Numbers 33:2

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the mitzvah of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.

King James Version
And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the Lord : and these are their journeys according to their goings out.

Lexham English Bible
Moses wrote down their movements according to their journeys on the command of Yahweh, and these are their journeys according to their movements.

English Standard Version
Moses wrote down their starting places, stage by stage, by command of the Lord , and these are their stages according to their starting places.

New Century Version
At the Lord 's command Moses recorded the places they went, and these are the places they went.

New English Translation
Moses recorded their departures according to their journeys, by the commandment of the Lord ; now these are their journeys according to their departures.

Amplified Bible
Moses recorded their points of departure, as the LORD commanded, stage by stage; and these are their journeys according to their points of departure:

New American Standard Bible
Moses recorded their starting places according to their journeys by the command of the LORD, and these are their journeys according to their starting places.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Moses wrote their going out by their iourneies according to ye commandement of the Lord: so these are ye iourneies of their going out.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Moses wrote down their starting places according to their journeys by the command of Yahweh, and these are their journeys according to their starting places.

Contemporary English Version
Moses kept a list of the places they camped, just as the Lord had instructed. Here is the record of their journey:

Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe recorded each of the stages of their journey by order of Adonai ; here are the starting-points of each stage:

Darby Translation
And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Jehovah; and these are their journeys according to their goings out.

Easy-to-Read Version
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:

George Lamsa Translation
And Moses wrote down their goings out and their journeys by the commandment of the LORD; and these are their journeys according to their goings out.

Good News Translation
At the command of the Lord , Moses wrote down the name of the place each time they set up camp.

Christian Standard Bible®
At the Lord’s command, Moses wrote down the starting points for the stages of their journey; these are the stages listed by their starting points:

Literal Translation
And Moses wrote their departures according to their journeys by the mouth of Jehovah. And these are their journeys, according to their departures:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Moses wrote their goige out as they iourneyed, after ye comaundement of ye LORDE. And these (namely) are the yourneyes of their outgoinge.

American Standard Version
And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Jehovah: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.

Bible in Basic English
And the stages of their journey on their way out were put down in writing by Moses at the order of the Lord: these are the stages of their journey and the way they went.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses wrote their goyng out by their iourneis, accordyng to the commaundement of the Lorde: euen these are the iourneis of their goyng out.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses wrote their goings forth, stage by stage, by the commandment of the LORD; and these are their stages at their goings forth.

King James Version (1611)
And Moses wrote their goings out according to their iourneyes, by the commandement of the Lord: and these are their iourneyes according to their goings out.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses wrote their removals and their stages, by the word of the Lord: and these are the stages of their journeying.

English Revised Version
And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.

Berean Standard Bible
At the LORD's command, Moses recorded the stages of their journey. These are the stages listed by their starting points:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whiche dwellyngis Moises discriuede bi the places of tentis, that weren chaungid bi comaundement of the Lord.

Young's Literal Translation
and Moses writeth their outgoings, by their journeys, by the command of Jehovah; and these [are] their journeys, by their outgoings:

Update Bible Version
And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these [are] their journeys according to their goings out.

World English Bible
Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.

New King James Version
Now Moses wrote down the starting points of their journeys at the command of the LORD. And these are their journeys according to their starting points:

New Living Translation
At the Lord 's direction, Moses kept a written record of their progress. These are the stages of their march, identified by the different places where they stopped along the way.

New Life Bible
Moses wrote down the starting places of their travels, as the Lord told him. These are their travels by their starting places.

New Revised Standard
Moses wrote down their starting points, stage by stage, by command of the Lord ; and these are their stages according to their starting places.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Moses wrote their coming forth by their departures, at the bidding of Yahweh, - and these, are their departures by their comings forth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Which Moses wrote down according to the places of their encamping, which they changed by the commandment of the Lord.

Revised Standard Version
Moses wrote down their starting places, stage by stage, by command of the LORD; and these are their stages according to their starting places.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Moses recorded their starting places according to their journeys by the command of the LORD, and these are their journeys according to their starting places.

Contextual Overview

¹These are the camping sites in the journey of the People of Israel after they left Egypt, deployed militarily under the command of Moses and Aaron. Under God 's instruction Moses kept a log of every time they moved, camp by camp: ³They marched out of Rameses the day after the Passover. It was the fifteenth day of the first month. They marched out heads high and confident. The Egyptians, busy burying their firstborn whom God had killed, watched them go. God had exposed the nonsense of their gods. ⁵The People of Israel: left Rameses and camped at Succoth; left Succoth and camped at Etham at the edge of the wilderness; left Etham, circled back to Pi Hahiroth east of Baal Zephon, and camped near Migdol; left Pi Hahiroth and crossed through the Sea into the wilderness; three days into the Wilderness of Etham they camped at Marah; left Marah and came to Elim where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees; they camped there; left Elim and camped by the Red Sea; left the Red Sea and camped in the Wilderness of Sin; left the Wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah; left Dophkah and camped at Alush; left Alush and camped at Rephidim where there was no water for the people to drink; left Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai; left the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth Hattaavah; left Kibroth Hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth; left Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah; left Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perez; left Rimmon Perez and camped at Libnah; left Libnah and camped at Rissah; left Rissah and camped at Kehelathah; left Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher; left Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah; left Haradah and camped at Makheloth; left Makheloth and camped at Tahath; left Tahath and camped at Terah; left Terah and camped at Mithcah; left Mithcah and camped at Hashmonah; left Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth; left Moseroth and camped at Bene Jaakan; left Bene Jaakan and camped at Hor Haggidgad; left Hor Haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah; left Jotbathah and camped at Abronah; left Abronah and camped at Ezion Geber; left Ezion Geber and camped at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin. ³⁷After they left Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor at the border of Edom, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor at God 's command and died there. It was the first day of the fifth month in the fortieth year after the People of Israel had left Egypt. Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor. ⁴⁰ The Canaanite king of Arad—he ruled in the Negev of Canaan—heard that the People of Israel had arrived. ⁴¹They left Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah; left Zalmonah and camped at Punon; left Punon and camped at Oboth; left Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim on the border of Moab; left Iyim and camped at Dibon Gad; left Dibon Gad and camped at Almon Diblathaim; left Almon Diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim (Across-the-River), within sight of Nebo. ⁴⁸After they left the mountains of Abarim they camped on the Plains of Moab at Jordan-Jericho. On the Plains of Moab their camp stretched along the banks of the Jordan from Beth Jeshimoth to Abel Shittim (Acacia Meadow).

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

journeys: Numbers 9:17-23, Numbers 10:6, Numbers 10:13, Deuteronomy 1:2, Deuteronomy 10:11

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 10:6 - took Deuteronomy 31:9 - Moses Psalms 56:8 - tellest

Cross-References

Genesis 37:3
Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons because he was the child of his old age. And he made him an elaborately embroidered coat. When his brothers realized that their father loved him more than them, they grew to hate him—they wouldn't even speak to him.

Malachi 3:17
God -of-the-Angel-Armies said, "They're mine, all mine. They'll get special treatment when I go into action. I treat them with the same consideration and kindness that parents give the child who honors them. Once more you'll see the difference it makes between being a person who does the right thing and one who doesn't, between serving God and not serving him."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys, by the commandment of the Lord,.... Which may be understood, either that their journeys were by the commandment of the Lord; so Aben Ezra takes the connection to be, and which is undoubtedly true, and which is expressed plainly elsewhere; for so it was, that when the cloud abode on the tabernacle they rested, and had their stations, and continued as long as the cloud tarried on it, and when that was taken up, then they marched; and thus at the commandment of the Lord they rested, and at the commandment of the Lord they journeyed, see Numbers 9:17 or that Moses wrote the account of their journeys, and several stations, at the commandment of the Lord, that it might be on record, and be read in future ages, and appear to be a fact, that they were led about in a wilderness, in places which were unknown to others, and had no names but what they gave them:

and these are their journeys according to their goings out; from place to place; some of the ancients, as Jerom z particularly, and some modern writers, have allegorized these journeys of the children of Israel, and have fancied that there is something in the signification of the names of the places they came to, and abode in, suitable to the cases and circumstances of the people of God in their passage through this world; but though the travels of the children of Israel in the wilderness may in general be an emblem of the case and condition of the people of God in this world, and there are many things in them, and which they met with, and befell them, that may be accommodated to them; yet the particulars will never hold good of individual saints, since they are not all led exactly in the same path of difficulties and troubles, but each have something peculiar to themselves; and it will be difficult to apply these things to the church of God in general, in the several stages and periods of time, and which I do not know that any have attempted; and yet, if there is anything pointed out by the travels, one would think it should be that.

z "De 42 mansionibus", Fabiolae, "inter opera ejus", T. 3. fol. 13.

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

Verse Numbers 33:2. And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys — We may consider the whole book of Numbers as a diary, and indeed the first book of travels ever published. Dr. Shaw, Dr. Pococke, and several others, have endeavoured to mark out the route of the Israelites, through this great, dreary, and trackless desert, and have ascertained many of the stages here described. Indeed there are sufficient evidences of this important journey still remaining, for the descriptions of many are so particular that the places are readily ascertained by them; but this is not the case with all. Israel was the Church of God in the wilderness, and its unsettled, wandering state under Moses may point out the unsettled state of religion under the law. Their being brought, after the death of Moses, into the promised rest by Joshua, may point out the establishment, fixedness, and certainty of that salvation provided by Jesus Christ, of whom Joshua, in name and conduct, was a remarkable type. Mr. Ainsworth imagines that the forty-two stations here enumerated, through which the Israelites were brought to the verge of the promised land, and afterwards taken over Jordan into the rest which God had promised, point out the forty-two generations from Abraham unto Christ, through whom the Saviour of the world came, by whose blood we have an entrance into the holiest, and enjoy the inheritance among the saints in light. And Mr. Bromley, in his Way to the Sabbath of Rest, considers each name and place as descriptive of the spiritual state through which a soul passes in its way to the kingdom of God. But in cases of this kind fancy has much more to do than judgment.