Exodus 13:20

And marching from Socoth they encamped in Etham in the utmost coasts of the wilderness.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

In Context

19And Moses took Joseph's bones with him: because he had adjured the children of Israel, saying: God shall visit you, carry out my bones from hence with you.

21And the Lord went before them to shew the way by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire: that he might be the guide of their journey at both times.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:37And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to Socoth, being about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.

Numbers 33:6And from Soccoth they came into Etham, which is in the uttermost borders of the wilderness.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 13:18-22

The Pillar of Fire and Fire. ( b. c. 1491.) 17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: 18 But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. 19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly… Read the whole commentary →

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