The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.
Parallel translations
- WEB The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.
- KJV And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
- NKJV Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.
- NASB Now the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, aside from children.
- NLT That night the people of Israel left Rameses and started for Succoth. There were about 600,000 men, plus all the women and children.
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Israel journeys from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.
Overview
The exodus begins as a vast multitude sets out, the men alone numbering some six hundred thousand, implying a total likely in the millions. This fulfills God's promise to multiply Abraham's offspring into a great nation. While faithful scholars discuss the precise meaning of the large numbers, the text plainly testifies that God brought out an immense people exactly as He had pledged to the patriarchs.
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- Num 1:46And all those counted totaled 603,550.
- Exod 38:26a beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men.
- Num 33:5The Israelites set out from Rameses and camped at Succoth.
- Num 11:21But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’
- Num 33:3On the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from Rameses. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,
- Gen 47:11So Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
- Exod 1:11So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
- Num 26:51These men of Israel numbered 601,730 in all.
- Gen 46:3“I am God,” He said, “the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
- Gen 12:2I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
- Gen 15:5And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
- Num 2:32These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. The total of those counted in the camps, by their divisions, was 603,550.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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