Numbers 33:3

The Israelites left Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day after the Passover. They set out in triumph as all the Egyptians watched.

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In The King James Version

And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.

In Context

2Moses recorded the different parts of their journey as instructed by the Lord. These are the journeys they made listed in order from where they started:

4The Egyptians were burying all their firstborn that the Lord had killed, for the Lord had brought down his judgments on their gods.

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Cross References

Exodus 1:11So the Egyptians made them do forced labor and put taskmasters in charge of them. They used them to build the storage towns of Pithom and Rameses.

Exodus 12:37The Israelites set out on foot from Rameses for Succoth and numbered about 600,000 men, as well as women and children.

Exodus 14:8The Lord gave Pharaoh, king of Egypt, a stubborn attitude so he chased after the Israelites, who were leaving with their fists raised in triumph.

Isaiah 52:12But don't leave in a hurry, don't be in a rush as if you're running away, for the Lord will go ahead of you, and he will also protect those at the back.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 33:2-50

Encampments of the Israelites. ( b. c. 1452.) 1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron. 2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the Lord : and these are their journeys according to their goings out. 3 And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an… Read the whole commentary →

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