Discussing why Hebrews with Live-Stock still Pestered Moses for Meat
Although the Hebrews had been enslaved by Pharoah for many decades, by no means were they impoverished when Moses eventually led them out of Egypt after the punitive series of ten plagues unleashed by God against the deified monarch and the pagan inhabitants. What items of value did they leave with when evacuating en masse from the land of their bondage? First of all, there was the divinely-facilitated plunder where the Hebrews “asked from the Egyptians for articles of silver, articles of gold and clothing” (Exodus 12:35) which were readily granted because the bereaved natives were only too eager “to send them [ viz Hebrews] out of the land in haste ” (Exodus 12:33) given the wide-scale tragedy where earlier at midnight, as forewarned by Moses, their first-born had been stricken by what Exodus 12:23 cryptically calls the destroyer (or, more colloquially, angel of death). Secondly, Exodus 12:37 records that there were “about six hundred thousand men on foot (besides childre