Exodus 16:1

And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
journey	וַיִּסְעוּ֙ vai.yis.'U	H5265	properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
Elim	מֵֽאֵילִ֔ם me.'ei.Lim	H362	Elim · preposition + proper noun, a place name
congregation	עֲדַ֤ת 'a.Dat	H5712	a stated assemblage (specifically · noun, common feminine singular construct
children	בְּנֵֽי be.nei-	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct
Israel	יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ Yis.ra.'El	H3478	Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
came	וַיָּבֹ֜אוּ vai.ya.Vo.'u	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
wilderness	מִדְבַּר mid.bar-	H4057	a pasture (i.e. open field · noun, common masculine singular construct
Sin	סִ֔ין Sin	H5512	Sin the name of an Egyptian town and (probably) desert… · proper noun, a place name
Elim	אֵילִ֖ם 'ei.Lim	H362	Elim · proper noun, a place name
Sinai	סִינָ֑י si.Nai	H5514	Sinai · proper noun, a place name
fifteenth	בַּחֲמִשָּׁ֨ה ba.cha.mi.Shah	H2568	five · preposition + cardinal number, both genders singular absolute
day	יוֹם֙ yOm	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
second	הַשֵּׁנִ֔י ha.she.Ni	H8145	properly · definite article + ordinal number, masculine singular absolute
month	לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ la.Cho.desh	H2320	the new moon · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
out	לְצֵאתָ֖ם le.tze.Tam	H3318	to go (causatively · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
land	מֵאֶ֥רֶץ me.'E.retz	H776	the earth (at large · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct
Egypt	מִצְרָֽיִם mitz.Ra.yim	H4714	Mitsrajim · proper noun, a place name

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Numbers 33:10-12 And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.
Exodus 15:27 And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
Exodus 17:1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment…
Ezekiel 30:15-16 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 16:1-12

The host of Israel, it seems, took along with them out of Egypt, when they came thence on the fifteenth day of the first month, a month's provisions, which, by the fifteenth day of the second month, was all spent; and here we have, I. Their discontent and murmuring upon that occasion, Exo 16:2, Exo 16:3. The whole congregation, the greatest part of them, joined in this mutiny; it was not immediately against God that they murmured, but (which was equivalent) against Moses and Aaron, God's viceregents among them. 1. They count upon being killed in the wilderness - nothing less, at the first appearance of disaster. If the Lord had been pleased to kill them, he could easily have done that in the…

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Adam Clarke on Exodus 16:1

The wilderness of Sin - This desert lies between Elim and Sinai, and from Elim, Dr. Shaw says, Mount Sinai can be seen distinctly. Mr. Ainsworth supposes that this wilderness had its name from a strong city of Egypt called Sin, near which it lay. See Eze 30:15, Eze 30:16. Before they came to the wilderness of Sin, they had a previous encampment by the Red Sea after they left Elim, of which Moses makes distinct mention Num 33:10, Num 33:11. The fifteenth day of the second month - This was afterwards called Ijar, and they had now left Egypt one month, during which It is probable they lived on the provisions they brought with them from Rameses, though it is possible they might have had a supply…

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John Gill on Exodus 16:1

And they took their journey from Elim,.... And came again to the Red sea, as appears from Numbers 33:10 perhaps to some bay or creek of it, which ran up from it, and lay in their way, and where for a short time they encamped to look at it, and recollect what had been done for them in bringing them through it; but as their stay here was short, and nothing of any importance or consequence happened, it is here omitted, and their next station is only observed: and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which still bears the same name, as a late traveller (a) informs us, who passed through it, and says, we traversed these plains in nine hours, being all t…

Dictionary and topics

Elim — Trees, (Ex. 15:27; Num. 33:9), the name of the second station where the Israelites encamped after crossing the Red Sea. It had “twelve wells of water and threescore and ten palm trees.” It has been…
Exodus — The great deliverance wrought for the children of Isreal when they were brought out of the land of Egypt with “a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm” (Ex 12:51; Deut. 26:8; Ps 114; 136), about…
Month — Among the Egyptians the month of thirty days each was in use long before the time of the Exodus, and formed the basis of their calculations. From the time of the institution of the Mosaic law the…
Sin — Is “any want of conformity unto or transgression of the law of God” (1 John 3:4; Rom. 4:15), in the inward state and habit of the soul, as well as in the outward conduct of the life, whether by…
Sin, Wilderness of — Lying between Elim and sinai (Ex. 16:1; comp. Num. 33:11, 12). This was probably the narrow plain of el-Markha, which stretches along the eastern shore of the Red Sea for several miles toward the…
Desert, Journey Of Israel Through The · Through the wilderness of Sin — Through the wilderness of Sin
Deserts · Mentioned in scripture: Sin — Mentioned in scripture: Sin
Sinai · .The people of Israel arrive at, in their wan — .The people of Israel arrive at, in their wan

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Exodus 16:1

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 16:1-12

Adam Clarke on Exodus 16:1

John Gill on Exodus 16:1

Dictionary and topics

Exodus 16:1

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 16:1-12

Adam Clarke on Exodus 16:1

John Gill on Exodus 16:1

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Exodus 16:1-8

Keil & Delitzsch on Exodus 16:1

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Exodus 16:1-36

Rashi on Exodus 16:1