37And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
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A 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.
Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
And 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.
And 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.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 37-42)Here is the departure of the children of Israel out of Egypt; having obtained their dismission, they set forward without delay, and did not defer to a more convenient season. Pharaoh was now in a good mind; but they had reason to think he would not long continue so, and therefore it was no time to linger. We have here an account, 1. Of their number, about 600,000 men (Exod. 12:37), besides women a…
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