What does Exodus 12:38 Mean?

Study Notes

mixed
This mixed multitude, standing for unconverted church-members, was a source of weakness and division, then as now Numbers 11:4-6 . There had been a manifestation of divine power, and men were drawn to it without change of heart. CF. Luke 14:25-27 .

mixt mixed

CF. Exodus 12:38 . (See Scofield " Exodus 12:38 ") . Unconverted church members, unable to desire or understand Christ as the Bread of God Exodus 16:35 . See Scofield " Exodus 16:35 " will clamour for things pleasing to the flesh in the work and way of the church: sumptuous buildings, ornate ritual, an easy doctrine. Alas! they lead away the unspiritual believers also.

Context Summary

The 600,000 were males above 20 years of age, Numbers 1:3-43. This would make the entire body not less than 2,000,000 of people of all ages. Succoth was the first rallying point on which the various bands converged. It stood in open country, over which their flocks and herds spread themselves. It was, indeed, a night to be observed, when the Exodus took place, because, as Bunsen says, it was the beginning of history; and we may almost say further that it was the hour when Israel was born as a nation. God called His son out of Egypt. At that moment also the period of which Abraham had been apprised ran out. See Genesis 15:13; Galatians 3:17; and Exodus 12:40 here.

Notice the stress laid on circumcision, which was the type of putting away the sins of the flesh. See Colossians 2:11. We must be separated from sin, before we can claim our portion in the Paschal Lamb, or join the Exodus. [source]

Chapter Summary: Exodus 12

¹  The beginning of the year is changed
³  The Passover is instituted
¹¹  The import of the rite of the Passover
¹⁵  Unleavened bread
²⁹  The firstborn are slain
³¹  The Israelites are driven out of the land
³⁷  They come to Succoth
⁴¹  The time of their sojourning
⁴³  The ordinance of the Passover