Who dwelt - Read: the time in which they sojourned. The obvious intention of Moses is to state the duration of the sojourn in Egypt.

THE DEPARTURE OF ISRAEL, THEIR NUMBERS, AND THE TIME OF THE EGYPTIAN SOJOURN.

The two principal statements of this passage …

Now the sojourning of the children of Israel. The beginning of this period is not reckoned from Jacob's coming down into Egypt, for it is …

Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in
Egypt

The Septuagint ver…

The children of Israel set out without delay. A mixed multitude went with them. Some, perhaps, were willing to leave their country, devastated by p…