Numbers 33:3
On the fifteenth day of the first month of the year, the day after we celebrated the ◄Passover/the time when Yahweh killed all the firstborn sons of the people of Egypt►, they/we left Rameses city in Egypt and marched boldly while the Egyptian army was coming behind them/us.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
2Yahweh commanded Moses/me to write down the names of the places where they/we went.
Cross References
Exodus 1:11So the king and his officials put supervisors over the Israeli people to cause them to suffer very much by forcing them to work very hard. They forced the Israeli people to build two cities, Pithom and Ramses, in which to store supplies for the king/government.
Exodus 12:37The Israeli people traveled from Rameses city to Succoth town. There were about 600,000 men who went, in addition to the women and children.
Exodus 14:8Because Yahweh made the king of Egypt so stubborn that he and his army went to pursue the Israelis, who were leaving triumphantly,
Isaiah 52:12But it will not be necessary for you to leave suddenly, to flee in panic, because Yahweh will ◄go in front of/lead► you; and he will also protect you from being attacked at the rear while you travel.
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 →