Numbers 33:5

5 Then the children of Israel moved from 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 departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians.

4 For the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had killed among them. Also on their gods the Lord had executed judgments.

5 Then the children of Israel moved from Rameses and camped at Succoth.

6 They departed from Succoth and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.

7 They moved from Etham and turned back to Pi Hahiroth, which is east of Baal Zephon; and they camped near Migdol.