The Mixed Multitude and the Stars in the Heavens

The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years at the end of 430 years on that very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out for the land of Egypt. But if you're just thinking numerically, that's a hyperbole like the stars in the heaven. Everybody knows it's not supposed to be an exact precise number. Well, in the ancient world, these inflated numbers were like, they were sort of like these sorts of expressions. They had a goal to accomplish. That was the glorification of the king or the military leader or or their God or gods. And everybody knew that. So nobody was surprised. The second issue derives from verse 40.