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Israel’s Journey from Egypt Reviewed

1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, who went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the ahand of Moses and Aaron.  
2 Now Moses wrote down the starting points of their journeys at the command of the Lord. And these are their journeys according to their starting points:
3 They adeparted from Rameses in bthe first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out cwith boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians.  
4 For the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, awhom the Lord had killed among them. Also bon their gods the Lord had executed judgments.  
5 aThen the children of Israel moved from Rameses and camped at Succoth.  
6 They departed from aSuccoth and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.  
7 aThey moved from Etham and turned back to Pi Hahiroth, which is east of Baal Zephon; and they camped near Migdol.  
8 They departed1 from before Hahiroth and apassed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, went three days’ journey in the Wilderness of Etham, and camped at Marah.  
9 They moved from Marah and acame to Elim. At Elim were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there.  
10 They moved from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
11 They moved from the Red Sea and camped in the aWilderness of Sin.  
12 They journeyed from the Wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah.
13 They departed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
14 They moved from Alush and camped at aRephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.  
15 They departed from Rephidim and camped in the aWilderness of Sinai.  
16 They moved from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped aat Kibroth Hattaavah.  
17 They departed from Kibroth Hattaavah and acamped at Hazeroth.  
18 They departed from Hazeroth and camped at aRithmah.  
19 They departed from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perez.
20 They departed from Rimmon Perez and camped at Libnah.
21 They moved from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
22 They journeyed from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.
23 They went from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.
24 They moved from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.
25 They moved from Haradah and camped at Makheloth.
26 They moved from Makheloth and camped at Tahath.
27 They departed from Tahath and camped at Terah.
28 They moved from Terah and camped at Mithkah.
29 They went from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.
30 They departed from Hashmonah and acamped at Moseroth.  
31 They departed from Moseroth and camped at Bene Jaakan.
32 They moved from aBene Jaakan and bcamped at Hor Hagidgad.  
33 They went from Hor Hagidgad and camped at Jotbathah.
34 They moved from Jotbathah aand camped at Abronah.  
35 They departed from Abronah and camped at Ezion Geber.
36 They moved from Ezion Geber and camped in the aWilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.  
37 They moved from aKadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the boundary of the land of Edom.  
38 Then aAaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of the Lord, and died there in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.  
39 Aaron was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
40 Now athe king of Arad, the Canaanite, who dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.  
41 So they departed from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.
42 They departed from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.
43 They departed from Punon and acamped at Oboth.  
44 aThey departed from Oboth and camped at Ije Abarim, at the border of Moab.  
45 They departed from1 Ijim and camped aat Dibon Gad.  
46 They moved from Dibon Gad and camped at aAlmon Diblathaim.  
47 They moved from Almon Diblathaim aand camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.  
48 They departed from the mountains of Abarim and acamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho.  
49 They camped by the Jordan, from Beth Jesimoth as far as the aAbel Acacia Grove in the plains of Moab.  

Instructions for the Conquest of Canaan

50 Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, saying,
51 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: a‘When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan,  
Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
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Numbers 33:1-49

This list was written out by Moses at God' s command Numbers 33:2, doubtless as a memorial of God' s providential care for His people throughout this long and trying period.

Numbers 33:3-6. For these places, see the marginal reference.

Numbers 33:8

Pi-hahiroth - Hebrew "Hahiroth," but perhaps only by an error of transcription. However, the omitted "pi" is only a common Egyptian prefix.

Wilderness of Etham - i. e., that part of the great wilderness of Shur which adjoined Etham; compare Exodus 15:22 note.

The list of stations up to that at Sinai agrees with the narrative of Exodus except that we have here mentioned Numbers 33:10 an encampment by the Red Sea, and two others, Dophkah and Alush Numbers 33:12-14, which are there omitted. On these places see Exodus 17:1 note.

Numbers 33:16, Numbers 33:17

See the Numbers 11:35 note.

Numbers 33:18

Rithmah - The name of this station is derived from retem, the broom-plant, the "juniper" of the King James Version. This must be the same encampment as that which is said in Numbers 13:26 to have been at Kadesh.

Numbers 33:19

Rimmon-parez - Or rather Rimmon-perez, i. e., "Rimmon (i. e., the Pomegranate) of the Breach." It may have been here that the sedition of Korah occurred.

Verse 19-36

The stations named are those visited during the years of penal wandering. The determination of their positions is, in many cases, difficult, because during this period there was no definite line of march pursued. But it is probable that the Israelites during this period did not overstep the boundaries of the wilderness of Paran (as defined in Numbers 10:12), except to pass along the adjoining valley of the Arabah; while the tabernacle and organized camp moved about from place to place among them (compare Numbers 20:1).

Rissah, Haradah, and Tahath are probably the same as Rasa, Aradeh, and Elthi of the Roman tables. The position of Hashmonah (Heshmon in Joshua 15:27) in the Azazimeh mountains points out the road followed by the children of Israel to be that which skirts the southwestern extremity of Jebel Magrah.

Numbers 33:34

Ebronah - i. e, "passage." This station apparently lay on the shore of the Elanitic gulf, at a point where the ebb of the tide left a ford across. Hence, the later Targum renders the word as "fords."

Numbers 33:35

Ezion-gaber - " Giant' s backbone." The Wady Ghadhyan, a valley running eastward into the Arabah some miles north of the present head of the Elanitic gulf. A salt marsh which here overspreads a portion of the Arabah may be taken as indicating the limit to which the sea anciently reached; and we may thus infer the existence here in former times of an extensive tidal haven, at the head of which the city of Ezion-geber stood. Here it was that from the time of Solomon onward the Jewish navy was constructed I Kings 9:26; I Kings 22:49.

Numbers 33:41-49

Zalmonah and Punon are stations on the Pilgrim' s road; and the general route is fairly ascertained by a comparison of these verses with Numbers 21:4, etc.


 
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