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.
| Word | Hebrew | Strong’s | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moses | מֹשֶׁ֜ה mo.Sheh | H4872 | Mosheh · proper noun, a man's name |
| wrote | וַיִּכְתֹּ֨ב vai.yikh.To | H3789 | to grave · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular |
| out | מוֹצָאֵיהֶ֛ם mo.tza.'ei.Hem | H4161 | a going forth · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural |
| journeys | לְמַסְעֵיהֶ֖ם le.mas.'ei.Hem | H4550 | a departure (from striking the tents) · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural |
| commandment | פִּ֣י pi | H6310 | the mouth (as the means of blowing) · noun, common masculine singular construct |
| LORD | יְהוָ֑ה Yah.weh | H3068 | Jehovah · proper noun, a title |
| journeys | מַסְעֵיהֶ֖ם mas.'ei.Hem | H4550 | a departure (from striking the tents) · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural |
| out | לְמוֹצָאֵיהֶֽם le.mo.tza.'ei.Hem | H4161 | a going forth · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural |
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Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the Lord--The wisdom of this divine order is seen in the importance of the end to which it was subservient--namely, partly to establish the truth of the history, partly to preserve a memorial of God's marvellous interpositions on behalf of Israel, and partly to confirm their faith in the prospect of the difficult enterprise on which they were entering, the invasion of Canaan.
And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys, by the commandment of the Lord,.... Which may be understood, either that their journeys were by the commandment of the Lord; so Aben Ezra takes the connection to be, and which is undoubtedly true, and which is expressed plainly elsewhere; for so it was, that when the cloud abode on the tabernacle they rested, and had their stations, and continued as long as the cloud tarried on it, and when that was taken up, then they marched; and thus at the commandment of the Lord they rested, and at the commandment of the Lord they journeyed, see Numbers 9:17 or that Moses wrote the account of their journeys, and several stations, at the comma…
Read the whole note in the consoleNumbers 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 consoleAnd Moses wrote down, it says, their completions and their stations by the word of the Lord. He wrote these things, therefore, by the word of the Lord, so that we, reading and seeing how many departures and how many stations lie ahead of us for the journey that leads to the kingdom, might prepare ourselves for this way; and, considering the road that lies before us, might not allow the time of our life to be consumed sluggishly or slackly, lest perchance, while we linger among the vanities of this world and take delight in each and every thing that comes to sight or hearing, or even to touch and smell and taste, the days slip away, the time passes by, and we fail to accomplish the traversing of the whole span of the journey before us, and we give out midway, and there befall us that which is reported of certain ones who could not arrive, but whose limbs fell in the desert. We are on a journey, therefore, and we have come into this world for this purpose: that we might pass from virtue to virtue, not that we might remain on the earth for the sake of earthly things, like that man too who said, "I will pull down my barns and build others larger, and I will say to my soul: Soul, you have many good things laid up for many years; eat, drink, be merry" — lest perchance the Lord say to us also, as to him: "You fool, this night your soul shall be taken from you." He did not say "in this day," but "in this night." For here too a man is destroyed in the night, like the firstborn of the Egyptians, as one who has loved the world and its darkness and has been a partaker of the rulers of this world of this darkness. And this world is called darkness and night on account of those who live in ignorance and do not receive the light of truth. But such as these do not set out from Rameses nor cross over to Succoth.
Now let us come to the beginning of the very reading that was recited, so that with the Lord's help we may be able, even if not with perfect clarity, yet at least in summary, to gather and explain their meaning. He says, then: "And these are the stages of the children of Israel, from the time they went out of the land of Egypt with their power by the hand of Moses and Aaron. And Moses wrote down their settings-out and their stages by the word of the Lord," and so forth. You have heard that Moses wrote these things by the word of the Lord. And why did the Lord will these things to be written? That this writing of the stages which the children of Israel made might be of some profit to us, or that it might be of no profit? And who would dare to say that the things which are written by the word of the Lord have no usefulness and confer nothing of salvation, but merely narrate an event that happened — one that indeed passed by at that time, and from the report of which nothing now reaches us? This opinion is impious and foreign to the catholic faith, and belongs only to those who deny that the one sole wise God, of the law and of the gospels, is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. What, therefore, the faithful understanding ought to perceive from these stages, let us attempt to treat in summary, as far as the time allows. In the earlier discussion, when the departure of the children of Israel from Egypt had furnished us with occasion to speak of it, we said that each person can be seen to go out spiritually from Egypt in two ways: either when, forsaking the life of the Gentiles, we come to the knowledge of the divine law, or when the soul departs from the dwelling of this body. To both, then, do these stages look which Moses now describes by the word of the Lord. For concerning those stages which the soul, stripped of the body — nay rather, clothed again with its own body — is to inhabit, the Lord declared in the gospel, saying: "There are many mansions with the Father; otherwise I would have told you: I go and prepare a mansion for you." There are, then, those many mansions which lead to the Father, in each of which what cause, what usefulness the soul's lingering receives, or what instruction or illumination, He alone knows, the Father of the age to come, who says of Himself: "I am the door; no one comes to the Father except through me." He, perhaps, in each…
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As 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…
This review of the entire wilderness period contains the longest integrated list of place-names in the Old Testament, from Israel’s departure from Egypt (33:3; cp. Exod 12:37) until their arrival in the plains of Moab, opposite Jericho (Num 33:49; cp. 22:1). The forty-two way stations on this itinerary represent far more than a geographical journey; they recall Israel’s forty-year spiritual pilgrimage. In their travels between Rameses in Egypt (33:3) and AcaciaAbel-shittim on the plains of Moab (33:49), Israel finally became the people who could invade the land of Canaan and claim the promises God made to Abraham. • This itinerary does not provide enough data to plot an accurate, specific ro…
Read the whole note in the consoleאלה מסעי THESE ARE THE JOURNEYS (STAGES) [OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL] — Why are these stations recorded here? In order to make known the loving acts of the Omnipresent: that although He had decreed against them to make them move about and wander in the wilderness, you should not think that they wandered and moved about without cessation from one station to another station all the forty years, and that they had no rest, for you see that there are here only forty-two stages. Deduct from them fourteen, all of which were their stopping places in the first year after they left Egypt, before the decree was made, viz., from the time when they journeyed from Rameses until when they came to Rithmah wh…
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