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 an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
| Word | Hebrew | Strong’s | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| departed | וַיִּסְע֤וּ vai.yis.'U | H5265 | properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural |
| Rameses | מֵֽרַעְמְסֵס֙ me.ra'.me.Ses | H7486 | Rameses or Raamses · preposition + proper noun, a place name |
| first | הָֽרִאשׁ֔וֹן ha.ri.Shon | H7223 | first · definite article + ordinal number, masculine singular absolute |
| month | בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ ba.Cho.desh | H2320 | the new moon · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute |
| fifteenth | עָשָׂ֛ר 'a.Sar | H6240 | ten (only in combination) · cardinal number, both genders singular absolute |
| day | י֖וֹם Yom | H3117 | a day (as the warm hours) · noun, common masculine singular absolute |
| first | הָרִאשׁ֑וֹן ha.ri.Shon | H7223 | first · 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 |
| morrow | מִֽמָּחֳרַ֣ת mi.mo.cho.Rat | H4283 | the morrow or (adverbially) tomorrow · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct |
| passover | הַפֶּ֗סַח ha.Pe.sach | H6453 | a pretermission · definite article + noun, masculine singular absolute |
| children | בְנֵֽי ve.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 |
| out | יָצְא֤וּ ya.tze.'U | H3318 | to go (causatively · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural |
| high | רָמָ֔ה ra.Mah | H7311 | to be high actively · verb, qal active participle, feminine singular absolute |
| hand | בְּיָ֣ד be.Yad | H3027 | a hand (the open one (indicating power · preposition + noun, common both genders singular absolute |
| sight | לְעֵינֵ֖י le.'ei.Nei | H5869 | an eye (literally or figuratively) · preposition + noun, common feminine dual construct |
| Egyptians | מִצְרַיִם Mitsrayim | H4714 | Mitsrajim |
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Rameses--generally identified with Heroopoils, now the modern Abu-Keisheid (see on Exo 12:37), which was probably the capital of Goshen, and, by direction of Moses, the place of general rendezvous previous to their departure.
And they departed from Rameses,.... A city in Egypt, where the children of Israel, a little before their departure, seem to have been gathered together in a body, in order to march out all together, as they did. This place the Targum of Jonathan calls Pelusium. Dr. Shaw (a) thinks it might be Cairo, from whence they set forward; see Exodus 12:37 and it was in the first month; in the month Nisan, as the same Targum, or Abib, which was appointed the first month on this account, and answers to part of our March and April: on the fifteenth of the first month, on the morrow after the passover; that was kept on the fourteenth, when the Lord passed over the houses of the Israelites, and slew all…
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 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…
Yet let us first see when the children of Israel set out from Rameses. "In the first month," it says, "on the fifteenth day of the month." By the Lord's command they had kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month in Egypt, slaughtering the lamb on the day before they set out, and in a certain sense they kept the beginning of the festival while still situated in Egypt. On the following day, then, which is the first day of unleavened bread, on the fifteenth day of the first month, they set out from Rameses and come to Succoth, that they might there keep the day of the festival of unleavened bread. "Who is wise, and shall understand these things? Prudent, and shall know them?" — nay rather, who is there who knows even these things in part, as the Apostle says: "We know in part, and we prophesy in part"? Who understands how we too keep festal days in part, so that "no one may judge us in respect of a portion of a feast day, or of a new moon, or of a sabbath"? For every feast day that is kept on earth by men is kept in part, not in whole nor with the full and perfect title of festivity; but when you have gone out of that Egypt, then there will be for you a perfect festivity, then you will attend to the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth unto perfection, then you will keep the day of Pentecost in the wilderness, and then perhaps for the first time you will receive the heavenly food of manna, and you will keep each of the several festivities of which we have already spoken above, as far as we were able. Yet know that after that Passover which was made in Egypt, we find the Passover observed once in the desert, when the law was given, and another, as we have noted, in Numbers, and after these it is nowhere kept, save in the land of promise. Therefore, on the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day following the Passover, which is the first day of unleavened bread, the children of Israel set out from Rameses "with a lofty hand," it says, "in the sight of all the Egyptians." What is the lofty hand? For elsewhere too it says: "Let your hand be exalted." Where there is no human work nor earthly, but it is divine, there it is called a lofty hand. For it has already often been said that by "hand" a work is understood. "With a lofty hand," therefore, "in the sight of all the Egyptians" they set out.
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left defiantly: See Exod 14:8.
אלה 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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