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JPS Old Testament

Numbers 33:13

And they journeyed from Dophkah, and pitched in Alush.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Alush;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Camp, Encampments;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Tabernacle;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Alush;   Wandering;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Number;   Rephidim;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Alush;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Numbers, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Alush ;   Dophkah ;   Wanderings of the Israelites;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Rimmonparez;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Paran;   Smith Bible Dictionary - A'lush;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Alush;   Dophkah;   Numbers, Book of;   Wanderings of Israel;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Alush;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Scroll of the Law;   Sidra;   Wilderness, Wanderings in the;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
They journeyed from Dofka, and encamped in Alush.
King James Version
And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
Lexham English Bible
They set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
English Standard Version
And they set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
New Century Version
They left Dophkah and camped at Alush.
New English Translation
And they traveled from Dophkah, and camped in Alush.
Amplified Bible
They moved out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
New American Standard Bible
They journeyed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they departed from Dophkah, and lay in Alush.
Legacy Standard Bible
They journeyed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
Complete Jewish Bible
They moved on from Dofkah and camped at Alush.
Darby Translation
And they removed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
Easy-to-Read Version
They left Dophkah and camped at Alush.
George Lamsa Translation
And they departed from Raphka and encamped in Alush.
Good News Translation
and after that at Alush.
Christian Standard Bible®
They traveled from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
Literal Translation
And they pulled up stakes from Dophkah and camped in Alush.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Fro Daphka they departed, and pitched in Alus.
American Standard Version
And they journeyed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
Bible in Basic English
And they went on from Dophkah, and put up their tents in Alush.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they departed from Daphka, and lay in Alus.
King James Version (1611)
And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they departed from Raphaca, and encamped in Ælus.
English Revised Version
And they journeyed from Dophkah, and pitched in Alush.
Berean Standard Bible
They set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei yeden forth fro Depheca, and settiden tentis in Haluys.
Young's Literal Translation
And they journey from Dophkah, and encamp in Alush;
Update Bible Version
And they journeyed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
World English Bible
They journeyed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
New King James Version
They departed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
New Living Translation
They left Dophkah and camped at Alush.
New Life Bible
Then they left Dophkah and stayed at Alush.
New Revised Standard
They set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they brake up from Dophkah, - and encamped in Alush.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And departing from Daphca, they camped in Alus.
Revised Standard Version
And they set out from Dophkah, and encamped at Alush.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They journeyed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.

Contextual Overview

1 These are the stages of the children of Israel, by which they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the hand of Moses and Aaron. 2 And Moses wrote their goings forth, stage by stage, by the commandment of the LORD; and these are their stages at their goings forth. 3 And they journeyed 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 a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians, 4 while the Egyptians were burying them that the LORD had smitten among them, even all their first-born; upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments. 5 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth. 6 And they journeyed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. 7 And they journeyed from Etham, and turned back unto Pihahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon; and they pitched before Migdol. 8 And they journeyed from Penehahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness; and they went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah. 9 And they journeyed from Marah, and came unto Elim; and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and threescore and ten palm-trees; and they pitched there. 10 And they journeyed from Elim, and pitched by the Red Sea.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 33:15
And Esau said: 'Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me.' And he said: 'What needeth it? let me find favour in the sight of my lord.'
Genesis 33:16
So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
Genesis 33:17
And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
1 Chronicles 22:5
And David said: 'Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries; I will therefore make preparation for him.' So David prepared abundantly before his death.
Proverbs 12:10
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Isaiah 40:11
Even as a shepherd that feedeth his flock, that gathereth the lambs in his arm, and carrieth them in his bosom, and gently leadeth those that give suck.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush. The strong fort, as the Targum of Jonathan calls it; this was twelve miles from Dophkah: according to the Jewish chronology d, this Alush is the wilderness of Sin, where the Israelites came on the fifteenth day of the seventh month from their going out of Egypt; and they say, that in Alush the sabbath was given them, and that there they kept the first sabbath, as it is said,

and the people rested on the seventh day, Exodus 16:30.

d Seder Olam Rabba, c. 5. p. 17.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This list was written out by Moses at God’s command Numbers 33:2, doubtless as a memorial of God’s providential care for His people throughout this long and trying period.

Numbers 33:3-6. For these places, see the marginal reference.

Numbers 33:8

Pi-hahiroth - Hebrew “Hahiroth,” but perhaps only by an error of transcription. However, the omitted “pi” is only a common Egyptian prefix.

Wilderness of Etham - i. e., that part of the great wilderness of Shur which adjoined Etham; compare Exodus 15:22 note.

The list of stations up to that at Sinai agrees with the narrative of Exodus except that we have here mentioned Numbers 33:10 an encampment by the Red Sea, and two others, Dophkah and Alush Numbers 33:12-14, which are there omitted. On these places see Exodus 17:1 note.

Numbers 33:16, Numbers 33:17

See the Numbers 11:35 note.

Numbers 33:18

Rithmah - The name of this station is derived from retem, the broom-plant, the “juniper” of the King James Version. This must be the same encampment as that which is said in Numbers 13:26 to have been at Kadesh.

Numbers 33:19

Rimmon-parez - Or rather Rimmon-perez, i. e., “Rimmon (i. e., the Pomegranate) of the Breach.” It may have been here that the sedition of Korah occurred.

Verse 19-36

The stations named are those visited during the years of penal wandering. The determination of their positions is, in many cases, difficult, because during this period there was no definite line of march pursued. But it is probable that the Israelites during this period did not overstep the boundaries of the wilderness of Paran (as defined in Numbers 10:12), except to pass along the adjoining valley of the Arabah; while the tabernacle and organized camp moved about from place to place among them (compare Numbers 20:1).

Rissah, Haradah, and Tahath are probably the same as Rasa, Aradeh, and Elthi of the Roman tables. The position of Hashmonah (Heshmon in Joshua 15:27) in the Azazimeh mountains points out the road followed by the children of Israel to be that which skirts the southwestern extremity of Jebel Magrah.

Numbers 33:34

Ebronah - i. e, “passage.” This station apparently lay on the shore of the Elanitic gulf, at a point where the ebb of the tide left a ford across. Hence, the later Targum renders the word as “fords.”

Numbers 33:35

Ezion-gaber - “Giant’s backbone.” The Wady Ghadhyan, a valley running eastward into the Arabah some miles north of the present head of the Elanitic gulf. A salt marsh which here overspreads a portion of the Arabah may be taken as indicating the limit to which the sea anciently reached; and we may thus infer the existence here in former times of an extensive tidal haven, at the head of which the city of Ezion-geber stood. Here it was that from the time of Solomon onward the Jewish navy was constructed 1 Kings 9:26; 1 Kings 22:49.

Numbers 33:41-49

Zalmonah and Punon are stations on the Pilgrim’s road; and the general route is fairly ascertained by a comparison of these verses with Numbers 21:4, etc.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

STAT. IX.

Verse Numbers 33:13. ALUSH.] Neither is this mentioned in Exodus and its situation is equally unknown.


 
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