> "The Spartans were not native to Greece. The historian Herodotus wrote that the Spartans arrived in Greece from *Egypt.* The Spartans are also noted for celebrating *new moons*—an Israelite practice—and the seventh day of the month (author Steven Collins, who writes about this Simeon-as-Sparta theory, explains that this could be a corruption of worship on the seventh day of the week). And the Spartans are known to have worshiped a “great lawgiver” from their “dim past”—whom Collins suggests could be Moses."
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