Numbers 33:14

Easy-to-Read Version

They left Alush and camped at Rephidim. There was no water for the people to drink at that place.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
They journeyed from Alush, and encamped in Refidim, where was no water for the people to drink.

King James Version
And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.

Lexham English Bible
They set out from Alush and encamped at Rephidim; and it was there that the people had no water to drink.

English Standard Version
And they set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

New Century Version
They left Alush and camped at Rephidim, where the people had no water to drink.

New English Translation
They traveled from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

Amplified Bible
They moved out from Alush and camped at Rephidim; now it was there that the people had no water to drink.

New American Standard Bible
And they journeyed from Alush and camped at Rephidim; now it was there that the people had no water to drink.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And they remoued from Alush, and lay in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drinke.

Legacy Standard Bible
They journeyed from Alush and camped at Rephidim; now it was there that the people had no water to drink.

Complete Jewish Bible
They moved on from Alush and camped at Refidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

Darby Translation
And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

George Lamsa Translation
And they departed from Alush and encamped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

Good News Translation
Next was Rephidim, where there was no water for them to drink.

Christian Standard Bible®
They traveled from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

Literal Translation
And they pulled up stakes from Alush and camped in Rephidim; and no water was there for the people to drink.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
From Alus they departed, and pitched in Raphidim, where the people had no water to drynke.

American Standard Version
And they journeyed from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.

Bible in Basic English
And they went on from Alush, and put up their tents in Rephidim, where there was no drinking-water for the people.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they remoued from Alus, and lay at Raphidim, where was no water for the people to drynke.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they journeyed from Alush, and pitched in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.

King James Version (1611)
And they remoued from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drinke.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they departed from Ælus, and encamped in Raphidin; and there was no water there for the people to drink.

English Revised Version
And they journeyed from Alush, and pitched in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.

Berean Standard Bible
They set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei yeden forth fro Haluys, and settiden tentis in Raphidyn, where watir failide to `the puple to drinke.

Young's Literal Translation
and they journey from Alush, and encamp in Rephidim; and there was there no water for the people to drink.

Update Bible Version
And they journeyed from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.

World English Bible
They journeyed from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.

New King James Version
They moved from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

New Living Translation
They left Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

New Life Bible
They traveled from Alush and stayed at Rephidim. It was there that the people had no water to drink.

New Revised Standard
They set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they brake up from Alush, - and encamped in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And departing from Alus, they pitched their tents in Raphidim, where the people wanted water to drink.

Revised Standard Version
And they set out from Alush, and encamped at Reph'idim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They journeyed from Alush and camped at Rephidim; now it was there that the people had no water to drink.

Contextual Overview

¹ Here is a list of the places the Israelites went when they left Egypt. They were organized in groups like an army and were led by Moses and Aaron. ² Following the Lord 's command, Moses kept a record of each place they stayed before moving on to the next place. These are all the places they went: ³ On the 15th day of the first month, they left Rameses. That morning after Passover, the Israelites marched out of Egypt with their arms raised in victory. All the people of Egypt saw them. ⁴ The Egyptians were burying all the people the Lord killed. They were burying all their firstborn sons. The Lord had shown his judgment against the gods of Egypt. ⁵ The Israelites left Rameses and traveled to Succoth. ⁶ From Succoth they traveled to Etham. They camped there at the edge of the desert. ⁷ They left Etham and went to Pi Hahiroth. This was near Baal Zephon. They camped near Migdol. ⁸ They left Pi Hahiroth and walked through the middle of the sea. They went toward the desert. Then they traveled for three days through the desert of Etham. The people camped at Marah. ⁹ They left Marah and went to Elim and camped there. There were 12 springs of water and 70 palm trees there. ¹⁰ They left Elim and camped near the Red Sea.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Rephidim: Exodus 17:1-8, Exodus 19:2

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 3:9 - no water

Cross-References

Genesis 32:3
Jacob's brother Esau was living in the area called Seir in the hill country of Edom. Jacob sent messengers to Esau.

Genesis 33:2
Jacob put the maids with their children first. Then he put Leah and her children behind them, and he put Rachel and Joseph in the last place.

Genesis 33:3
Jacob himself went out before them. While he was walking toward his brother Esau, he bowed down to the ground seven times.

Genesis 33:19
He bought the field where he camped from the family of Hamor, father of Shechem. He paid 100 pieces of silver for it.

Deuteronomy 2:1
"Then we did what the Lord told me to do. We went back into the desert on the road that leads to the Red Sea. We traveled for many days to go around the mountains of Seir.

Judges 5:4
" Lord , in the past you came from Seir. You marched from the land of Edom. You marched and the earth shook. The skies rained. The clouds dropped water.

2 Chronicles 20:10
"But now, here are men from Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir. You would not let the Israelites enter their lands when they came out of Egypt. So the Israelites turned away and didn't destroy them.

Isaiah 40:11
Like a good shepherd, he takes care of his people. He gathers them like lambs in his arms. He holds them close, while their mothers walk beside him.

Ezekiel 25:8
This is what the Lord God says: "Moab and Seir say, ‘The family of Judah is just like any other nation.'

Mark 4:33
Jesus used many stories like these to teach the people. He taught them all they could understand.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim,.... Eight miles from Alush:

where was no water for the people to drink; and they murmured, and a rock here was smitten by Moses at the command of God, and waters gushed out sufficient for them and their flocks, Exodus 17:1.

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. X.

Verse Numbers 33:14. REPHIDIM.] Remarkable for the rebellion of the Israelites against Moses, because of the want of water, Exodus 17:1-3.