The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.
God's power to multiply a nation is no more difficult than creating mankind at the beginning. The impious sneer that such numbers could not naturally arise from a single family in so short a time, but they mock what Moses wrote not as mere history but as an exaltation of God's extraordinary work in building His Church.
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They departed at once without delay, knowing Pharaoh's mind would not hold. From seventy souls in two centuries arose this vast multitude, a blessing from God commanding fruitfulness. The mixed rabble who followed, however, proved a snare to them and likely abandoned Israel when they learned of forty years in the wilderness.
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Commenting on Exodus 12:37-42
They were thrust out by urgent persuasion, not force, though later pagan writers twisted this into fables of disease and filth. The haste left them no time to leaven dough or prepare victuals, they baked unleavened cakes over coals in the desert, carrying what dough they had brought from Egypt.
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