Exodus 12:37
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
38And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
Cross References
Genesis 12:2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.
Genesis 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.
Exodus 1:11Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Numbers 1:46even all those that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Numbers 11:21And Moses said: 'The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and yet Thou hast said: I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month!
Numbers 33:3And they journeyed 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 a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians,
Matthew Henry on Exodus 12:30-37
The Death of the Firstborn. ( b. c. 1491.) 29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead. 31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said,… Read the whole commentary →