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The Exodus Begins

Exodus 12:37

In 11 translations

BSB
The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.Succoth means booths or shelters or tabernacles.
KJV
¶ And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
WEB
The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, in addition to children.
ASV
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, besides children.
LSV
And the sons of Israel journey from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, apart from infants;
YLT
And the sons of Israel journey from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, apart from infants;
DBY
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, besides children.
DRC
And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to Socoth, being about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.
GNV
Then the children of Israel tooke their iourney from Rameses to Succoth about sixe hundreth thousand men of foote, beside children.
JPS
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.
LXXE
And the children of Israel departed from Ramesses to Socchoth, to the full number of six hundred thousand footmen, even men, besides the baggage.Gr. having departed.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיִּסְע֧וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל מֵרַעְמְסֵ֖ס סֻכֹּ֑תָה כְּשֵׁשׁ־מֵא֨וֹת אֶ֧לֶף רַגְלִ֛י הַגְּבָרִ֖ים לְבַ֥ד מִטָּֽף׃
LXX-Br
Ἀπάραντες δὲ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ ἐκ Ῥαμεσσῆ εἰς Σοκχὼθ εἰς ἑξακοσίας χιλιάδας πεζῶν, οἱ ἄνδρες, πλὴν τῆς ἀποσκευῆς.

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  • Exodus 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.
  • Numbers 1:46And all those counted totaled 603,550.
  • Numbers 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.’
  • Numbers 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,
  • Numbers 33:5The Israelites set out from Rameses and camped at Succoth.
  • Genesis 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.
  • Exodus 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.
  • Numbers 2:32These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. The total of those counted in the camps, by their divisions, was 603,550.
  • Numbers 26:51These men of Israel numbered 601,730 in all.
  • Genesis 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.
  • Genesis 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.
  • Genesis 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.”

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