Exodus 12:36-38
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
36 Indeed the Lord had made the Egyptians so well-disposed toward the people that they let them have whatever they asked for. And so they despoiled the Egyptians.
Departure from Egypt. 37 The Israelites set out from Rameses(A) for Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, not counting the children. 38 A crowd of mixed ancestry[a] also went up with them, with livestock in great abundance, both flocks and herds.
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- 12:38 Mixed ancestry: not simply descendants of Jacob; cf. Nm 11:4; Lv 24:10–11.
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