Numbers 33:28

Contemporary English Version

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
They journeyed from Terach, and encamped in Mitkah.

King James Version
And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.

Lexham English Bible
They set out from Terah and camped at Mithcah.

English Standard Version
And they set out from Terah and camped at Mithkah.

New Century Version
They left Terah and camped at Mithcah.

New English Translation
They traveled from Terah and camped in Mithcah.

Amplified Bible
They moved out from Terah and camped at Mithkah.

New American Standard Bible
They journeyed from Terah and camped at Mithkah.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And they remoued from Tarah, and pitched in Mithkah.

Legacy Standard Bible
They journeyed from Terah and camped at Mithkah.

Complete Jewish Bible
They moved on from Terach and camped at Mitkah.

Darby Translation
And they removed from Terah, and encamped in Mithcah.

Easy-to-Read Version
They left Terah and camped at Mithcah.

George Lamsa Translation
And they departed from Tarah, and encamped at Mithcah.

Christian Standard Bible®
They traveled from Terah and camped at Mithkah.

Literal Translation
And they pulled up stakes from Tarah and camped in Mithcah.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
From Tharah they departed, and pitched in Mitka.

American Standard Version
And they journeyed from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.

Bible in Basic English
And they went on from Terah, and put up their tents in Mithkah.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they remoued from Tharath, and pitched in Mithca.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they journeyed from Terah, and pitched in Mithkah.

King James Version (1611)
And they remoued from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they departed from Tarath, and encamped in Mathecca.

English Revised Version
And they journeyed from Terah, and pitched in Mithkah.

Berean Standard Bible
They set out from Terah and camped at Mithkah.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
fro whennus thei yeden out, and settiden tentis in Methcha.

Young's Literal Translation
and they journey from Tarah, and encamp in Mithcah.

Update Bible Version
And they journeyed from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they removed from Tarah, and encamped in Mithcah.

World English Bible
They journeyed from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.

New King James Version
They moved from Terah and camped at Mithkah.

New Living Translation
They left Terah and camped at Mithcah.

New Life Bible
They went from Terah and stayed at Mithkah.

New Revised Standard
They set out from Terah and camped at Mithkah.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they brake up from Terah, - and encamped in Mithkah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they departed from thence, and pitched their tents in Methca.

Revised Standard Version
And they set out from Terah, and encamped at Mithkah.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They journeyed from Terah and camped at Mithkah.

Contextual Overview

¹ As Israel traveled from Egypt under the command of Moses and Aaron, ² Moses kept a list of the places they camped, just as the Lord had instructed. Here is the record of their journey: ³Israel left the Egyptian city of Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month. This was the day after the Lord had punished Egypt's gods by killing the first-born sons in every Egyptian family. So while the Egyptians were burying the bodies, they watched the Israelites proudly leave their country. ⁵ After the Israelites left Rameses, they camped at Succoth, ⁶ and from there, they moved their camp to Etham on the edge of the desert. ⁷ Then they turned back toward Pi-Hahiroth, east of Baal-Zephon, and camped near Migdol. ⁸ They left Pi-Hahiroth, crossed the Red Sea, then walked three days into the Etham Desert and camped at Marah. ⁹ Next, they camped at Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. ¹⁰ They left Elim and camped near the Red Sea, ¹¹ then turned east and camped along the western edge of the Sinai Desert.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 1 Kings 9:26; 1 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

STAT. XXIV.

Verse Numbers 33:28. MITHCAH.] Calmet conjectures that this may be Mocha, a city in Arabia Petraea.