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Webster's Bible Translation

Numbers 33:13

And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Alush;   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 - Alush;   Wandering;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Number;   Rephidim;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Alush;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Numbers, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Alush ;   Dophkah ;   Wanderings of the Israelites;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Rimmonparez;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Paran;   Smith Bible Dictionary - A'lush;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
They journeyed from Dofka, and encamped in Alush.
King James Version
And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
Lexham English Bible
They set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
English Standard Version
And they set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
New Century Version
They left Dophkah and camped at Alush.
New English Translation
And they traveled from Dophkah, and camped in Alush.
Amplified Bible
They moved out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
New American Standard Bible
They journeyed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they departed from Dophkah, and lay in Alush.
Legacy Standard Bible
They journeyed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
Complete Jewish Bible
They moved on from Dofkah and camped at Alush.
Darby Translation
And they removed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
Easy-to-Read Version
They left Dophkah and camped at Alush.
George Lamsa Translation
And they departed from Raphka and encamped in Alush.
Good News Translation
and after that at Alush.
Christian Standard Bible®
They traveled from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
Literal Translation
And they pulled up stakes from Dophkah and camped in Alush.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Fro Daphka they departed, and pitched in Alus.
American Standard Version
And they journeyed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
Bible in Basic English
And they went on from Dophkah, and put up their tents in Alush.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they departed from Daphka, and lay in Alus.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they journeyed from Dophkah, and pitched in Alush.
King James Version (1611)
And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they departed from Raphaca, and encamped in Ælus.
English Revised Version
And they journeyed from Dophkah, and pitched in Alush.
Berean Standard Bible
They set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei yeden forth fro Depheca, and settiden tentis in Haluys.
Young's Literal Translation
And they journey from Dophkah, and encamp in Alush;
Update Bible Version
And they journeyed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
World English Bible
They journeyed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
New King James Version
They departed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
New Living Translation
They left Dophkah and camped at Alush.
New Life Bible
Then they left Dophkah and stayed at Alush.
New Revised Standard
They set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they brake up from Dophkah, - and encamped in Alush.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And departing from Daphca, they camped in Alus.
Revised Standard Version
And they set out from Dophkah, and encamped at Alush.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They journeyed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.

Contextual Overview

1 These [are] the journeys of the children of Israel, who went forth from the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron. 2 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. 3 And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians. 4 For the Egyptians buried all [their] first-born, whom the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments. 5 And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth. 6 And they departed from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which [is] in the edge of the wilderness. 7 And they removed from Etham, and turned again to Pi-hahiroth, which [is] before Baal-zephon: and they encamped before Migdol. 8 And they departed from before Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah. 9 And they removed from Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim [were] twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm-trees; and they encamped there. 10 And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 33:15
And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee [some] of the people that [are] with me: And he said, What needeth it? Let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
Genesis 33:16
So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
Genesis 33:17
And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
1 Chronicles 22:5
And David said, Solomon my son [is] young and tender, and the house [that is] to be built for the LORD [must be] very magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will [therefore] now make preparation for it. So David made abundant preparation before his death.
Proverbs 12:10
A righteous [man] regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked [are] cruel.
Isaiah 40:11
He will feed his flock like a shepherd: he will gather the lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in his bosom, [and] will gently lead those that are with young.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush. The strong fort, as the Targum of Jonathan calls it; this was twelve miles from Dophkah: according to the Jewish chronology d, this Alush is the wilderness of Sin, where the Israelites came on the fifteenth day of the seventh month from their going out of Egypt; and they say, that in Alush the sabbath was given them, and that there they kept the first sabbath, as it is said,

and the people rested on the seventh day, Exodus 16:30.

d Seder Olam Rabba, c. 5. p. 17.

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. IX.

Verse Numbers 33:13. ALUSH.] Neither is this mentioned in Exodus and its situation is equally unknown.


 
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