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Nu 33:1	Strong Concordance	These are the journeys [04550] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478], which went forth [03318] out of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714] with their armies [06635] under the hand [03027] of Moses [04872] and Aaron [0175].
	King James	These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
TWO AND FORTY JOURNEYS OF THE ISRAELITES--FROM EGYPT TO SINAI. (Num 33:1-15) These are the journeys of the children of Israel--This chapter may be said to form the winding up of the history of the travels of the Israelites through the wilderness; for the three following chapters relate to matters connected with the occupation and division of the promised land. As several apparent discrepancies will be discovered on comparing the records here given of the journeyings from Sinai with the detailed accounts of the events narrated in the Book of Exodus and the occasional notices of places that are found in that of Deuteronomy, it is probable that this itinerary comprises a list of only the most important stations in their journeys--those where they formed prolonged encampments, and whence they dispersed their flocks and herds to pasture on the adjacent plains till the surrounding herbage was exhausted. The catalogue extends from their departure out of Egypt to their arrival on the plains of Moab. went forth . . . with their armies--that is, a vast multitude marshalled in separate companies, but regular order.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

TWO AND FORTY JOURNEYS OF THE ISRAELITES--FROM EGYPT TO SINAI. (Num 33:1-15)

These are the journeys of the children of Israel--This chapter may be said to form the winding up of the history of the travels of the Israelites through the wilderness; for the three following chapters relate to matters connected with the occupation and division of the promised land. As several apparent discrepancies will be discovered on comparing the records here given of the journeyings from Sinai with the detailed accounts of the events narrated in the Book of Exodus and the occasional notices of places that are found in that of Deuteronomy, it is probable that this itinerary comprises a list of only the most important stations in their journeys--those where they formed prolonged encampments, and whence they dispersed their flocks and herds to pasture on the adjacent plains till the surrounding herbage was exhausted. The catalogue extends from their departure out of Egypt to their arrival on the plains of Moab.

went forth . . . with their armies--that is, a vast multitude marshalled in separate companies, but regular order.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
This list was written out by Moses at God's command Num 33:2, doubtless as a memorial of God's providential care for His people throughout this long and trying period. Num 33:3-6. For these places, see the marginal reference. Num 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 Exo 15:22 note. The list of stations up to that at Sinai agrees with the narrative of Exodus except that we have here mentioned Num 33:10 an encampment by the Red Sea, and two others, Dophkah and Alush Num 33:12-14, which are there omitted. On these places see Exo 17:1 note. Num 33:16, Num 33:17 See the Num 11:35 note. Num 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 Num 13:26 to have been at Kadesh. Num 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 Num 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 Num 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 Jos 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. Num 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." Num 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 Kg1 9:26; Kg1 22:49. Num 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 Num 21:4, etc.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
As the Israelites had ended their wanderings through the desert, when they arrived in the steppes of Moab by the Jordan opposite to Jericho (Num 22:1), and as they began to take possession when the conquered land beyond Jordan was portioned out (ch. 32), the history of the desert wandering closes with a list of the stations which they had left behind them. This list was written out by Moses "at the command of Jehovah" (Num 33:2), as a permanent memorial for after ages, as every station which Israel left behind on the journey from Egypt to Canaan "through the great and terrible desert," was a memorial of the grace and faithfulness with which the Lord led His people safely "in the desert land and in the waste howling wilderness, and kept him as the apple of His eye, as an eagle fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings" (Exo 19:4; Deu 32:10.). Num 33:1-15 The first and second verses form the heading: "These are the marches of the children of Israel, which they marched out," i.e., the marches which they made from one place to another, on going out of Egypt. מסּע does not mean a station, but the breaking up of a camp, and then a train, or march (see at Exo 12:37, and Gen 13:3). לצבאתם (see Exo 7:4). בּיד, under the guidance, as in Num 4:28, and Exo 38:21. למסעיהם מוצאיהם, "their goings out (properly, their places of departure) according to their marches," is really equivalent to the clause which follows: "their marches according to their places of departure." The march of the people is not described by the stations, or places of encampment, but by the particular spots from which they set out. Hence the constant repetition of the word ויּסעוּ, "and they broke up." In Num 33:3-5, the departure is described according to Exo 12:17, Exo 12:37-41. On the judgments of Jehovah upon the gods of Egypt, see at Exo 12:12. "With an high hand:" as in Exo 14:8. - The places of encampment from Succoth to the desert of Sinai (Num 33:5-15) agree with those in the historical account, except that the stations at the Red Sea (Num 33:10) and those at Dophkah and Alush (Num 33:13 and Num 33:14) are passed over there. For Raemses, see at Exo 12:37. Succoth and Etham (Exo 13:20). Pihahiroth (Exo 14:2). "The wilderness" (Num 33:8) is the desert of Shur, according to Exo 15:22. Marah, see Exo 15:23. Elim (Exo 15:27). For the Red Sea and the wilderness of Sin, see Exo 16:1. For Dophkah, Alush, and Rephidim, see Exo 17:1; and for the wilderness of Sinai, Exo 19:2. Numbers 33:16-35 In vv. 16-36 there follow twenty-one names of places where the Israelites encamped from the time that they left the wilderness of Sinai till they encamped in the wilderness of Zin, i.e., Kadesh. The description of the latter as "the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh," which agrees almost word for word with Num 20:1, and still more the agreement of the places mentioned in Num 33:37-49, as the encampments of Israel after leaving Kadesh till their arrival in the steppes of Moab, with the march of the people in the fortieth year as described in Num 20:22-22:1, put it beyond all doubt that the encampment in the wilderness of Zin, i.e., Kadesh (Num 33:36), is to be understood as referring to the second arrival in Kadesh after the expiration of the thirty-eight years of wandering in the desert to which the congregation had been condemned. Consequently the twenty-one names in vv. 16-36 contain not only the places of encampment at which the Israelites encamped in the second year of their march from Sinai to the desert of Paran at Kadesh, whence the spies were despatched into Canaan, but also those in which they encamped for a longer period during the thirty-eight years of punishment in the wilderness. This view is still further confirmed by the fact that the two first of the stations named after the departure from the wilderness of Sinai, viz., Kibroth-hattaavah and Hazeroth, agree with those named in the historical account in Num 11:34 and Num 11:35. Now if, according to Num 12:16, when the people left Hazeroth, they encamped in the desert of Paran, and despatched the spies thence out of the desert of Zin (Num 13:21), who returned to the congregation after forty days "into the desert of Paran to Kadesh" (Num 13:26), it is as natural as it well can be to seek for this place of encampment in the desert of Paran or Zin at Kadesh under the name of Rithmah, which follows Hazeroth in the present list (Num 33:18). This natural supposition reaches the highest degree of probability, from the fact that, in the historical account, the place of encampment, from which the sending out of the spies took place, is described in so indefinite a manner as the "desert of Paran," since this name does not belong to a small desert, just capable of holding the camp of the Israelites, but embraces the whole of the large desert plateau which stretches from the central mountains of Horeb in the south to the mountains of the Amorites, which really form part of Canaan, and contains no less than 400 (? 10,000 English) square miles. In this desert the Israelites could only pitch their camp in one particular spot, which is called Rithmah in the list before us; whereas in the historical account the passage is described, according to what the Israelites performed and experienced in this encampment, as near to the southern border of Canaan, and is thus pointed out with sufficient clearness for the purpose of the historical account. To this we may add the coincidence of the name Rithmah with the Wady Abu Retemat, which is not very far to the south of Kadesh, "a wide plain with shrubs and retem," i.e., broom (Robinson, i. p. 279), in the neighbourhood of which, and behind the chalk formation which bounds it towards the east, there is a copious spring of sweet water called Ain el Kudeirt. This spot was well adapted for a place of encampment for Israel, which was so numerous that it might easily stretch into the desert of Zin, and as far as Kadesh. The seventeen places of encampment, therefore, that are mentioned in vv. 19-36 between Rithmah and Kadesh, are the places at which Israel set up in the desert, from their return from Kadesh into the "desert of the way to the Red Sea" (Num 14:25), till the reassembling of the whole congregation in the desert of Zin at Kadesh (Num 20:1). (Note: The different hypotheses for reducing the journey of the Israelites to a few years, have been refuted by Kurtz (iii. 41) in the most conclusive manner possible, and in some respects more elaborately than was actually necessary. Nevertheless Knobel has made a fresh attempt, in the interest of his fragmentary hypothesis, to explain the twenty-one places of encampment given in vv. 16-37 as twenty-one marches made by Israel from Sinai till their first arrival at Kadesh. As the whole distance from Sinai to Kadesh by the straight road through the desert consists of only an eleven days' journey, Knobel endeavours to bring his twenty-one marches into harmony with this statement, by reckoning only five hours to each march, and postulating a few detours in addition, in which the people occupied about a hundred hours or more. The objection which might be raised to this, namely, that the Israelites made much longer marches than these on their way from Egypt to Sinai, he tries to set aside by supposing that the Israelites left their flocks behind them in Egypt, and procured fresh ones from the Bedouins at Sinai. But this assertion is so arbitrary and baseless an idea, that it is not worth while to waste a single word upon the subject (see Exo 12:38). The reduction of the places of encampment to simple marches is proved to be at variance with the text by the express statement in Num 10:33, that when the Israelites left the wilderness of Sinai they went a three days' journey, until the cloud showed them a resting-place. For it is perfectly evydent from this, that the march from one place to another cannot be understood without further ground as being simply a day's march of five hours.) Of all the seventeen places not a single one is known, or can be pointed out with certainty, except Eziongeber. Only the four mentioned in Num 33:30-33, Moseroth, Bene-Jaakan, Hor-hagidgad, and Jotbathah, are referred to again, viz., in Deu 10:6-7, where Moses refers to the divine protection enjoyed by the Israelites in their wandering in the desert, in these words: "And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth-bene-Jaakan to Mosera; there Aaron died, and there he was buried.... From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of water-brooks." Of the identity of the places mentioned in the two passages there can be no doubt whatever. Bene Jaakan is simply an abbreviation of Beeroth-bene-Jaakan, wells of the children of Jaakan. Now if the children of Jaakan were the same as the Horite family of Kanan mentioned in Gen 36:27, - and the reading יעקן for ועקן in Ch1 1:42 seems to favour this-the wells of Jaakan would have to be sought for on the mountains that bound the Arabah on either the east or west. Gudgodah is only a slightly altered and abbreviated form of Hor-hagidgad, the cave of Gidgad or Gudgodah; and lastly, Moseroth is simply the plural form of Mosera. But notwithstanding the identity of these four places, the two passages relate to different journeys. Deu 10:6 and Deu 10:7 refers to the march in the fortieth year, when the Israelites went from Kadesh through the Wady Murreh into the Arabah to Mount Hor, and encamped in the Arabah first of all at the wells of the children, and then at Mosera, where Aaron died upon Mount Hor, which was in the neighbourhood, and whence they travelled still farther southwards to Gudgodah and Jotbathah. In the historical account in Num 20 and 21 the three places of encampment, Bene-Jaakan, Gudgodah, and Jotbathah, are not mentioned, because nothing worthy of note occurred there. Gudgodah was perhaps the place of encampment mentioned in Num 21:4, the name of which is not given, where the people were punished with fiery serpents; and Jotbathah is probably to be placed before Zalmonah (Num 33:41). The clause, "a land of water-brooks" (Deu 10:7), points to a spot in or near the southern part of the Arabah, where some wady, or valley with a stream flowing through it, opened into the Arabah from either the eastern or western mountains, and formed a green oasis through its copious supply of water in the midst of the arid steppe. But the Israelites had encamped at the very same places once before, namely, during their thirty-seven years of wandering, in which the people, after returning from Kadesh to the Red Sea through the centre of the great desert of et Tih, after wandering about for some time in the broad desert plateau, went through the Wady el Jerafeh into the Arabah as far as the eastern border of it on the slopes of Mount Hor, and there encamped at Mosera (Moseroth) somewhere near Ain et Taiyibeh (on Robinson's map), and then crossed over to Bene-Jaakan, which was probably on the western border of the Arabah, somewhere near Ain el Ghamr (Robinson), and then turning southwards passed along the Wady el Jeib by Hor-gidgad (Gudgodah), Jotbathah, and Abronah to Eziongeber on the Red Sea; for there can be no doubt whatever that the Eziongeber in Num 33:35, Num 33:36, and that in Deu 2:8, are one and the same town, viz., the well-known port at the northern extremity of the Elanitic Gulf, where the Israelites in the time of Solomon and Jehoshaphat built a fleet to sail to Ophir (Kg1 9:26; Kg1 22:49). It was not far from Elath (i.e., Akaba), and is supposed to have been "the large and beautiful town of Asziun," which formerly stood, according to Makrizi, near to Aila, where there were many dates, fields, and fruit-trees, though it has now long since entirely disappeared. Consequently the Israelites passed twice through a portion of the Arabah in a southerly direction towards the Red Sea, the second time from Wady Murreh by Mount Hor, to go round the land of Edom, not quite to the head of the gulf, but only to the Wady el Ithm, through which they crossed to the eastern side of Edomitis; the first time during the thirty-seven years of wandering from Wady el Jerafeh to Moseroth and Bene Jaakan, and thence to Eziongeber. Num 33:36 "And they removed from Eziongeber, and encamped in the desert of Zin, that is Kadesh:" the return to Kadesh towards the end of the thirty-ninth year is referred to here. The fact that no places of encampment are given between Eziongeber and Kadesh, is not to be attributed to the "plan of the author, to avoid mentioning the same places of encampment a second time," for any such plan is a mere conjecture; but it may be simply and perfectly explained from the fact, that on this return route-which the whole of the people, with their wives, children, and flocks, could accomplish without any very great exertion in ten or fourteen days, as the distance from Aila to Kadesh through the desert of Paran is only about a forty hours' journey upon camels, and Robinson travelled from Akabah to the Wady Retemath, near Kadesh, in four days and a half-no formal camp was pitched at all, probably because the time of penal wandering came to an end at Eziongeber, and the time had arrived when the congregation was to assemble again at Kadesh, and set out thence upon its journey to Canaan. - Hence the eleven names given in Num 33:19-30, between Rithmah and Moseroth, can only refer to those stations at which the congregation pitched their camp for a longer or shorter period during the thirty-seven years of punishment, on their slow return from Kadesh to the Red Sea, and previous to their entering the Arabah and encamping at Moseroth. This number of stations, which is very small for thirty-seven years (only seventeen from Rithmah or Kadesh to Eziongeber), is a sufficient proof that the congregation of Israel was not constantly wandering about during the whole of that time, but may have remained in many of the places of encampment, probably those which furnished an abundant supply of water and pasturage, not only for weeks and months, but even for years, the people scattering themselves in all directions round about the place where the tabernacle was set up, and making use of such means of support as the desert afforded, and assembling together again when this was all gone, for the purpose of travelling farther and seeking somewhere else a suitable spot for a fresh encampment. Moreover, the words of Deu 1:46, "ye abode in Kadesh many days," when compared with Num 2:1, "then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness of the way to the Red Sea," show most distinctly, that after the sentence passed upon the people in Kadesh (Num 14), they did not begin to travel back at once, but remained for a considerable time in Kadesh before going southwards into the desert. With regard to the direction which they took, all that can be said, so long as none of the places of encampment mentioned in Num 33:19-29 are discovered, is that they made their way by a very circuitous route, and with many a wide detour, to Eziongeber, on the Red Sea. (Note: We agree so far, therefore, with the vie adopted by Fries, and followed by Kurtz (History of Old Covenant, iii. 306-7) and Schultz (Deut. pp. 153-4), that we regard the stations given in vv. 19-35, between Rithmah and Eziongeber, as referring to the journeys of Israel, after its condemnation in Kadesh, during the thirty-seven years of its wandering about in the desert. But we do not regard the view which these writers have formed of the marches themselves as being well founded, or in accordance with the text, - namely, that the people of Israel did not really come a second time in full procession from the south to Kadesh, but that they had never left Kadesh entirely, inasmuch as then the nation was rejected in Kadesh, the people divided themselves into larger and smaller groups, and that portion which was estranged from Moses, or rather from the Lord, remained in Kadesh even after the rest were scattered about; so that, in a certain sense, Kadesh formed the standing encampment and meeting-place of the congregation even during the thirty-seven years. According to this view, the removals and encampments mentioned in vv. 9-36 do not describe the marches of the whole nation, but are to be understood as the circuit made by the headquarters during the thirty-seven years, with Moses at the head and the sanctuary in the midst (Kurtz), or else as showing "that Moses and Aaron, with the sanctuary and the tribe of Levi, altered their resting-place, say from year to year, thus securing to every part of the nation in turn the nearness of the sanctuary, in accordance with the signals appointed by God (Num 10:11-12), and thus passed over the space between Kadesh and Eziongeber within the first eighteen years, and then, by a similar change of place, gradually drew near to Kadesh during the remaining eighteen or nineteen years, and at length in the last year summoned the whole nation (all the congregation) to assemble together at this meeting-place." Now we cannot admit that in this view "we find all the different and scattered statements of the Pentateuch explained and rendered intelligible." In the first place, it does not do justice even to the list of stations; for if the constantly repeated expression, "and they (the children of Israel, Num 33:1) removed...and encamped," denotes the removal and encamping of the whole congregation in vv. 3-18 and Num 33:37-49, it is certainly at variance with the text to explain the same words in vv. 19-36 as signifying the removal and encamping of the headquarters only, or of Moses, with Aaron and the Levites, and the tabernacle. Again, in all the laws that were given and the events that are described as occurring between the first halt of the congregation in Kadesh (Num 13 and 14) and their return thither at the commencement of the fortieth year (Num 20), the presence of the whole congregation is taken for granted. The sacrificial laws in Num 15, which Moses was to address to the children of Israel (Num 15:1), were given to "the whole congregation" (cf. Num 33:24, Num 33:25, Num 33:26). The man who gathered wood on the Sabbath was taken out of the camp and stoned by "all the congregation" (Num 15:36). "All the congregation" took part in the rebellion of the company of Korah (Num 16:19; Num 17:6, Num 18:8.). It is true this occurrence is supposed by Kurtz to have taken place "during the halt in Kadesh," but the reasons given are by no means conclusive (p. 105). Besides, if we assign everything that is related in Num 15-19 to the time when the whole congregation abode in Kadesh, this deprives the hypothesis of its chief support in Deu 1:46, "and ye abode in Kadesh a long time, according to the days that he abode." For in that case the long abode in Kadesh would include the period of the laws and incidents recorded in Num 15-19, and yet, after all, "the whole congregation" went away. In no case, in fact, can the words be understood as signifying that a portion of the nation remained there during the thirty-seven years. Nor can this be inferred in any way from the fact that their departure is not expressly mentioned; for, at all events, the statement in Num 20:1, "and the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the desert of Zin," presupposes that they had gone away. And the "inconceivable idea, that in the last year of their wanderings, when it was their express intention to cross the Jordan and enter Canaan from the east, they should have gone up from Eziongeber to the southern boundary of Canaan, which they had left thirty-seven years before, merely to come back again to the neighbourhood of Eziongeber, after failing in their negotiations with the king of Edom, which they might have carried on from some place much farther south, and to take the road from that point to the country on the east of the Jordan after all" (Fries), loses all the surprising character which it apparently has, if we only give up the assumption upon which it is founded, but which has no support whatever in the biblical history, viz., that during the thirty-seven years of their wandering in the desert, Moses was acquainted with the fact that the Israelites were to enter Canaan from the east, or at any rate that he had formed this plan for some time. If, on the contrary, when the Lord rejected the murmuring nation (Num 14:26), He decided nothing with reference to the way by which the generation that would grow up in the desert was to enter Canaan, - and it was not till after the return to Kadesh that Moses was informed by God that they were to advance into Canaan from the east and not from the south, - it was perfectly natural that when the time of punishment had expired, the Israelites should assemble in Kadesh again, and start from that point upon their journey onward.) Num 33:37-49 The places of encampment on the journey of the fortieth year from Kadesh to Mount Hor, and round Edom and Moab into the steppes of Moab, have been discussed at Num 20 and 21. On Mount Hor, and Aaron's death there, see at Num 20:22. For the remark in Num 33:40 concerning the Canaanites of Arad, see at Num 21:1. On Zalmonah, Phunon, and Oboth, see at Num 21:10; on Ijje Abarim, at Num 21:11; on Dibon Gad, Almon Diblathaim, and the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo, Num 21:16-20. On Arboth Moab, see Num 22:1.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

As the Israelites had ended their wanderings through the desert, when they arrived in the steppes of Moab by the Jordan opposite to Jericho (Num 22:1), and as they began to take possession when the conquered land beyond Jordan was portioned out (ch. 32), the history of the desert wandering closes with a list of the stations which they had left behind them. This list was written out by Moses "at the command of Jehovah" (Num 33:2), as a permanent memorial for after ages, as every station which Israel left behind on the journey from Egypt to Canaan "through the great and terrible desert," was a memorial of the grace and faithfulness with which the Lord led His people safely "in the desert land and in the waste howling wilderness, and kept him as the apple of His eye, as an eagle fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings" (Exo 19:4; Deu 32:10.).

Num 33:1-15

The first and second verses form the heading: "These are the marches of the children of Israel, which they marched out," i.e., the marches which they made from one place to another, on going out of Egypt. מסּע does not mean a station, but the breaking up of a camp, and then a train, or march (see at Exo 12:37, and Gen 13:3). לצבאתם (see Exo 7:4). בּיד, under the guidance, as in Num 4:28, and Exo 38:21. למסעיהם מוצאיהם, "their goings out (properly, their places of departure) according to their marches," is really equivalent to the clause which follows: "their marches according to their places of departure." The march of the people is not described by the stations, or places of encampment, but by the particular spots from which they set out. Hence the constant repetition of the word ויּסעוּ, "and they broke up." In Num 33:3-5, the departure is described according to Exo 12:17, Exo 12:37-41. On the judgments of Jehovah upon the gods of Egypt, see at Exo 12:12. "With an high hand:" as in Exo 14:8. - The places of encampment from Succoth to the desert of Sinai (Num 33:5-15) agree with those in the historical account, except that the stations at the Red Sea (Num 33:10) and those at Dophkah and Alush (Num 33:13 and Num 33:14) are passed over there. For Raemses, see at Exo 12:37. Succoth and Etham (Exo 13:20). Pihahiroth (Exo 14:2). "The wilderness" (Num 33:8) is the desert of Shur, according to Exo 15:22. Marah, see Exo 15:23. Elim (Exo 15:27). For the Red Sea and the wilderness of Sin, see Exo 16:1. For Dophkah, Alush, and Rephidim, see Exo 17:1; and for the wilderness of Sinai, Exo 19:2.

Numbers 33:16-35

In vv. 16-36 there follow twenty-one names of places where the Israelites encamped from the time that they left the wilderness of Sinai till they encamped in the wilderness of Zin, i.e., Kadesh. The description of the latter as "the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh," which agrees almost word for word with Num 20:1, and still more the agreement of the places mentioned in Num 33:37-49, as the encampments of Israel after leaving Kadesh till their arrival in the steppes of Moab, with the march of the people in the fortieth year as described in Num 20:22-22:1, put it beyond all doubt that the encampment in the wilderness of Zin, i.e., Kadesh (Num 33:36), is to be understood as referring to the second arrival in Kadesh after the expiration of the thirty-eight years of wandering in the desert to which the congregation had been condemned. Consequently the twenty-one names in vv. 16-36 contain not only the places of encampment at which the Israelites encamped in the second year of their march from Sinai to the desert of Paran at Kadesh, whence the spies were despatched into Canaan, but also those in which they encamped for a longer period during the thirty-eight years of punishment in the wilderness. This view is still further confirmed by the fact that the two first of the stations named after the departure from the wilderness of Sinai, viz., Kibroth-hattaavah and Hazeroth, agree with those named in the historical account in Num 11:34 and Num 11:35. Now if, according to Num 12:16, when the people left Hazeroth, they encamped in the desert of Paran, and despatched the spies thence out of the desert of Zin (Num 13:21), who returned to the congregation after forty days "into the desert of Paran to Kadesh" (Num 13:26), it is as natural as it well can be to seek for this place of encampment in the desert of Paran or Zin at Kadesh under the name of Rithmah, which follows Hazeroth in the present list (Num 33:18). This natural supposition reaches the highest degree of probability, from the fact that, in the historical account, the place of encampment, from which the sending out of the spies took place, is described in so indefinite a manner as the "desert of Paran," since this name does not belong to a small desert, just capable of holding the camp of the Israelites, but embraces the whole of the large desert plateau which stretches from the central mountains of Horeb in the south to the mountains of the Amorites, which really form part of Canaan, and contains no less than 400 (? 10,000 English) square miles. In this desert the Israelites could only pitch their camp in one particular spot, which is called Rithmah in the list before us; whereas in the historical account the passage is described, according to what the Israelites performed and experienced in this encampment, as near to the southern border of Canaan, and is thus pointed out with sufficient clearness for the purpose of the historical account. To this we may add the coincidence of the name Rithmah with the Wady Abu Retemat, which is not very far to the south of Kadesh, "a wide plain with shrubs and retem," i.e., broom (Robinson, i. p. 279), in the neighbourhood of which, and behind the chalk formation which bounds it towards the east, there is a copious spring of sweet water called Ain el Kudeirt. This spot was well adapted for a place of encampment for Israel, which was so numerous that it might easily stretch into the desert of Zin, and as far as Kadesh.

The seventeen places of encampment, therefore, that are mentioned in vv. 19-36 between Rithmah and Kadesh, are the places at which Israel set up in the desert, from their return from Kadesh into the "desert of the way to the Red Sea" (Num 14:25), till the reassembling of the whole congregation in the desert of Zin at Kadesh (Num 20:1).

(Note: The different hypotheses for reducing the journey of the Israelites to a few years, have been refuted by Kurtz (iii. 41) in the most conclusive manner possible, and in some respects more elaborately than was actually necessary. Nevertheless Knobel has made a fresh attempt, in the interest of his fragmentary hypothesis, to explain the twenty-one places of encampment given in vv. 16-37 as twenty-one marches made by Israel from Sinai till their first arrival at Kadesh. As the whole distance from Sinai to Kadesh by the straight road through the desert consists of only an eleven days' journey, Knobel endeavours to bring his twenty-one marches into harmony with this statement, by reckoning only five hours to each march, and postulating a few detours in addition, in which the people occupied about a hundred hours or more. The objection which might be raised to this, namely, that the Israelites made much longer marches than these on their way from Egypt to Sinai, he tries to set aside by supposing that the Israelites left their flocks behind them in Egypt, and procured fresh ones from the Bedouins at Sinai. But this assertion is so arbitrary and baseless an idea, that it is not worth while to waste a single word upon the subject (see Exo 12:38). The reduction of the places of encampment to simple marches is proved to be at variance with the text by the express statement in Num 10:33, that when the Israelites left the wilderness of Sinai they went a three days' journey, until the cloud showed them a resting-place. For it is perfectly evydent from this, that the march from one place to another cannot be understood without further ground as being simply a day's march of five hours.)

Of all the seventeen places not a single one is known, or can be pointed out with certainty, except Eziongeber. Only the four mentioned in Num 33:30-33, Moseroth, Bene-Jaakan, Hor-hagidgad, and Jotbathah, are referred to again, viz., in Deu 10:6-7, where Moses refers to the divine protection enjoyed by the Israelites in their wandering in the desert, in these words: "And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth-bene-Jaakan to Mosera; there Aaron died, and there he was buried.... From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of water-brooks." Of the identity of the places mentioned in the two passages there can be no doubt whatever. Bene Jaakan is simply an abbreviation of Beeroth-bene-Jaakan, wells of the children of Jaakan. Now if the children of Jaakan were the same as the Horite family of Kanan mentioned in Gen 36:27, - and the reading יעקן for ועקן in Ch1 1:42 seems to favour this-the wells of Jaakan would have to be sought for on the mountains that bound the Arabah on either the east or west.

Gudgodah is only a slightly altered and abbreviated form of Hor-hagidgad, the cave of Gidgad or Gudgodah; and lastly, Moseroth is simply the plural form of Mosera. But notwithstanding the identity of these four places, the two passages relate to different journeys. Deu 10:6 and Deu 10:7 refers to the march in the fortieth year, when the Israelites went from Kadesh through the Wady Murreh into the Arabah to Mount Hor, and encamped in the Arabah first of all at the wells of the children, and then at Mosera, where Aaron died upon Mount Hor, which was in the neighbourhood, and whence they travelled still farther southwards to Gudgodah and Jotbathah. In the historical account in Num 20 and 21 the three places of encampment, Bene-Jaakan, Gudgodah, and Jotbathah, are not mentioned, because nothing worthy of note occurred there. Gudgodah was perhaps the place of encampment mentioned in Num 21:4, the name of which is not given, where the people were punished with fiery serpents; and Jotbathah is probably to be placed before Zalmonah (Num 33:41). The clause, "a land of water-brooks" (Deu 10:7), points to a spot in or near the southern part of the Arabah, where some wady, or valley with a stream flowing through it, opened into the Arabah from either the eastern or western mountains, and formed a green oasis through its copious supply of water in the midst of the arid steppe. But the Israelites had encamped at the very same places once before, namely, during their thirty-seven years of wandering, in which the people, after returning from Kadesh to the Red Sea through the centre of the great desert of et Tih, after wandering about for some time in the broad desert plateau, went through the Wady el Jerafeh into the Arabah as far as the eastern border of it on the slopes of Mount Hor, and there encamped at Mosera (Moseroth) somewhere near Ain et Taiyibeh (on Robinson's map), and then crossed over to Bene-Jaakan, which was probably on the western border of the Arabah, somewhere near Ain el Ghamr (Robinson), and then turning southwards passed along the Wady el Jeib by Hor-gidgad (Gudgodah), Jotbathah, and Abronah to Eziongeber on the Red Sea; for there can be no doubt whatever that the Eziongeber in Num 33:35, Num 33:36, and that in Deu 2:8, are one and the same town, viz., the well-known port at the northern extremity of the Elanitic Gulf, where the Israelites in the time of Solomon and Jehoshaphat built a fleet to sail to Ophir (Kg1 9:26; Kg1 22:49). It was not far from Elath (i.e., Akaba), and is supposed to have been "the large and beautiful town of Asziun," which formerly stood, according to Makrizi, near to Aila, where there were many dates, fields, and fruit-trees, though it has now long since entirely disappeared.

Consequently the Israelites passed twice through a portion of the Arabah in a southerly direction towards the Red Sea, the second time from Wady Murreh by Mount Hor, to go round the land of Edom, not quite to the head of the gulf, but only to the Wady el Ithm, through which they crossed to the eastern side of Edomitis; the first time during the thirty-seven years of wandering from Wady el Jerafeh to Moseroth and Bene Jaakan, and thence to Eziongeber.

Num 33:36

"And they removed from Eziongeber, and encamped in the desert of Zin, that is Kadesh:" the return to Kadesh towards the end of the thirty-ninth year is referred to here. The fact that no places of encampment are given between Eziongeber and Kadesh, is not to be attributed to the "plan of the author, to avoid mentioning the same places of encampment a second time," for any such plan is a mere conjecture; but it may be simply and perfectly explained from the fact, that on this return route-which the whole of the people, with their wives, children, and flocks, could accomplish without any very great exertion in ten or fourteen days, as the distance from Aila to Kadesh through the desert of Paran is only about a forty hours' journey upon camels, and Robinson travelled from Akabah to the Wady Retemath, near Kadesh, in four days and a half-no formal camp was pitched at all, probably because the time of penal wandering came to an end at Eziongeber, and the time had arrived when the congregation was to assemble again at Kadesh, and set out thence upon its journey to Canaan. - Hence the eleven names given in Num 33:19-30, between Rithmah and Moseroth, can only refer to those stations at which the congregation pitched their camp for a longer or shorter period during the thirty-seven years of punishment, on their slow return from Kadesh to the Red Sea, and previous to their entering the Arabah and encamping at Moseroth.

This number of stations, which is very small for thirty-seven years (only seventeen from Rithmah or Kadesh to Eziongeber), is a sufficient proof that the congregation of Israel was not constantly wandering about during the whole of that time, but may have remained in many of the places of encampment, probably those which furnished an abundant supply of water and pasturage, not only for weeks and months, but even for years, the people scattering themselves in all directions round about the place where the tabernacle was set up, and making use of such means of support as the desert afforded, and assembling together again when this was all gone, for the purpose of travelling farther and seeking somewhere else a suitable spot for a fresh encampment. Moreover, the words of Deu 1:46, "ye abode in Kadesh many days," when compared with Num 2:1, "then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness of the way to the Red Sea," show most distinctly, that after the sentence passed upon the people in Kadesh (Num 14), they did not begin to travel back at once, but remained for a considerable time in Kadesh before going southwards into the desert.

With regard to the direction which they took, all that can be said, so long as none of the places of encampment mentioned in Num 33:19-29 are discovered, is that they made their way by a very circuitous route, and with many a wide detour, to Eziongeber, on the Red Sea.

(Note: We agree so far, therefore, with the vie adopted by Fries, and followed by Kurtz (History of Old Covenant, iii. 306-7) and Schultz (Deut. pp. 153-4), that we regard the stations given in vv. 19-35, between Rithmah and Eziongeber, as referring to the journeys of Israel, after its condemnation in Kadesh, during the thirty-seven years of its wandering about in the desert. But we do not regard the view which these writers have formed of the marches themselves as being well founded, or in accordance with the text, - namely, that the people of Israel did not really come a second time in full procession from the south to Kadesh, but that they had never left Kadesh entirely, inasmuch as then the nation was rejected in Kadesh, the people divided themselves into larger and smaller groups, and that portion which was estranged from Moses, or rather from the Lord, remained in Kadesh even after the rest were scattered about; so that, in a certain sense, Kadesh formed the standing encampment and meeting-place of the congregation even during the thirty-seven years. According to this view, the removals and encampments mentioned in vv. 9-36 do not describe the marches of the whole nation, but are to be understood as the circuit made by the headquarters during the thirty-seven years, with Moses at the head and the sanctuary in the midst (Kurtz), or else as showing "that Moses and Aaron, with the sanctuary and the tribe of Levi, altered their resting-place, say from year to year, thus securing to every part of the nation in turn the nearness of the sanctuary, in accordance with the signals appointed by God (Num 10:11-12), and thus passed over the space between Kadesh and Eziongeber within the first eighteen years, and then, by a similar change of place, gradually drew near to Kadesh during the remaining eighteen or nineteen years, and at length in the last year summoned the whole nation (all the congregation) to assemble together at this meeting-place." Now we cannot admit that in this view "we find all the different and scattered statements of the Pentateuch explained and rendered intelligible." In the first place, it does not do justice even to the list of stations; for if the constantly repeated expression, "and they (the children of Israel, Num 33:1) removed...and encamped," denotes the removal and encamping of the whole congregation in vv. 3-18 and Num 33:37-49, it is certainly at variance with the text to explain the same words in vv. 19-36 as signifying the removal and encamping of the headquarters only, or of Moses, with Aaron and the Levites, and the tabernacle. Again, in all the laws that were given and the events that are described as occurring between the first halt of the congregation in Kadesh (Num 13 and 14) and their return thither at the commencement of the fortieth year (Num 20), the presence of the whole congregation is taken for granted. The sacrificial laws in Num 15, which Moses was to address to the children of Israel (Num 15:1), were given to "the whole congregation" (cf. Num 33:24, Num 33:25, Num 33:26). The man who gathered wood on the Sabbath was taken out of the camp and stoned by "all the congregation" (Num 15:36). "All the congregation" took part in the rebellion of the company of Korah (Num 16:19; Num 17:6, Num 18:8.). It is true this occurrence is supposed by Kurtz to have taken place "during the halt in Kadesh," but the reasons given are by no means conclusive (p. 105). Besides, if we assign everything that is related in Num 15-19 to the time when the whole congregation abode in Kadesh, this deprives the hypothesis of its chief support in Deu 1:46, "and ye abode in Kadesh a long time, according to the days that he abode." For in that case the long abode in Kadesh would include the period of the laws and incidents recorded in Num 15-19, and yet, after all, "the whole congregation" went away. In no case, in fact, can the words be understood as signifying that a portion of the nation remained there during the thirty-seven years. Nor can this be inferred in any way from the fact that their departure is not expressly mentioned; for, at all events, the statement in Num 20:1, "and the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the desert of Zin," presupposes that they had gone away. And the "inconceivable idea, that in the last year of their wanderings, when it was their express intention to cross the Jordan and enter Canaan from the east, they should have gone up from Eziongeber to the southern boundary of Canaan, which they had left thirty-seven years before, merely to come back again to the neighbourhood of Eziongeber, after failing in their negotiations with the king of Edom, which they might have carried on from some place much farther south, and to take the road from that point to the country on the east of the Jordan after all" (Fries), loses all the surprising character which it apparently has, if we only give up the assumption upon which it is founded, but which has no support whatever in the biblical history, viz., that during the thirty-seven years of their wandering in the desert, Moses was acquainted with the fact that the Israelites were to enter Canaan from the east, or at any rate that he had formed this plan for some time. If, on the contrary, when the Lord rejected the murmuring nation (Num 14:26), He decided nothing with reference to the way by which the generation that would grow up in the desert was to enter Canaan, - and it was not till after the return to Kadesh that Moses was informed by God that they were to advance into Canaan from the east and not from the south, - it was perfectly natural that when the time of punishment had expired, the Israelites should assemble in Kadesh again, and start from that point upon their journey onward.)

Num 33:37-49

The places of encampment on the journey of the fortieth year from Kadesh to Mount Hor, and round Edom and Moab into the steppes of Moab, have been discussed at Num 20 and 21. On Mount Hor, and Aaron's death there, see at Num 20:22. For the remark in Num 33:40 concerning the Canaanites of Arad, see at Num 21:1. On Zalmonah, Phunon, and Oboth, see at Num 21:10; on Ijje Abarim, at Num 21:11; on Dibon Gad, Almon Diblathaim, and the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo, Num 21:16-20. On Arboth Moab, see Num 22:1.

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¹ These are the journeys [04550] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478], which went forth [03318] out of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714] with their armies [06635] under the hand [03027] of Moses [04872] and Aaron [0175].
² And Moses [04872] wrote [03789] their goings out [04161] according to their journeys [04550] by the commandment [06310] of the LORD [03068]: and these are their journeys [04550] according to their goings out [04161].
³ And they departed [05265] from Rameses [07486] in the first [07223] month [02320], on the fifteenth [06240] [02568] day [03117] of the first [07223] month [02320]; on the morrow [04283] after the passover [06453] the children [01121] of Israel [03478] went out [03318] with an high [07311] hand [03027] in the sight [05869] of all the Egyptians [04714].
⁴ For the Egyptians [04714] buried [06912] all their firstborn [01060], which the LORD [03068] had smitten [05221] among them: upon their gods [0430] also the LORD [03068] executed [06213] judgments [08201].
⁵ And the children [01121] of Israel [03478] removed [05265] from Rameses [07486], and pitched [02583] in Succoth [05523].
⁶ And they departed [05265] from Succoth [05523], and pitched [02583] in Etham [0864], which is in the edge [07097] of the wilderness [04057].
⁷ And they removed [05265] from Etham [0864], and turned again [07725] unto Pihahiroth [06367], which is before Baalzephon [01189]: and they pitched [02583] before [06440] Migdol [04024].
⁸ And they departed [05265] from before [06440] Pihahiroth [06367], and passed through [05674] the midst [08432] of the sea [03220] into the wilderness [04057], and went [03212] three [07969] days [03117]' journey [01870] in the wilderness [04057] of Etham [0864], and pitched [02583] in Marah [04785].
⁹ And they removed [05265] from Marah [04785], and came [0935] unto Elim [0362]: and in Elim [0362] were twelve [08147] [06240] fountains [05869] of water [04325], and threescore and ten [07657] palm trees [08558]; and they pitched [02583] there.
¹⁰ And they removed [05265] from Elim [0362], and encamped [02583] by the Red [05488] sea [03220].
¹¹ And they removed [05265] from the Red [05488] sea [03220], and encamped [02583] in the wilderness [04057] of Sin [05512].
¹² And they took their journey [05265] out of the wilderness [04057] of Sin [05512], and encamped [02583] in Dophkah [01850].
¹³ And they departed [05265] from Dophkah [01850], and encamped [02583] in Alush [0442].
¹⁴ And they removed [05265] from Alush [0442], and encamped [02583] at Rephidim [07508], where was no water [04325] for the people [05971] to drink [08354].
¹⁵ And they departed [05265] from Rephidim [07508], and pitched [02583] in the wilderness [04057] of Sinai [05514].

⁴ And they journeyed [05265] from mount [02022] Hor [02023] by the way [01870] of the Red [05488] sea [03220], to compass [05437] the land [0776] of Edom [0123]: and the soul [05315] of the people [05971] was much discouraged [07114] because of the way [01870].

⁴¹ And they departed [05265] from mount [02022] Hor [02023], and pitched [02583] in Zalmonah [06758].
⁴² And they departed [05265] from Zalmonah [06758], and pitched [02583] in Punon [06325].
⁴³ And they departed [05265] from Punon [06325], and pitched [02583] in Oboth [088].
⁴⁴ And they departed [05265] from Oboth [088], and pitched [02583] in Ijeabarim [05863], in the border [01366] of Moab [04124].
⁴⁵ And they departed [05265] from Iim [05864], and pitched [02583] in Dibongad [01769].
⁴⁶ And they removed [05265] from Dibongad [01769], and encamped [02583] in Almondiblathaim [05963].
⁴⁷ And they removed [05265] from Almondiblathaim [05963], and pitched [02583] in the mountains [02022] of Abarim [05682], before [06440] Nebo [05015].
⁴⁸ And they departed [05265] from the mountains [02022] of Abarim [05682], and pitched [02583] in the plains [06160] of Moab [04124] by Jordan [03383] near Jericho [03405].
⁴⁹ And they pitched [02583] by Jordan [03383], from Bethjesimoth [01020] even unto Abelshittim [063] in the plains [06160] of Moab [04124].

⁴⁹ Then said [0559] Ahaziah [0274] the son [01121] of Ahab [0256] unto Jehoshaphat [03092], Let my servants [05650] go [03212] with thy servants [05650] in the ships [0591]. But Jehoshaphat [03092] would [014] not.

²⁶ And king [04428] Solomon [08010] made [06213] a navy of ships [0590] in Eziongeber [06100], which is beside Eloth [0359], on the shore [08193] of the Red [05488] sea [03220], in the land [0776] of Edom [0123].

³⁵ And they departed [05265] from Ebronah [05684], and encamped [02583] at Eziongaber [06100].

³⁴ And they removed [05265] from Jotbathah [03193], and encamped [02583] at Ebronah [05684].

²⁷ And Hazargaddah [02693], and Heshmon [02829], and Bethpalet [01046],

¹ Then came [0935] the children [01121] of Israel [03478], even the whole congregation [05712], into the desert [04057] of Zin [06790] in the first [07223] month [02320]: and the people [05971] abode [03427] in Kadesh [06946]; and Miriam [04813] died [04191] there, and was buried [06912] there.

¹² And the children [01121] of Israel [03478] took [05265] their journeys [04550] out of the wilderness [04057] of Sinai [05514]; and the cloud [06051] rested [07931] in the wilderness [04057] of Paran [06290].

¹⁹ And they departed [05265] from Rithmah [07575], and pitched [02583] at Rimmonparez [07428].

²⁶ And they went [03212] and came [0935] to Moses [04872], and to Aaron [0175], and to all the congregation [05712] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478], unto the wilderness [04057] of Paran [06290], to Kadesh [06946]; and brought back [07725] word [01697] unto them, and unto all the congregation [05712], and shewed [07200] them the fruit [06529] of the land [0776].

¹⁸ And they departed [05265] from Hazeroth [02698], and pitched [02583] in Rithmah [07575].

³⁵ And the people [05971] journeyed [05265] from Kibrothhattaavah [06914] unto Hazeroth [02698]; and abode at Hazeroth [02698].

¹⁷ And they departed [05265] from Kibrothhattaavah [06914], and encamped [02583] at Hazeroth [02698].

¹⁶ And they removed [05265] from the desert [04057] of Sinai [05514], and pitched [02583] at Kibrothhattaavah [06914].

¹ And all the congregation [05712] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478] journeyed [05265] from the wilderness [04057] of Sin [05512], after their journeys [04550], according to the commandment [06310] of the LORD [03068], and pitched [02583] in Rephidim [07508]: and there was no water [04325] for the people [05971] to drink [08354].

¹² And they took their journey [05265] out of the wilderness [04057] of Sin [05512], and encamped [02583] in Dophkah [01850].
¹³ And they departed [05265] from Dophkah [01850], and encamped [02583] in Alush [0442].
¹⁴ And they removed [05265] from Alush [0442], and encamped [02583] at Rephidim [07508], where was no water [04325] for the people [05971] to drink [08354].

¹⁰ And they removed [05265] from Elim [0362], and encamped [02583] by the Red [05488] sea [03220].

²² So Moses [04872] brought [05265] Israel [03478] from the Red [05488] sea [03220], and they went out [03318] into the wilderness [04057] of Shur [07793]; and they went [03212] three [07969] days [03117] in the wilderness [04057], and found [04672] no water [04325].

⁸ And they departed [05265] from before [06440] Pihahiroth [06367], and passed through [05674] the midst [08432] of the sea [03220] into the wilderness [04057], and went [03212] three [07969] days [03117]' journey [01870] in the wilderness [04057] of Etham [0864], and pitched [02583] in Marah [04785].

³ And they departed [05265] from Rameses [07486] in the first [07223] month [02320], on the fifteenth [06240] [02568] day [03117] of the first [07223] month [02320]; on the morrow [04283] after the passover [06453] the children [01121] of Israel [03478] went out [03318] with an high [07311] hand [03027] in the sight [05869] of all the Egyptians [04714].
⁴ For the Egyptians [04714] buried [06912] all their firstborn [01060], which the LORD [03068] had smitten [05221] among them: upon their gods [0430] also the LORD [03068] executed [06213] judgments [08201].
⁵ And the children [01121] of Israel [03478] removed [05265] from Rameses [07486], and pitched [02583] in Succoth [05523].
⁶ And they departed [05265] from Succoth [05523], and pitched [02583] in Etham [0864], which is in the edge [07097] of the wilderness [04057].

² And Moses [04872] wrote [03789] their goings out [04161] according to their journeys [04550] by the commandment [06310] of the LORD [03068]: and these are their journeys [04550] according to their goings out [04161].

¹ And the children [01121] of Israel [03478] set forward [05265], and pitched [02583] in the plains [06160] of Moab [04124] on this side [05676] Jordan [03383] by Jericho [03405].

¹⁶ And from thence they went to Beer [0876]: that is the well [0875] whereof the LORD [03068] spake [0559] unto Moses [04872], Gather [0622] the people [05971] together [0622], and I will give [05414] them water [04325].
¹⁷ Then Israel [03478] sang [07891] this song [07892], Spring up [05927], O well [0875]; sing [06030] ye unto it:
¹⁸ The princes [08269] digged [02658] the well [0875], the nobles [05081] of the people [05971] digged [03738] it, by the direction of the lawgiver [02710], with their staves [04938]. And from the wilderness [04057] they went to Mattanah [04980]:
¹⁹ And from Mattanah [04980] to Nahaliel [05160]: and from Nahaliel [05160] to Bamoth [01120]:
²⁰ And from Bamoth [01120] in the valley [01516], that is in the country [07704] of Moab [04124], to the top [07218] of Pisgah [06449], which looketh [08259] toward [06440] Jeshimon [03452].

¹¹ And they journeyed [05265] from Oboth [088], and pitched [02583] at Ijeabarim [05863], in the wilderness [04057] which is before [06440] Moab [04124], toward the sunrising [04217] [08121].

¹⁰ And the children [01121] of Israel [03478] set forward [05265], and pitched [02583] in Oboth [088].

¹ And when king [04428] Arad [06166] the Canaanite [03669], which dwelt [03427] in the south [05045], heard [08085] tell that Israel [03478] came [0935] by the way [01870] of the spies [0871]; then he fought [03898] against Israel [03478], and took [07617] some of them prisoners [07628].

⁴⁰ And king [04428] Arad [06166] the Canaanite [03669], which dwelt [03427] in the south [05045] in the land [0776] of Canaan [03667], heard [08085] of the coming [0935] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478].

²² And the children [01121] of Israel [03478], even the whole congregation [05712], journeyed [05265] from Kadesh [06946], and came [0935] unto mount [02022] Hor [02023].

³⁷ And they removed [05265] from Kadesh [06946], and pitched [02583] in mount [02022] Hor [02023], in the edge [07097] of the land [0776] of Edom [0123].
³⁸ And Aaron [0175] the priest [03548] went up [05927] into mount [02022] Hor [02023] at the commandment [06310] of the LORD [03068], and died [04191] there, in the fortieth [0705] year [08141] after the children [01121] of Israel [03478] were come out [03318] of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714], in the first [0259] day of the fifth [02549] month [02320].
³⁹ And Aaron [0175] was an hundred [03967] and twenty [06242] and three [07969] years [08141] old [01121] when he died [04194] in mount [02022] Hor [02023].
⁴⁰ And king [04428] Arad [06166] the Canaanite [03669], which dwelt [03427] in the south [05045] in the land [0776] of Canaan [03667], heard [08085] of the coming [0935] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478].
⁴¹ And they departed [05265] from mount [02022] Hor [02023], and pitched [02583] in Zalmonah [06758].
⁴² And they departed [05265] from Zalmonah [06758], and pitched [02583] in Punon [06325].
⁴³ And they departed [05265] from Punon [06325], and pitched [02583] in Oboth [088].
⁴⁴ And they departed [05265] from Oboth [088], and pitched [02583] in Ijeabarim [05863], in the border [01366] of Moab [04124].
⁴⁵ And they departed [05265] from Iim [05864], and pitched [02583] in Dibongad [01769].
⁴⁶ And they removed [05265] from Dibongad [01769], and encamped [02583] in Almondiblathaim [05963].
⁴⁷ And they removed [05265] from Almondiblathaim [05963], and pitched [02583] in the mountains [02022] of Abarim [05682], before [06440] Nebo [05015].
⁴⁸ And they departed [05265] from the mountains [02022] of Abarim [05682], and pitched [02583] in the plains [06160] of Moab [04124] by Jordan [03383] near Jericho [03405].
⁴⁹ And they pitched [02583] by Jordan [03383], from Bethjesimoth [01020] even unto Abelshittim [063] in the plains [06160] of Moab [04124].

²⁶ And the LORD [03068] spake [01696] unto Moses [04872] and unto Aaron [0175], saying [0559],

⁴⁶ So ye abode [03427] in Kadesh [06946] many [07227] days [03117], according unto the days [03117] that ye abode [03427] there.

⁸ And the LORD [03068] spake [01696] unto Aaron [0175], Behold, I also have given [05414] thee the charge [04931] of mine heave offerings [08641] of all the hallowed things [06944] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478]; unto thee have I given [05414] them by reason of the anointing [04888], and to thy sons [01121], by an ordinance [02706] for ever [05769].

⁶ And Moses [04872] spake [01696] unto the children [01121] of Israel [03478], and every one of their princes [05387] gave [05414] him a rod [04294] [04294] apiece, for each prince [05387] [05387] one [0259] [0259], according to their fathers [01]' houses [01004], even twelve [06240] [08147] rods [04294]: and the rod [04294] of Aaron [0175] was among [08432] their rods [04294].

¹⁹ And Korah [07141] gathered [06950] all the congregation [05712] against them unto the door [06607] of the tabernacle [0168] of the congregation [04150]: and the glory [03519] of the LORD [03068] appeared [07200] unto all the congregation [05712].

³⁶ And all the congregation [05712] brought [03318] him without [02351] the camp [04264], and stoned [07275] him with stones [068], and he died [04191]; as the LORD [03068] commanded [06680] Moses [04872].

²⁶ And they removed [05265] from Makheloth [04722], and encamped [02583] at Tahath [08480].

²⁵ And they removed [05265] from Haradah [02732], and pitched [02583] in Makheloth [04722].

²⁴ And they removed [05265] from mount [02022] Shapher [08234], and encamped [02583] in Haradah [02732].

¹ And the LORD [03068] spake [01696] unto Moses [04872], saying [0559],

¹¹ And it came to pass on the twentieth [06242] day of the second [08145] month [02320], in the second [08145] year [08141], that the cloud [06051] was taken up [05927] from off the tabernacle [04908] of the testimony [05715].
¹² And the children [01121] of Israel [03478] took [05265] their journeys [04550] out of the wilderness [04057] of Sinai [05514]; and the cloud [06051] rested [07931] in the wilderness [04057] of Paran [06290].

¹⁹ And they departed [05265] from Rithmah [07575], and pitched [02583] at Rimmonparez [07428].
²⁰ And they departed [05265] from Rimmonparez [07428], and pitched [02583] in Libnah [03841].
²¹ And they removed [05265] from Libnah [03841], and pitched [02583] at Rissah [07446].
²² And they journeyed [05265] from Rissah [07446], and pitched [02583] in Kehelathah [06954].
²³ And they went [05265] from Kehelathah [06954], and pitched [02583] in mount [02022] Shapher [08234].
²⁴ And they removed [05265] from mount [02022] Shapher [08234], and encamped [02583] in Haradah [02732].
²⁵ And they removed [05265] from Haradah [02732], and pitched [02583] in Makheloth [04722].
²⁶ And they removed [05265] from Makheloth [04722], and encamped [02583] at Tahath [08480].
²⁷ And they departed [05265] from Tahath [08480], and pitched [02583] at Tarah [08646].
²⁸ And they removed [05265] from Tarah [08646], and pitched [02583] in Mithcah [04989].
²⁹ And they went [05265] from Mithcah [04989], and pitched [02583] in Hashmonah [02832].

¹ And the LORD [03068] spake [01696] unto Moses [04872] and unto Aaron [0175], saying [0559],

⁴⁶ So ye abode [03427] in Kadesh [06946] many [07227] days [03117], according unto the days [03117] that ye abode [03427] there.

³⁶ And they removed [05265] from Eziongaber [06100], and pitched [02583] in the wilderness [04057] of Zin [06790], which is Kadesh [06946].

⁸ And when we passed [05674] by from our brethren [0251] the children [01121] of Esau [06215], which dwelt [03427] in Seir [08165], through the way [01870] of the plain [06160] from Elath [0359], and from Eziongaber [06100], we turned [06437] and passed [05674] by the way [01870] of the wilderness [04057] of Moab [04124].

³⁶ And they removed [05265] from Eziongaber [06100], and pitched [02583] in the wilderness [04057] of Zin [06790], which is Kadesh [06946].

³⁵ And they departed [05265] from Ebronah [05684], and encamped [02583] at Eziongaber [06100].

⁷ From thence they journeyed [05265] unto Gudgodah [01412]; and from Gudgodah [01412] to Jotbath [03193], a land [0776] of rivers [05158] of waters [04325].

⁴¹ And they departed [05265] from mount [02022] Hor [02023], and pitched [02583] in Zalmonah [06758].

⁷ From thence they journeyed [05265] unto Gudgodah [01412]; and from Gudgodah [01412] to Jotbath [03193], a land [0776] of rivers [05158] of waters [04325].

⁴² The sons [01121] of Ezer [0687]; Bilhan [01092], and Zavan [02190], and Jakan [03292]. The sons [01121] of Dishan [01789]; Uz [05780], and Aran [0765].

²⁷ The children [01121] of Ezer [0687] are these; Bilhan [01092], and Zaavan [02190], and Akan [06130].

⁶ And the children [01121] of Israel [03478] took their journey [05265] from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan [0885] to Mosera [04149]: there Aaron [0175] died [04191], and there he was buried [06912]; and Eleazar [0499] his son [01121] ministered in the priest's office [03547] in his stead.
⁷ From thence they journeyed [05265] unto Gudgodah [01412]; and from Gudgodah [01412] to Jotbath [03193], a land [0776] of rivers [05158] of waters [04325].

³⁰ And they departed [05265] from Hashmonah [02832], and encamped [02583] at Moseroth [04149].
³¹ And they departed [05265] from Moseroth [04149], and pitched [02583] in Benejaakan [01142].
³² And they removed [05265] from Benejaakan [01142], and encamped [02583] at Horhagidgad [02735].
³³ And they went [05265] from Horhagidgad [02735], and pitched [02583] in Jotbathah [03193].

³³ And they departed [05265] from the mount [02022] of the LORD [03068] three [07969] days [03117]' journey [01870]: and the ark [0727] of the covenant [01285] of the LORD [03068] went [05265] before [06440] them in the three [07969] days [03117]' journey [01870], to search out [08446] a resting place [04496] for them.

³⁸ And a mixed [06154] multitude [07227] went up [05927] also with them; and flocks [06629], and herds [01241], even very [03966] much [03515] cattle [04735].

²⁵ (Now the Amalekites [06003] and the Canaanites [03669] dwelt [03427] in the valley [06010].) To morrow [04279] turn [06437] you, and get [05265] you into the wilderness [04057] by the way [01870] of the Red [05488] sea [03220].

¹⁸ And they departed [05265] from Hazeroth [02698], and pitched [02583] in Rithmah [07575].

²¹ So they went up [05927], and searched [08446] the land [0776] from the wilderness [04057] of Zin [06790] unto Rehob [07340], as men come [0935] to Hamath [02574].

¹⁶ And afterward [0310] the people [05971] removed [05265] from Hazeroth [02698], and pitched [02583] in the wilderness [04057] of Paran [06290].

³⁵ And the people [05971] journeyed [05265] from Kibrothhattaavah [06914] unto Hazeroth [02698]; and abode at Hazeroth [02698].

³⁴ And he called [07121] the name [08034] of that place [04725] Kibrothhattaavah [06914]: because there they buried [06912] the people [05971] that lusted [0183].

³⁶ And they removed [05265] from Eziongaber [06100], and pitched [02583] in the wilderness [04057] of Zin [06790], which is Kadesh [06946].

² For they were departed [05265] from Rephidim [07508], and were come [0935] to the desert [04057] of Sinai [05514], and had pitched [02583] in the wilderness [04057]; and there Israel [03478] camped [02583] before the mount [02022].

¹ And they took their journey [05265] from Elim [0362], and all the congregation [05712] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478] came [0935] unto the wilderness [04057] of Sin [05512], which is between Elim [0362] and Sinai [05514], on the fifteenth [02568] [06240] day [03117] of the second [08145] month [02320] after their departing out [03318] of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714].

²⁷ And they came [0935] to Elim [0362], where were twelve [08147] [06240] wells [05869] of water [04325], and threescore and ten [07657] palm trees [08558]: and they encamped [02583] there by the waters [04325].

²³ And when they came [0935] to Marah [04785], they could [03201] not drink [08354] of the waters [04325] of Marah [04785], for they were bitter [04751]: therefore the name [08034] of it was called [07121] Marah [04785].

² Speak [01696] unto the children [01121] of Israel [03478], that they turn [07725] and encamp [02583] before [06440] Pihahiroth [06367], between Migdol [04024] and the sea [03220], over against [06440] Baalzephon [01189]: before [05226] it shall ye encamp [02583] by the sea [03220].

²⁰ And they took their journey [05265] from Succoth [05523], and encamped [02583] in Etham [0864], in the edge [07097] of the wilderness [04057].

¹⁴ And they removed [05265] from Alush [0442], and encamped [02583] at Rephidim [07508], where was no water [04325] for the people [05971] to drink [08354].

¹³ And they departed [05265] from Dophkah [01850], and encamped [02583] in Alush [0442].

¹⁰ And they removed [05265] from Elim [0362], and encamped [02583] by the Red [05488] sea [03220].

⁵ And the children [01121] of Israel [03478] removed [05265] from Rameses [07486], and pitched [02583] in Succoth [05523].
⁶ And they departed [05265] from Succoth [05523], and pitched [02583] in Etham [0864], which is in the edge [07097] of the wilderness [04057].
⁷ And they removed [05265] from Etham [0864], and turned again [07725] unto Pihahiroth [06367], which is before Baalzephon [01189]: and they pitched [02583] before [06440] Migdol [04024].
⁸ And they departed [05265] from before [06440] Pihahiroth [06367], and passed through [05674] the midst [08432] of the sea [03220] into the wilderness [04057], and went [03212] three [07969] days [03117]' journey [01870] in the wilderness [04057] of Etham [0864], and pitched [02583] in Marah [04785].
⁹ And they removed [05265] from Marah [04785], and came [0935] unto Elim [0362]: and in Elim [0362] were twelve [08147] [06240] fountains [05869] of water [04325], and threescore and ten [07657] palm trees [08558]; and they pitched [02583] there.
¹⁰ And they removed [05265] from Elim [0362], and encamped [02583] by the Red [05488] sea [03220].
¹¹ And they removed [05265] from the Red [05488] sea [03220], and encamped [02583] in the wilderness [04057] of Sin [05512].
¹² And they took their journey [05265] out of the wilderness [04057] of Sin [05512], and encamped [02583] in Dophkah [01850].
¹³ And they departed [05265] from Dophkah [01850], and encamped [02583] in Alush [0442].
¹⁴ And they removed [05265] from Alush [0442], and encamped [02583] at Rephidim [07508], where was no water [04325] for the people [05971] to drink [08354].
¹⁵ And they departed [05265] from Rephidim [07508], and pitched [02583] in the wilderness [04057] of Sinai [05514].

⁸ And the LORD [03068] hardened [02388] the heart [03820] of Pharaoh [06547] king [04428] of Egypt [04714], and he pursued [07291] after [0310] the children [01121] of Israel [03478]: and the children [01121] of Israel [03478] went out [03318] with an high [07311] hand [03027].

¹² For I will pass [05674] through the land [0776] of Egypt [04714] this night [03915], and will smite [05221] all the firstborn [01060] in the land [0776] of Egypt [04714], both man [0120] and beast [0929]; and against all the gods [0430] of Egypt [04714] I will execute [06213] judgment [08201]: I am the LORD [03068].

³⁷ And the children [01121] of Israel [03478] journeyed [05265] from Rameses [07486] to Succoth [05523], about six [08337] hundred [03967] thousand [0505] on foot [07273] that were men [01397], beside [0905] children [02945].
³⁸ And a mixed [06154] multitude [07227] went up [05927] also with them; and flocks [06629], and herds [01241], even very [03966] much [03515] cattle [04735].
³⁹ And they baked [0644] unleavened [04682] cakes [05692] of the dough [01217] which they brought forth [03318] out of Egypt [04714], for it was not leavened [02556]; because they were thrust out [01644] of Egypt [04714], and could [03201] not tarry [04102], neither had they prepared [06213] for themselves any victual [06720].
⁴⁰ Now the sojourning [04186] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478], who dwelt [03427] in Egypt [04714], was four [0702] hundred [03967] [08141] and thirty [07970] years [08141].
⁴¹ And it came to pass at the end [07093] of the four [0702] hundred [03967] [08141] and thirty [07970] years [08141], even the selfsame [06106] day [03117] it came to pass, that all the hosts [06635] of the LORD [03068] went out [03318] from the land [0776] of Egypt [04714].

¹⁷ And ye shall observe [08104] the feast of unleavened bread [04682]; for in this selfsame [06106] day [03117] have I brought [03318] your armies [06635] out of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714]: therefore shall ye observe [08104] this day [03117] in your generations [01755] by an ordinance [02708] for ever [05769].

²¹ This [0428] is the sum [06485] of the tabernacle [04908], even of the tabernacle [04908] of testimony [05715], as it was counted [06485], according to the commandment [06310] of Moses [04872], for the service [05656] of the Levites [03881], by the hand [03027] of Ithamar [0385], son [01121] to Aaron [0175] the priest [03548].

²⁸ This is the service [05656] of the families [04940] of the sons [01121] of Gershon [01649] in the tabernacle [0168] of the congregation [04150]: and their charge [04931] shall be under the hand [03027] of Ithamar [0385] the son [01121] of Aaron [0175] the priest [03548].

⁴ But Pharaoh [06547] shall not hearken [08085] unto you, that I may lay [05414] my hand [03027] upon Egypt [04714], and bring forth [03318] mine armies [06635], and my people [05971] the children [01121] of Israel [03478], out of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714] by great [01419] judgments [08201].

³ And he went [03212] on his journeys [04550] from the south [05045] even to Bethel [01008], unto the place [04725] where his tent [0168] had been [01961] at the beginning [08462], between Bethel [01008] and Hai [05857];

¹⁰ He found [04672] him in a desert [04057] land [0776], and in the waste [08414] howling [03214] wilderness [03452]; he led him about [05437], he instructed [0995] him, he kept [05341] him as the apple [0380] of his eye [05869].

⁴ Ye have seen [07200] what I did [06213] unto the Egyptians [04714], and how I bare [05375] you on eagles [05404]' wings [03671], and brought [0935] you unto myself.

¹ And the children [01121] of Israel [03478] set forward [05265], and pitched [02583] in the plains [06160] of Moab [04124] on this side [05676] Jordan [03383] by Jericho [03405].