Exodus 12:38
Good News Translation
A large number of other people and many sheep, goats, and cattle also went with them.

New Revised Standard Version
A mixed crowd also went up with them, and livestock in great numbers, both flocks and herds.

Contemporary English Version
Many other people went with them as well, and there were also a lot of sheep, goats, and cattle.

New American Bible
A crowd of mixed ancestry also went up with them, with livestock in great abundance, both flocks and herds.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And a mixed multitude, without number, went up also with them, sheep and herds, and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many.

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And a mixed multitude, without number, went up also with them, sheep and herds, and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many.

and a mixed multitude.

Numbers 11:4 For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat?

Zechariah 8:23 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: In those days, wherein ten men of all languages of the Gentiles shall take hold, and shall hold fast the skirt of one that is a Jew, saying: We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.

Context
The Exodus Begins
37And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to Socoth, being about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children. 38And a mixed multitude, without number, went up also with them, sheep and herds, and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many.39And they baked the meal, which a little before they had brought out of Egypt in dough: and they made hearth cakes unleavened: for it could not be leavened, the Egyptians pressing them to depart, and not suffering them to make any stay; neither did they think of preparing any meat.…
Cross References
Exodus 10:9
Moses said: We will go with our young and old, with our sons and daughters, with our sheep and herds: for it is the solemnity of the Lord our God.

Exodus 17:3
So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured against Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt, to kill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst?

Numbers 11:4
For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat?

Numbers 20:19
And the children of Israel said: We will go by the beaten way: and if we and our cattle drink of thy waters, we will give thee what is just: there shall be no difficulty in the price, only let us pass speedily.

Numbers 32:1
And the sons of Ruben and Gad had many flocks of cattle, and their substance in beasts was infinite. And when they saw the lands of Jazer and Galaad fit for feeding cattle,

Deuteronomy 3:19
Leaving your wives and children and cattle. For I know you have much cattle, and they must remain in the cities, which I have delivered to you.

Joshua 8:35
He left out nothing of those things which Moses had commanded, but he repeated all before all the people of Israel, with the women and children, and strangers, that dwelt among them.

Nehemiah 13:3
And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated every stranger from Israel.

Exodus 12:37
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