Exodus??

[Hitch]

Is there a passage or two that tells us of the Egyptians who joined with Israel at the Exodus?

Or is that idea incorrect to begin with?


Take care

Hitch

 

[Big Mouth Nana]

Is there a passage or two that tells us of the Egyptians who joined with Israel at the Exodus?

Or is that idea incorrect to begin with?


Take care

Hitch

I have searched Exodus and beyond, and I can't find that anywhere. It was all doom and gloom as far as the Egyptian people go at the exodus out of Egypt. There might have been some believers that joined them, but the bible doesn't make reference to it.

 

[Rabbi Cohen]

BS"D

Hitch, it is a valid idea. - Ex. 12:38, and again in Num 11:4, they are called the mixed multitude or erev rav in Hebrew. (Rashi tells us that the number of erev rav numbered 2,400,000) Here is a quote from the JFB Christian Commentary:

And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

Mixed multitude ... fell a lusting. These consisted of Egyptians (see the note at Ex 12:38). To dream of banquets and plenty of animal food in the desert becomes a disease of the imagination; and to this excitement of the appetite no people are more liable than the natives of Egypt. But the Israelites participated in the same feelings, and expressed dissatisfaction with the manna on which they had hitherto been supported, in comparison with the vegetable luxuries with which they had been regaled in Egypt.

(from Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 1997 by Biblesoft)

Shalom,
R.Cohen

 

[Hitch]

BS"D

Hitch, it is a valid idea. - Ex. 12:38, and again in Num 11:4, they are called the mixed multitude or erev rav in Hebrew. (Rashi tells us that the number of erev rav numbered 2,400,000) Here is a quote from the JFB Christian Commentary:



Shalom,
R.Cohen

Thanx .That may very well be it. I remembered it as an obscurity but my teacher has long since taken a better chair so I couldnt reach him.

thanx again

Hitch