Lectionary Calendar
Thursday, April 9th, 2026
Thursday in Easter Week
Attention!
StudyLight.org has pledged to help build churches in Uganda. Help us with that pledge and support pastors in the heart of Africa.
Click here to join the effort!

Read the Bible

Young's Literal Translation

Numbers 33:15

And they journey from Rephidim, and encamp in the wilderness of Sinai;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Israel;   Rephidim;   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 - Rephidim;   Wandering;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Number;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Numbers, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Rephidim ;   Wanderings of the Israelites;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Rimmonparez;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Horeb;   Paran;   Rephidim;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
They journeyed from Refidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
King James Version
And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
Lexham English Bible
They set out from Rephidim and camped in the desert of Sinai.
English Standard Version
And they set out from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.
New Century Version
They left Rephidim and camped in the Desert of Sinai.
New English Translation
They traveled from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.
Amplified Bible
They moved out from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai [where they remained for about a year].
New American Standard Bible
And they journeyed from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wildernesse of Sinai.
Legacy Standard Bible
They journeyed from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.
Contemporary English Version
They left Rephidim and finally reached the Sinai Desert.
Complete Jewish Bible
They moved on from Refidim and camped in the Sinai Desert.
Darby Translation
And they removed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
Easy-to-Read Version
They left Rephidim and camped in the desert of Sinai.
George Lamsa Translation
And they departed from Rephidim and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
Good News Translation
From Rephidim to Mount Hor they set up camp at the following places: the Sinai Desert, Kibroth Hattaavah (or "Graves of Craving"), Hazeroth, Rithmah, Rimmon Perez, Libnah, Rissah, Kehelathah, Mount Shepher, Haradah, Makheloth, Tahath, Terah, Mithkah, Hashmonah, Moseroth, Bene Jaakan, Hor Haggidgad, Jotbathah, Abronah, Eziongeber, the wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh), and Mount Hor, at the edge of the land of Edom.
Christian Standard Bible®
They traveled from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Literal Translation
And they pulled up stakes from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
From Raphidim they departed and pitched in the wildernes of Sinai.
American Standard Version
And they journeyed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
Bible in Basic English
And they went on from Rephidim, and put up their tents in the waste land of Sinai.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they departed from Raphidim, & pitched in the wildernesse of Sinai.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they journeyed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
King James Version (1611)
And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wildernesse of Sinai.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they departed from Raphidin, and encamped in the wilderness of Sina.
English Revised Version
And they journeyed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
Berean Standard Bible
They set out from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei yeden forth fro Raphidyn, and settiden tentis in the deseert of Synai.
Update Bible Version
And they journeyed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they departed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
World English Bible
They journeyed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
New King James Version
They departed from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.
New Living Translation
They left Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.
New Life Bible
They went from Rephidim and stayed in the Desert of Sinai.
New Revised Standard
They set out from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they brake up from Rephidim, - and encamped in the desert of Sinai.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And departing from Raphidim, they camped in the desert of Sinai.
Revised Standard Version
And they set out from Reph'idim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They journeyed from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.

Contextual Overview

1 These [are] journeys of the sons of Israel who have come out of the land of Egypt, by their hosts, by the hand of Moses and Aaron; 2 and Moses writeth their outgoings, by their journeys, by the command of Jehovah; and these [are] their journeys, by their outgoings: 3 And they journey from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month, on the morrow of the passover have the sons of Israel gone out with a high hand, before the eyes of all the Egyptians -- 4 and the Egyptians are burying those whom Jehovah hath smitten among them, every first-born, and on their gods hath Jehovah done judgments -- 5 and the sons of Israel journey from Rameses, and encamp in Succoth. 6 And they journey from Succoth, and encamp in Etham, which [is] in the extremity of the wilderness; 7 and they journey from Etham, and turn back on Pi-Hahiroth, which [is] on the front of Baal-Zephon, and they encamp before Migdol. 8 And they journey from Pi-Hahiroth, and pass over through the midst of the sea, into the wilderness, and go a journey of three days in the wilderness of Etham, and encamp in Marah. 9 And they journey from Marah, and come in to Elim, and in Elim [are] twelve fountains of waters, and seventy palm trees, and they encamp there; 10 and they journey from Elim, and encamp by the Red Sea.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 16:1, Exodus 19:1, Exodus 19:2

Reciprocal: Numbers 10:12 - out of the

Cross-References

Genesis 34:11
And Shechem saith unto her father, and unto her brethren, `Let me find grace in your eyes, and that which ye say unto me, I give;
Genesis 47:25
And they say, `Thou hast revived us; we find grace in the eyes of my lord, and have been servants to Pharaoh;'
Ruth 2:13
And she saith, `Let me find grace in thine eyes, my lord, because thou hast comforted me, and because thou hast spoken unto the heart of thy maid-servant, and I -- I am not as one of thy maid-servants.'
1 Samuel 25:8
`Ask thy young men, and they declare to thee, and the young men find grace in thine eyes, for on a good day we have come; give, I pray thee, that which thy hand findeth, to thy servants, and to thy son, to David.'
2 Samuel 16:4
And the king saith to Ziba, `Lo, thine [are] all that Mephibosheth hath;' and Ziba saith, `I have bowed myself -- I find grace in thine eyes, my lord, O king.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai. Eight miles from Rephidim; and from a mount of this name here were given the decalogue, with all other statutes and ordinances, judicial and ceremonial, and orders and directions for building the tabernacle, and making all the vessels appertaining to it, and which were all made during their stay here.

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. XI.

Verse Numbers 33:15. The WILDERNESS of SINAI.] Somewhere northward of Mount Sinai, on the straight road to the promised land, to which they now directed their course.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile