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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Numbers 33:21

And they brake up from Libnah, - and encamped in Rissah.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Camp, Encampments;   Exodus;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Tabernacle;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Libnah;   Rissah;   Wandering;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Kadesh Barnea;   Kehelathah;   Number;   Numbers, the Book of;   Rissah;   Wilderness of the Wanderings;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Rissah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Numbers, Book of;   Rissah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Libnah ;   Rissah ;   Wanderings of the Israelites;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Rissah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Libnah;   Paran;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Lib'nah;   Riu'sah;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
They journeyed from Livna, and encamped in Rissah.
King James Version
And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah.
Lexham English Bible
They set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
English Standard Version
And they set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
New Century Version
They left Libnah and camped at Rissah.
New English Translation
They traveled from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
Amplified Bible
They moved out from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
New American Standard Bible
They journeyed from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they remoued from Libnah, and pitched in Rissah.
Legacy Standard Bible
They journeyed from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
Complete Jewish Bible
They moved on from Livnah and camped at Rissah.
Darby Translation
And they removed from Libnah, and encamped at Rissah.
Easy-to-Read Version
They left Libnah and camped at Rissah.
George Lamsa Translation
And they departed from Libnah, and encamped at Rissah.
Christian Standard Bible®
They traveled from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
Literal Translation
And they pulled up stakes from Libnah and camped in Rissah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
From Libna they departed, and pitched in Rissa.
American Standard Version
And they journeyed from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah.
Bible in Basic English
And they went on from Libnah, and put up their tents in Rissah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they remoued from Libna, and pitched at Rissa.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they journeyed from Libnah, and pitched in Rissah.
King James Version (1611)
And they remoued from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they departed from Lebona, and encamped in Ressan.
English Revised Version
And they journeyed from Libnah, and pitched in Rissah.
Berean Standard Bible
They set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And fro Lemphna thei settiden tentis in Ressa.
Young's Literal Translation
And they journey from Libnah, and encamp in Rissah;
Update Bible Version
And they journeyed from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they removed from Libnah, and encamped at Rissah.
World English Bible
They journeyed from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah.
New King James Version
They moved from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
New Living Translation
They left Libnah and camped at Rissah.
New Life Bible
They left Libnah, and stayed at Rissah.
New Revised Standard
They set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Removing from Lebna they camped in Ressa.
Revised Standard Version
And they set out from Libnah, and encamped at Rissah.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They journeyed from Libnah and camped at Rissah.

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
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Libnah: Deuteronomy 1:1, Laban

Rissah: This is supposed, apparently with good reason, by the Editor of Calmet, to be the same with the present El Arish, a village three quarters of a league from the Mediterranean, and the last stage in Syria, on the road to Egypt.

Reciprocal: Isaiah 37:8 - Rabshakeh

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. XVII.

Verse Numbers 33:21. RISSAH.] A place mentioned nowhere else in the sacred writings. Its situation utterly uncertain.


 
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