Numbers 33:5

5 castrametati sunt in Soccoth

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 profecti igitur de Ramesse mense primo quintadecima die mensis primi altera die phase filii Israhel in manu excelsa videntibus cunctis Aegyptiis

4 et sepelientibus primogenitos quos percusserat Dominus nam et in diis eorum exercuerat ultionem

5 castrametati sunt in Soccoth

6 et de Soccoth venerunt in Aetham quae est in extremis finibus solitudinis

7 inde egressi venerunt contra Phiahiroth quae respicit Beelsephon et castrametati sunt ante Magdolum