Numbers 33:23

Revised Standard Version

And they set out from Kehela'thah, and encamped at Mount Shepher.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
They journeyed from Kehelatah, and encamped in Mount Shefer.

King James Version
And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.

Lexham English Bible
They set out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shapher.

English Standard Version
And they set out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

New Century Version
They left Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

New English Translation
They traveled from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

Amplified Bible
They moved out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

New American Standard Bible
They journeyed from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.

Legacy Standard Bible
They journeyed from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

Complete Jewish Bible
They moved on from K'helah and camped at Mount Shefer.

Darby Translation
And they removed from Kehelathah, and encamped in mount Shapher.

Easy-to-Read Version
They left Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

George Lamsa Translation
And they departed from Kehlat, and encamped at mount Shapher.

Christian Standard Bible®
They traveled from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

Literal Translation
And they pulled up stakes from the Meeting Place and camped in Mount Shapher.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Fro Kehelatha they departed, & pitched in mout Sapher.

American Standard Version
And they journeyed from Kehelathah, and encamped in mount Shepher.

Bible in Basic English
And they went on from Kehelathah, and put up their tents in Mount Shepher.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they went from Kehelatha, and pitched in mount Sepher.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they journeyed from Kehelah, and pitched in mount Shepher.

King James Version (1611)
And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they departed from Makellath, and encamped in Saphar.

English Revised Version
And they journeyed from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shepher.

Berean Standard Bible
They set out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
fro whennus thei yeden forth, and settiden tentis in the hil of Sepher.

Young's Literal Translation
And they journey from Kehelathah, and encamp in mount Shapher;

Update Bible Version
And they journeyed from Kehelathah, and encamped in mount Shepher.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they went from Kehelathah, and encamped in mount Shapher.

World English Bible
They journeyed from Kehelathah, and encamped in Mount Shepher.

New King James Version
They went from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

New Living Translation
They left Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

New Life Bible
They went from Kehelathah and stayed at Mount Shepher.

New Revised Standard
They set out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they brake up from Kehelathah, - and encamped in Mount Shepher.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they removed from thence and camped in the mountain Sepher.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They journeyed from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

Contextual Overview

¹ These are the stages of the people of Israel, when they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the leadership of Moses and Aaron. ² Moses wrote down their starting places, stage by stage, by command of the LORD; and these are their stages according to their starting places. ³ They set out from Ram'eses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the passover the people of Israel went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians, ⁴ while the Egyptians were burying all their first-born, whom the LORD had struck down among them; upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments. ⁵ So the people of Israel set out from Ram'eses, and encamped at Succoth. ⁶ And they set out from Succoth, and encamped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness. ⁷ And they set out from Etham, and turned back to Pi-hahi'roth, which is east of Ba'al-ze'phon; and they encamped before Migdol. ⁸ And they set out from before Hahi'roth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and they went a three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped at Marah. ⁹ And they set out from Marah, and came to Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there. ¹⁰ And they set out from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.

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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. XIX.

Verse Numbers 33:23. SHAPHER.] Where this mountain lay cannot be determined.