Numbers 33:4
As they/we left, the people of Egypt were still burying the bodies of their firstborn sons. By killing them, Yahweh showed that the gods that the people of Egypt worshiped were false gods.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
5After leaving Rameses, they/we first went to Succoth and set up their/our tents there.
Cross References
Exodus 12:12On that night I will go through all the country of Egypt, and I will kill all the oldest males in Egypt, both humans and animals. By doing this I will show that all the gods in Egypt are worthless. I can do this, because I am Yahweh, the all-powerful God.
Exodus 18:11Now I realize that Yahweh is greater than all other gods, because he rescued you all from the power [MTY] of the proud Egyptians when they were causing you to suffer.”
Psalms 105:36Then Yahweh killed the oldest son in every house of the people of Egypt [DOU].
Zephaniah 2:11Yahweh will cause them to be terrified when he destroys all the gods of their countries. Then even the people who live on islands throughout the world will worship Yahweh, each in their own countries.
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 →