How many Israelites left Egypt when Moses led them out?
When Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, they numbered a company of anywhere from 5 to 7 million people, after some 215 years in Egypt. For that period, they were the biggest nation in the then-known world, the greatest number of any one nation in that part of the world.
Les explains that God had previously told Abraham and Isaac not to go into Egypt, and when they tried it, they got into trouble until they returned to Canaan. But God told Jacob not to be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there He would make of him a great nation, and that is exactly what happened. After some 215 years of the children of Israel being in Egypt itself, Moses led them out as a company of anywhere from 5 to 7 million people. For that period in time, they were the biggest nation in the then-known world. Not by our standards, but for those standards they were, and they were the greatest number of any one nation that was in that part of the world.