Exodus 12:37

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Summary

And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.

The children

Numbers 33:3

Rameses

Exodus 1:11

Genesis 47:11

Six hundred

General references

Numbers 2:32

Numbers 11:21

Bible References

The children

They journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover the sons of Israel started out boldly in the sight of all the Egyptians,

Rameses

So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with

hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.

So Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had ordered.

Six hundred

a beka a head (that is, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary), for each one who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.

And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so

you shall be a blessing;

And He took him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

He said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there.

even all the numbered men were 603,550.

But Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are 600,000 on foot; yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, so that they may eat for a whole month.’

General references

These are the numbered men of the sons of Israel by their fathers’ households; the total of the numbered men of the camps by their armies, 603,550.

But Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are 600,000 on foot; yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, so that they may eat for a whole month.’