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Everything is relative, usually science has some kind of explanation. Moses may have been wandering about for 40 days but to the people it Felt like 40 years. [or as climate changes perhaps it was 40 years] but there are even today Oasis's out there they may have camped at for a generation or so then moved on.
The rain of frogs, fish that happens every so often may explain the Manna from heaven. The word desert may be a term used for wilderness, people did bring along their live stock, they had to be fed.
Some of the photos of the mid West after just 2 years of little rain, lakes drying up, land parched, could the manna from heaven been actually rain that caused the land to renew itself ???
Trying to decipher the colloquialisms of the ancients, and translate it into our language and time, --we use descriptive words to describe a "SEA" of grain going as far as the eye can see, this has nothing to do with Salt Water. We do call the Conestoga Waggons Prairie Ships.
Not to forget today we call a motorcycle an iron horse, What the hell is a Mule Skinner, or an Oil field worker do to call them a roust about, what is a ridge runner, to someone 2,000 years in the future this will be a problem.
I am sure the people that under the guidance of God wrote the Bible and its history described what they saw at the time and had to use descriptive words as we do today.