Numbers 33:5

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

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 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;