Numbers 33:3-13

3 They marched out of Rameses the day after the Passover. It was the fifteenth day of the first month. They marched out heads high and confident.

4 The Egyptians, busy burying their firstborn whom God had killed, watched them go. God had exposed the nonsense of their gods.

5 The People of Israel: left Rameses and camped at Succoth;

6 left Succoth and camped at Etham at the edge of the wilderness;

7 left Etham, circled back to Pi Hahiroth east of Baal Zephon, and camped near Migdol;

8 left Pi Hahiroth and crossed through the Sea into the wilderness; three days into the Wilderness of Etham they camped at Marah;

9 left Marah and came to Elim where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees; they camped there;

10 left Elim and camped by the Red Sea;

11 left the Red Sea and camped in the Wilderness of Sin;

12 left the Wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah;

13 left Dophkah and camped at Alush;

Numbers 33:3-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 33

This chapter gives an account of the journeys of the people of Israel, from their first coming out of Egypt, to their arrival in the plains of Moab by Jordan, and the names of the various stations where they rested are given, Nu 33:1-49 and they are ordered, when they passed over Jordan, to drive out the Canaanites, destroy their idols, and divide the land among their families in their several tribes, Nu 33:50-54 or otherwise it is threatened the Canaanites should be troublesome and vexatious to them, even those that remained; and it might be expected God would do to the Israelites as he thought to do to those nations, Nu 33:55,56.