When the people heard the law, they separated from Israel all those of foreign descent.
Exodus 12:38 - Revised Standard Version A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very many cattle, 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.
And 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, for we must hold a feast to the Lord.”
But the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”
Now an Israelite woman's son, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the people of Israel; and the Israelite woman's son and a man of Israel quarreled in the camp,
Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’ ”
Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving; and the people of Israel also wept again, and said, “O that we had meat to eat!
And the people of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of your water, I and my cattle, then I will pay for it; let me only pass through on foot, nothing more.”
Now the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle; and they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for cattle.
But your wives, your little ones, and your cattle (I know that you have many cattle) shall remain in the cities which I have given you,
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived among them.