As to the 4/5 issue, this is from a Medrash on one word that has other translations as well. We also have no idea what the situation was at the time. With so little insight, we can’t answer much definitively nor ask. But from the fact that those that went out were in 49 levels of Tuma and were Ovdei Avoda Zara, just imagine what the rest were like. They were very likely completely void of any Bnei Israel identity.
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