| Exodus 12:37
| *And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to Socoth, being about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.
| Year of the World 2513, Year before Christ 1491. Ramesse. The first of the 42 stations or encampments of the Hebrews. (Menochius) --- Socoth, or tents, perhaps the Scenae of Antoninus, or the Mischenot, mentioned chap 1:11. --- About. Moses does not speak with such precision, as after the people had been numbered, and were found, 13 months after, to be 603,550 men, without the Levites, or those under 20 years. (Calmet) --- Women and old men, and Egyptians, who joined their company, might make them amount to three millions. (Menochius)
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