Exodus 12:37
And the children of Israel journeyed from Ra'meses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
38And a mixed multitude also went up with them; and flocks, and herds, a very large amount of 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 thou shalt be a blessing:
Genesis 46:3And he said, I am God, the God of thy father; fear not to go down into Egypt; for a great nation will I make of thee there:
Exodus 1:11And they set over taskmasters, to afflict them with their burdensome labors; and they built treasure cities, for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.
Numbers 1:46Even all they that were numbered, were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Numbers 11:21And Moses said, Six hundred thousand men on foot is the people, in the midst of whom I am; and yet thou hast said, Flesh will I give them, that they may eat a whole month.
Numbers 33:3And they set forward from Ra'meses in the first month; on the fifteenth day of the first month, on the morrow after the passover-sacrifice the children of Israel went out with a high hand before the eyes 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 →