Numbers 33:16

16 And they removed from the Desert of Sinai and pitched at Kibrothhattaavah [that is, The graves of lust].

Numbers 33:16 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 33:16

And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at
Kibrothhattaavah.
] Eight miles from the desert of Sinai; here the people lusted after flesh, and murmured, which, though given them, a pestilence came and destroyed many of them, and here they were buried, whence the place was so called, which signifies the "graves of lust", i.e. of those that lusted: no mention is made of Taberah, either because it was the same with Kibroth, or near it; or, as Aben Ezra on ( Deuteronomy 9:22 ) says, they encamped there but one day, and so is not mentioned in the journeys, though it was one of the three they journeyed from Mount Sinai to Kibrothhattaavah, see ( Numbers 11:1-3 Numbers 11:34 Numbers 11:35 ) .

Numbers 33:16 In-Context

14 And they removed from Alush and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
15 And they departed from Rephidim and pitched camp in the Wilderness of Sinai.
16 And they removed from the Desert of Sinai and pitched at Kibrothhattaavah [that is, The graves of lust].
17 And they departed from Kibrothhattaavah and encamped at Hazeroth.
18 And they departed from Hazeroth and pitched in Rithmah.
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