When the people heard the law, they separated from Israel all those of foreign descent.
Exodus 12:38 - New Revised Standard Version A mixed crowd also went up with them, and livestock in great numbers, both flocks and herds. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And a mixed multitude went also with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds. American Standard Version (1901) And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle. Common English Bible A diverse crowd also went up with them along with a huge number of livestock, both flocks and herds. Catholic Public Domain Version But also an innumerable mix of common people ascended with them, sheep and herds and animals of diverse kinds, exceedingly many. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And a mixed multitude without number went up also with them, sheep and herds and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many. |
When the people heard the law, they separated from Israel all those of foreign descent.
Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old; we will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, because we have the Lord's festival to celebrate.”
But the people thirsted there for water; and the people complained against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?”
A man whose mother was an Israelite and whose father was an Egyptian came out among the people of Israel; and the Israelite woman's son and a certain Israelite began fighting in the camp.
Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from nations of every language shall take hold of a Jew, grasping his garment and saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”
The rabble among them had a strong craving; and the Israelites also wept again, and said, “If only we had meat to eat!
The Israelites said to him, “We will stay on the highway; and if we drink of your water, we and our livestock, then we will pay for it. It is only a small matter; just let us pass through on foot.”
Now the Reubenites and the Gadites owned a very great number of cattle. When they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle,
Only your wives, your children, and your livestock—I know that you have much livestock—shall stay behind in the towns that I have given to you.
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the aliens who resided among them.