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Date: August 22, 2016 12:33PM
"The region was among the earliest in the world to see human habitation, agricultural communities and civilization. During the Bronze Age, independent Canaanite city-states were established, and were influenced by the surrounding civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Minoan Crete, and Syria. During 1550–1400 BCE, the Canaanite cities became vassals to the Egyptian New Kingdom who held power until the 1178 BCE Battle of Djahy (Canaan) during the wider Bronze Age collapse. Modern archaeologists dispute parts of the Biblical tradition, the latest thinking being that the Israelites emerged from a dramatic social transformation that took place in the people of the central hill country of Canaan around 1200 BCE, with no signs of violent invasion or even of peaceful infiltration of a clearly defined ethnic group from elsewhere. The Philistines, part of Sea Peoples of Southern Europe, arrived and mingled with the local population, and according to Biblical tradition, the United Kingdom of Israel was established in 1020 BCE and split within a century to form the northern Kingdom of Israel, and the southern Kingdom of Judah. The region became part of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from c. 740 BCE, which was itself replaced by the Neo-Babylonian Empire in c. 627 BCE. A war with Egypt culminated in 586 BCE when Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II and the local leaders were deported to Babylonia, only to be allowed to return under the Achaemenid Empire."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine )
So Egypt's influence ended around 1178 BCE, and during the time just before supposed "Lehi," Palestine was under the control of first the Assyrian and then Babylonian empires.
Which means if anything, "Lehi" would have done business in Assyrian or Babylonian. Not any kind of "Egyptian."
Of course, the initial speculation that "...Lehi was probably a successful businessman in Egyptian-dominated Palestine and may have written documents in Egyptian..." has no basis in fact, not even in the fictional BoM. It's an excuse invented to try and justify Smiths made-up language, one that's contradicted by actual history (which Smith didn't know).