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32 Take (A)both your flocks and your herds, as you have spoken, and go, and bless me also.”

Israel Goes Out from Egypt

33 (B)And the Egyptians strongly pressed the people to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We will all be dead.” 34 So the people took up (C)their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls bound up in the clothes on their shoulders.

35 (D)Now the sons of Israel had done according to the word of Moses—they had asked from the Egyptians for articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing; 36 and Yahweh had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they (E)plundered the Egyptians.

37 And the (F)sons of Israel journeyed from (G)Rameses to Succoth, about (H)six hundred thousand men on foot, aside from the little ones. 38 A [a](I)foreign multitude also went up with them, [b]along with flocks and herds, a (J)very [c]large number of livestock.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 12:38 Or mixed, cf. Neh 13:3; Jer 25:20; 50:37
  2. Exodus 12:38 Lit and
  3. Exodus 12:38 Or glorious, cf. 9:24; lit heavy