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In my Old Testament studies this morning, I was deeply impressed by the amount of the Children of Israel that Yahovah delivered out of the bondage of the Egyptians. The sheer number of these People is staggering to say the least. The responsibility that Elohim placed on Moses is indeed staggering as well. The following is a commentary from John Gill....
Exodus 12:37
"The number of the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt were about six hundred thousand on foot, that were men, besides children; and which is confirmed by the account that Chaeremon (h) the Heathen gives, who makes the number of those drove out of Egypt, as he calls them, 250,000; and says that when they came to Pelusium, they found there 380,000 left there by Amenophis; which makes in all 630,000. And so Philo the Jew says (i), they were above 600,000, besides old men, children, and women, that could not easily be numbered; and the word "about" will admit of it, since it may be used not to diminish, but to increase the number; and it is certain that in the second year after they were come out of Egypt, their number was 600,550 without the Levites, who were not numbered; and they that were numbered were such as were twenty years old and upward, and able to go forth to war, Num_1:9 and such were those here, as Jarchi observes; so that if there were 600,000 men of twenty years old and upwards, able to bear arms, besides women, children, and old men, it may well be thought that in all there were no less than near two millions and a half; for, according to the ordinary proportion allowed in other nations of four to one between the number of the whole people in a nation, and those men fit to bear arms, that the number of the Israelites alone, of all ages and sexes which went out of Egypt along with Moses, will amount to 2,400,000 souls (j); which was a prodigious increase of seventy persons in little more than two hundred years, and a most marvellous thing it was, that in so large a number of persons there was not one feeble among them, Psa_105:37."
Wow!! Moses, a humble man, least likely to lead such an unbelievable amount of people. Without his mighty God to fill him, Israel would have perished in the wilderness.
This account of Israel being delivered out from the Egyptians so impressed me as an impossible mission given to this humble person called Moses, just proves to me what can happen to a person who is totally consecrated to our living Lord to carry out His will.
Exodus 12:37
"The number of the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt were about six hundred thousand on foot, that were men, besides children; and which is confirmed by the account that Chaeremon (h) the Heathen gives, who makes the number of those drove out of Egypt, as he calls them, 250,000; and says that when they came to Pelusium, they found there 380,000 left there by Amenophis; which makes in all 630,000. And so Philo the Jew says (i), they were above 600,000, besides old men, children, and women, that could not easily be numbered; and the word "about" will admit of it, since it may be used not to diminish, but to increase the number; and it is certain that in the second year after they were come out of Egypt, their number was 600,550 without the Levites, who were not numbered; and they that were numbered were such as were twenty years old and upward, and able to go forth to war, Num_1:9 and such were those here, as Jarchi observes; so that if there were 600,000 men of twenty years old and upwards, able to bear arms, besides women, children, and old men, it may well be thought that in all there were no less than near two millions and a half; for, according to the ordinary proportion allowed in other nations of four to one between the number of the whole people in a nation, and those men fit to bear arms, that the number of the Israelites alone, of all ages and sexes which went out of Egypt along with Moses, will amount to 2,400,000 souls (j); which was a prodigious increase of seventy persons in little more than two hundred years, and a most marvellous thing it was, that in so large a number of persons there was not one feeble among them, Psa_105:37."
Wow!! Moses, a humble man, least likely to lead such an unbelievable amount of people. Without his mighty God to fill him, Israel would have perished in the wilderness.
This account of Israel being delivered out from the Egyptians so impressed me as an impossible mission given to this humble person called Moses, just proves to me what can happen to a person who is totally consecrated to our living Lord to carry out His will.
