I will build a great nation from you. I will bless you and make your name famous. People will use your name to bless other people.
Exodus 12:37 - Easy To Read Version The people of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth. There were about 600,000 men. This does not include the children. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children. American Standard Version (1901) And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, besides children. Common English Bible The Israelites traveled from Rameses to Succoth. They numbered about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. Catholic Public Domain Version And the sons of Israel set out from Rameses to Soccoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides little ones. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to Socoth, being about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children. |
I will build a great nation from you. I will bless you and make your name famous. People will use your name to bless other people.
Then God led Abram outside. God said, “Look at the sky. See the many stars. There are so many you can’t count them. In the future, your family will be like that.”
Then God said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go to Egypt. In Egypt I will make you a great nation.
Joseph did what Pharaoh said and gave his father and brothers land in Egypt. It was the best land in Egypt, {in the eastern part of the country} in the land of Rameses.
The Egyptian people decided to make life hard for the people of Israel. So the Egyptians put slave masters over the people. These masters forced the Israelites to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses for the king. The king used these cities to store grain and other things.
Moses answered, “All of our people, young and old, will go. And we will take our sons and daughters, and our sheep and cattle with us. We will all go because the Lord’s feast is for all of us.”
All the men 20 years old or older were counted. There were 603,550 men, and each man had to pay a tax of 1 beqa [445] of silver. (Using the official measure, a beqa is 1Ú2 shekel. [446])
“Count all the people of Israel. List the name of each man with his family and his family group.
Moses said, “Lord, there are 600,000 men walking around here. And you say, ‘I will give them enough meat to eat for a whole month!’
So those were the people of Israel. They were counted by families. The total number of Israelite men in the camps, counted by groups, [25] is 603,550.
On the 15th day of the first month, they left Rameses. That morning after Passover, the people of Israel marched out of Egypt with their arms raised {in victory}. All the people of Egypt saw them.