Numbers 33:13

13 left Dophkah and camped at Alush;

Numbers 33:13 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 33:13

And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
] The strong fort, as the Targum of Jonathan calls it; this was twelve miles from Dophkah: according to the Jewish chronology F4, this Alush is the wilderness of Sin, where the Israelites came on the fifteenth day of the seventh month from their going out of Egypt; and they say, that in Alush the sabbath was given them, and that there they kept the first sabbath, as it is said,

and the people rested on the seventh day,
( Exodus 16:30 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F4 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 5. p. 17.

Numbers 33:13 In-Context

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;
14 left Alush and camped at Rephidim where there was no water for the people to drink;
15 left Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai;
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