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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Numbers 33:11

And they brake up from the Red Sea, - and encamped in the desert of Sin.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Red Sea;   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 - Sin, Wilderness of;   Wandering;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Number;   Sin, Wilderness of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Red Sea (Reed Sea);   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Numbers, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sin, Wilderness of;   Wanderings of the Israelites;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Rimmonparez;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Paran;   Sin;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sin,;   Sin, Wilderness of,;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
They journeyed from the Sea of Suf, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
King James Version
And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
Lexham English Bible
They set out from the Red Sea and camped at the desert of Sin.
English Standard Version
And they set out from the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Sin.
New Century Version
They left the Red Sea and camped in the Desert of Sin.
New English Translation
They traveled from the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Zin.
Amplified Bible
They moved out from the Red Sea and camped in the Wilderness of Sin.
New American Standard Bible
And they journeyed from the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Sin.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they remoued from the red Sea, and lay in the wildernesse of Sin.
Legacy Standard Bible
They journeyed from the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Sin.
Contemporary English Version
then turned east and camped along the western edge of the Sinai Desert.
Complete Jewish Bible
(LY: ii) They moved on from the Sea of Suf and camped in the Seen Desert.
Darby Translation
And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
Easy-to-Read Version
They left the Red Sea and camped in the western Sinai desert.
George Lamsa Translation
And they departed from the Red Sea and encamped in the wilderness of Seen.
Good News Translation
Their next camp was in the desert of Sin.
Christian Standard Bible®
They traveled from the Red Sea and camped in the Wilderness of Sin.
Literal Translation
And they pulled up stakes from the Sea of Reeds and camped in the wilderness of Sin.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
From ye reed see they departed, and pitched in the wildernesse of Sin.
American Standard Version
And they journeyed from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
Bible in Basic English
Then from the Red Sea they went on and put up their tents in the waste land of Sin.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they remoued from the red sea, and camped in the wildernesse of Zin.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they journeyed from the Red Sea, and pitched in the wilderness of Sin.
King James Version (1611)
And they remooued from the red sea, and encamped in the wildernesse of Sin.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they departed from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
English Revised Version
And they journeyed from the Red Sea, and pitched in the wilderness of Sin.
Berean Standard Bible
They set out from the Red Sea and camped in the Desert of Sin.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and settiden tentis in the deseert of Syn,
Young's Literal Translation
And they journey from the Red Sea, and encamp in the wilderness of Sin;
Update Bible Version
And they journeyed from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
World English Bible
They journeyed from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
New King James Version
They moved from the Red Sea and camped in the Wilderness of Sin.
New Living Translation
They left the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Sin.
New Life Bible
They left the Red Sea and stayed in the Desert of Sin.
New Revised Standard
They set out from the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Sin.
Douay-Rheims Bible
They camped in the desert of Sin.
Revised Standard Version
And they set out from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They journeyed from the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Sin.

Contextual Overview

1 These, are the departures of the sons of Israel whereby they came forth out of the land of Egypt by their hosts, - in the hand of Moses and Aaron. 2 And Moses wrote their coming forth by their departures, at the bidding of Yahweh, - and these, are their departures by their comings forth. 3 So then they brake up from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month, on the morrow of the passover, came forth the sons of Israel with an uplifted hand, in the sight of all the Egyptians; 4 when the Egyptians, were burying them whom Yahweh had smitten among them, every firstborn, - when, upon their gods, Yahweh had executed judgments, 5 Thus then the sons of Israel brake up from Rameses, - and encamped in Succoth. 6 And they brake up from Succoth, - and encamped in Etham, which is at the edge of the desert. 7 And they brake up from Etham, and turned upon Pi-hahiroth, which is over against Baal-zephon, - and encamped before Migdol. 8 And they brake up from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea towards the desert, - and went their way a journey of three days in the desert of Etham, and encamped in Marah. 9 And they brake up from Marah, and came in towards Elim; there being, in Elim, twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm-tree, so they encamped there. 10 And they brake up from Elim, - and encamped by the Red Sea.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 30:43
Thus did the man break forth, exceedingly, - thus came he to have flocks in abundance, and maid-servants, and men-servants and camels and asses.
Genesis 33:5
Then lifted he up his eyes, and beheld the women and the children, and said What are these to thee? And he said - The children wherewith God hath favoured thy servant,
Genesis 33:6
Then came near the handmaids, they - and their children, - and bowed themselves.
Genesis 33:9
Then said Esau, I have an abundance, - my brother, be thine what thou hast!
Genesis 33:11
Take, I pray thee my blessing which hath been brought in to thee, because God hath shewed me favour and because I have everything. So he was urgent with him and he took it.
Genesis 33:12
Then he said, Let us break up and go, and let me go on before thee.
Genesis 33:13
And he said unto him, My lord, is taking note, that, the children are tender, - and the flocks and the herds are giving suck with me, - and, should I overdrive them a single day, then would all the flocks die.
Genesis 33:15
Then said Esau: Let me leave, I pray thee, along with thee, some of the people who are with me! And he said - Why so? let me find favour in the eyes of my lord!
Genesis 33:16
So Esau returned, that day, to his journey towards Mount Seir.
Genesis 33:20
And he set up there an altar, - and called it, El-elohe-Israel.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin. Sixteen miles from the Red sea, where they were last; see Exodus 16:1.

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. VII.

Verse Numbers 33:11. The wilderness of SIN.] This lies between Elim and Mount Sinai. Dr. Shaw and his companions traversed these plains in nine hours.


 
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