And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
| Word | Hebrew | Strong’s | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| journey | וַיִּסְע֖וּ vai.yis.'U | H5265 | properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural |
| wilderness | מִמִּדְבַּר mi.mid.bar- | H4057 | a pasture (i.e. open field · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct |
| Sin | סִ֑ין Sin | H5512 | Sin the name of an Egyptian town and (probably) desert… · proper noun, a place name |
| encamped | וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ vai.ya.cha.Nu | H2583 | properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural |
| Dophkah | בְּדָפְקָֽה be.da.fe.Kah | H1850 | Dophkah · preposition + proper noun, a place name |
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Dophkah . . . Alush . . . Rephidim--These three stations, in the great valleys of El Sheikh and Feiran, would be equivalent to four days' journey for such a host. Rephidim (Exo 17:6) was in Horeb, the burnt region--a generic name for a hot, mountainous country. [See on Exo 17:1.]
And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin,.... According to the account in Exodus, this was after they had the manna given them, see Exodus 17:1. and encamped at Dophkah; twelve miles from the wilderness of Sin; and of this, and the next encampment, no mention is made in Exodus.
Numbers 33:1-56 1. These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies, under the hand of Moses and Aaron. 1. Istae sunt profectiones filiorum Israel, qui egressi sunt e terra Egypti, per exercitus suos, per manum Mosis et Aharon. 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. 2. Scripsit autem Moses egressus eorum per profectiones eorum juxta sermonem Jehovae: istae, inquam, sunt profectiones eorum per egressus eorum. 3. And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the mo…
Read the whole note in the consoleAs the Israelites had ended their wanderings through the desert, when they arrived in the steppes of Moab by the Jordan opposite to Jericho (Num 22:1), and as they began to take possession when the conquered land beyond Jordan was portioned out (ch. 32), the history of the desert wandering closes with a list of the stations which they had left behind them. This list was written out by Moses "at the command of Jehovah" (Num 33:2), as a permanent memorial for after ages, as every station which Israel left behind on the journey from Egypt to Canaan "through the great and terrible desert," was a memorial of the grace and faithfulness with which the Lord led His people safely "in the desert land…
Setting out from the desert of Zin they came to Rithmah. Rithmah is interpreted as "health." You see the order of the journeyings, how, when the soul has now become spiritual and has begun to have discernment of heavenly visions, it arrives at health, so that it may deservedly say: "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me his holy name." What Lord? "Who heals," he says, "all your infirmities, who redeems your life from destruction." For there are many infirmities of the soul: avarice is an infirmity of it, and indeed the worst; pride, anger, boasting, cowardice, inconstancy, faint-heartedness, and things like these. When will you, Lord Jesus, cure me of all these infirmities? When will you heal me, so that I too may say: "Bless the Lord, O my soul, who heals all your infirmities," so that I too may be able to make my station in Rithmah, which is "health"? It would be a long task, if we wished to go through the individual stations and to open up from each one whatever things are suggested by the contemplation of the names; nevertheless we will run through them tightly and briefly, so that we may furnish you not so much a full exposition — since the time by no means allows it — as occasions for understanding.
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Elim remains impossible to identify with certainty, but it may have been the oasis (with springs and palm trees) at Wadi Gharandel.
ומצרים מקברים AND THIS EGYPTIANS WERE BURYING [ALL THEIR FIRSTBORN] — they were busily occupied in their mourning.
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