from Rameses] Whereof see Annot. on Genesis 47:11. to Succoth; the Hebrews journeying out of Egypt towards Canaan had (as they are noted by such as carefully compute them) fourtie two stations in the Desert: whereof Rameses was the first, Succoth the second, which was betwixt Egypt and the Red Sea: where we must understand; that that part was sometimes reckoned to Egypt; but being untilled, usually the manured part onely, was called Egypt, and this part was called Succoth, of the Boothes or Tabernacles of the Hebrewes, first pitched in that place, Numbers 33:5. The word Succoth, is derived from a root, signifying to hide, to cover, and to defend, which is the proper use of those moveable mansions, as well as of those which are fixed or settled. sixe hundred thousand on foot] That is, such as (not under twenty yeares of age) were able men to march in Militarie manner, without need of support of Horses, or Carts to carry them: besides women, children, decrepit old men, which (with the wicked multitude who were partly Egyptians) are conceived to amount to the number of about halfe so many, to wit, three hundred thousand persons.