Numbers 33:5

5 So the people of Israel set out from Rameses and camped at ¹Succoth.

Numbers 33:5 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 33:5

And the children of Israel removed from Rameses
Or Pelusium, as the same Targum again:

and pitched in Succoth:
where, as the same paraphrase says, they were covered with the clouds of glory, suggesting that to be the reason of its name; but that was rather because of the booths or tents the Israelites erected, pitched, and dwelt in, during their abode there: this, according to Bunting ^F2, was eight miles from Rameses; according to whose computation, for want of a better guide, the distances of the several stations from each other will be given.

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 Travels of the Patriarchs p. 81.

Numbers 33:5 In-Context

3 They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover, the people of Israel went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians,

4 while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them. On their gods also the LORD executed judgments.

5 So the people of Israel set out from Rameses and camped at Succoth.

6 And they set out from Succoth and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.

7 And they set out from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which is east of Baal-zephon, and they camped before Migdol.

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 12:37