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Green's Literal Translation

Numbers 33:15

And they pulled up stakes from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Israel;   Rephidim;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Camp, Encampments;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Tabernacle;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Rephidim;   Wandering;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Number;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Numbers, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Rephidim ;   Wanderings of the Israelites;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Rimmonparez;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Horeb;   Paran;   Rephidim;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Numbers, Book of;   Wanderings of Israel;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Scroll of the Law;   Sidra;   Wilderness, Wanderings in the;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
They journeyed from Refidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
King James Version
And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
Lexham English Bible
They set out from Rephidim and camped in the desert of Sinai.
English Standard Version
And they set out from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.
New Century Version
They left Rephidim and camped in the Desert of Sinai.
New English Translation
They traveled from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.
Amplified Bible
They moved out from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai [where they remained for about a year].
New American Standard Bible
And they journeyed from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wildernesse of Sinai.
Legacy Standard Bible
They journeyed from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.
Contemporary English Version
They left Rephidim and finally reached the Sinai Desert.
Complete Jewish Bible
They moved on from Refidim and camped in the Sinai Desert.
Darby Translation
And they removed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
Easy-to-Read Version
They left Rephidim and camped in the desert of Sinai.
George Lamsa Translation
And they departed from Rephidim and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
Good News Translation
From Rephidim to Mount Hor they set up camp at the following places: the Sinai Desert, Kibroth Hattaavah (or "Graves of Craving"), Hazeroth, Rithmah, Rimmon Perez, Libnah, Rissah, Kehelathah, Mount Shepher, Haradah, Makheloth, Tahath, Terah, Mithkah, Hashmonah, Moseroth, Bene Jaakan, Hor Haggidgad, Jotbathah, Abronah, Eziongeber, the wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh), and Mount Hor, at the edge of the land of Edom.
Christian Standard Bible®
They traveled from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
From Raphidim they departed and pitched in the wildernes of Sinai.
American Standard Version
And they journeyed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
Bible in Basic English
And they went on from Rephidim, and put up their tents in the waste land of Sinai.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they departed from Raphidim, & pitched in the wildernesse of Sinai.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they journeyed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
King James Version (1611)
And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wildernesse of Sinai.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they departed from Raphidin, and encamped in the wilderness of Sina.
English Revised Version
And they journeyed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
Berean Standard Bible
They set out from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei yeden forth fro Raphidyn, and settiden tentis in the deseert of Synai.
Young's Literal Translation
And they journey from Rephidim, and encamp in the wilderness of Sinai;
Update Bible Version
And they journeyed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they departed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
World English Bible
They journeyed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
New King James Version
They departed from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.
New Living Translation
They left Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.
New Life Bible
They went from Rephidim and stayed in the Desert of Sinai.
New Revised Standard
They set out from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they brake up from Rephidim, - and encamped in the desert of Sinai.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And departing from Raphidim, they camped in the desert of Sinai.
Revised Standard Version
And they set out from Reph'idim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They journeyed from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.

Contextual Overview

1 These are the journeys of the sons of Israel who went out from the land of Egypt according to their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron. 2 And Moses wrote their departures according to their journeys by the mouth of Jehovah. And these are their journeys, according to their departures: 3 And they pulled up stakes from Rameses in the first month on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the next day after the Passover the sons of Israel went out with a high hand, before the eyes of all the Egyptians. 4 And the Egyptians were burying those whom Jehovah had smitten among them, every first-born, and Jehovah had executed judgments on their gods. 5 And the sons of Israel pulled up stakes from Rameses and camped in Succoth. 6 And they pulled up stakes from Succoth and camped at Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. 7 And they pulled up stakes from Etham and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon; and they camped before Migdol. 8 And they pulled up stakes from Pihahiroth and passed over through the midst of the Sea, into the wilderness, and went a journey of three days in the wilderness of Etham, and camped at Marah. 9 And they pulled up stakes from Marah and came to Elim. And in Elim were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. And they camped there. 10 And they pulled up stakes from Elim and camped by the Sea of Reeds.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 16:1, Exodus 19:1, Exodus 19:2

Reciprocal: Numbers 10:12 - out of the

Cross-References

Genesis 34:11
And Shechem said to her father, and to her brothers, Let me find favor in your eyes, and what you say to me I will give.
Genesis 47:25
And they said, You have saved our lives; let us find favor in the eyes of my lord, and we will become slaves to Pharaoh.
Ruth 2:13
And she said, Let me find grace in your eyes, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken to the heart of your handmaid. And I surely am not as one of your handmaids.
1 Samuel 25:8
Ask your young men, and they will tell you. And may the young men find favor in your eyes, for we have come at a good day. Please give that which your hand finds to your servants, and to your son, to David.
2 Samuel 16:4
And the king said to Ziba, Behold, all that Mephibosheth has is yours. And Ziba said, I bow myself; may I find favor in your eyes, my lord, O king.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai. Eight miles from Rephidim; and from a mount of this name here were given the decalogue, with all other statutes and ordinances, judicial and ceremonial, and orders and directions for building the tabernacle, and making all the vessels appertaining to it, and which were all made during their stay here.

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. XI.

Verse Numbers 33:15. The WILDERNESS of SINAI.] Somewhere northward of Mount Sinai, on the straight road to the promised land, to which they now directed their course.


 
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