And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
Parallel translations
- WEB The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.
- BSB The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and 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.
Cross-references & the web
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- Num 1:46Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
- Exod 38:26A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
- Num 33:5And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
- Num 11:21And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
- Num 33:3And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
- Gen 47:11And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
- Exod 1:11Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
- Num 26:51These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
- Gen 46:3And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
- Gen 12:2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
- Gen 15:5And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
- Num 2:32These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
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