Temple in the fourth year of King Solomons reign took place 480 years after Exodus.According to a correlation of the regnal dates of Israelites Kings with outside Egyptians and Assyrain sources,this would roughly place the event of Exodus in 1440 B. ... C is further emphasized from a literal interpretation of the Bible in Exodus 12:40 which states that "the time the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years", Judges 11:26 also states while "Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, three hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time?" 1 Kings 6:1 "states Now it came about in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomons reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord".