Numbers 33:3

3 On the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from Rameses. They marched out defiantly ^[a] in full view of all the Egyptians,

Numbers 33:3 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 33:3

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

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 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 the firstborn in Egypt, which made way for their departure the next morning; the Egyptians being urgent upon them to be gone:

the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all
the Egyptians;
openly and publicly, with great courage and boldness, without any fear of their enemies; who seeing them march out, had no power to stop them, or to move their lips at them, nay, were willing to be rid of them; see ( Exodus 11:7 ) ( 12:33 ) .

F1 Travels, p. 307. Ed. 2.

Numbers 33:3 In-Context

1 These are the journeys of the Israelites when they came out of the land of Egypt by their divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.

2 At the LORD’s command, Moses recorded the stages of their journey. These are the stages listed by their starting points:

3 On the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from Rameses. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,

4 who were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them; for the LORD had executed judgment against their gods.

5 The Israelites set out from Rameses and camped at Succoth.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or marched out boldly; literally marched out with an upraised hand