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So the Hebrews went out of Egypt, while the Egyptians wept, and repented
that they had treated them so hardly. - Now they took their journey by
Letopolis, a place at that time deserted, but where Babylon was built afterwards,
when Cambyses laid Egypt waste: but as they went away hastily, on the third
day they came to a place called Beelzephon, on the Red Sea; and when they
had no food out of the land, because it was a desert, they eat of loaves
kneaded of flour, only warmed by a gentle heat; and this food they made
use of for thirty days; for what they brought with them out of Egypt would
not suffice them any longer time; and this only while they dispensed it
to each person, to use so much only as would serve for necessity, but not
for satiety. Whence it is that, in memory of the want we were then in,
we keep a feast for eight days, which is called the feast of unleavened
bread. Now the entire multitude of those that went out, including the
women and children, was not easy to be numbered, but those that were of
an age fit for war, were six hundred thousand.
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