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Exodus 16:1
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Profectique sunt de Elim, et venit omnis multitudo filiorum Isra�l in desertum Sin, quod est inter Elim et Sinai, quintodecimo die mensis secundi, postquam egressi sunt de terra �gypti.
Profectique sunt de Elim, et venit omnis congregatio filio rum Israel in desertum Sin, quod est inter Elim et Sinai, quinto decimo die mensis secundi postquam egressi sunt de terra Aegypti.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
am 2513, bc 1491, An, Ex, Is 1, Ijar
took: Exodus 15:27, Numbers 33:10-12
Sin: This desert was traversed by Dr. Shaw in nine hours. He was all the day diverted by varieties of lizards and vipers, which abound there. Exodus 17:1, Numbers 33:12, Ezekiel 30:15, Ezekiel 30:16
Reciprocal: Exodus 19:1 - came Numbers 13:21 - from the wilderness of Zin Numbers 33:15 - General Deuteronomy 1:31 - in the wilderness Acts 7:36 - and in the wilderness
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And they took their journey from Elim,.... And came again to the Red sea, as appears from Numbers 33:10 perhaps to some bay or creek of it, which ran up from it, and lay in their way, and where for a short time they encamped to look at it, and recollect what had been done for them in bringing them through it; but as their stay here was short, and nothing of any importance or consequence happened, it is here omitted, and their next station is only observed:
and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which still bears the same name, as a late traveller a informs us, who passed through it, and says, we traversed these plains in nine hours, being all the way diverted with the sight of a variety of lizards and vipers, that are here in great numbers; and elsewhere b he says, that vipers, especially in the wilderness of Sin which might very properly be called "the inheritance of dragons", were very dangerous and troublesome, not only our camels, but the Arabs who attended them, running every moment the risk of being bitten. The Red sea, or the bay of it, they came to from Elim, according to Bunting c was six miles, and from thence to the wilderness of Sin, sixteen more. This is a different wilderness from that of Zin, which is written with a different letter, Numbers 20:1 and was on the other side of Mount Sinai, as this was the way to it, as follows:
which is between Elim and Sinai according to the above writer d, it was twenty miles from Elim the Israelites travelled, and forty more ere they came to Sinai. Dr. Shaw e says, after traversing the plains in nine hours, we were near twelve hours in passing the many windings and difficult ways which lie beteen those deserts and these of Sinai; the latter consists of a beautiful plain more than a league in breadth, and nearly three in length:
on the fifteenth day of the second month, after their departing out of the land of Egypt; the month Ijar, as the Targum of Jonathan, which answers to part of April and part of May, and has its name from the beauty of the flowers, which appear at this time of the year: the Israelites were now come from thence a month or thirty days; for they came out the fifteenth of Abib or Nisan, and now it was the fifteenth of Ijar; and as the first day of this month, as Jarchi says, was on the first day of the week, this day must be so likewise; and yet sometimes the Jews say f this was a sabbath day.
a Shaw, p. 314. b lb p. 444. c Travels, p. 82. d Ib. e Travels, p. 314. f T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 87. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The the wilderness of Sin - The desert tract, called Debbet er Ramleh, extend nearly across the peninsula from the Wady Nasb in a south-easterly direction, between the limestone district of Et Tih and the granite of Sinai. The journey from the station at Elim, or even from that on the Red Sea, could be performed in a day: at that time the route was kept in good condition by the Egyptians.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XVI
The Israelites journey from Elim, and come to the wilderness of
Sin, 1.
They murmur for lack of bread, 2, 3.
God promises to rain bread from heaven for them, 4,
of which they were to collect a double portion on the sixth day, 5.
A miraculous supply of flesh in the evening and bread in
the morning, promised, 6-9.
The glory of the Lord appears in the cloud, 10.
Flesh and bread promised as a proof of God's care over them, 11, 12.
Quails come and cover the whole camp, 13.
And a dew fell which left a small round substance on the ground,
which Moses tells them was the bread which God had sent, 14, 15.
Directions for gathering it, 16.
The Israelites gather each an omer, 17, 18.
They are directed to leave none of it till the next day, 19;
which some neglecting, it become putrid, 20.
They gather it every morning, because it melted when the sun
waxed hot, 21.
Each person gathers two omers on the sixth day, 22.
Moses commands them to keep the seventh as a Sabbath
to the Lord, 23.
What was laid up for the Sabbath did not putrefy, 24.
Nothing of it fell on that day, hence the strict observance of
the Sabbath was enjoined, 25-30.
The Israelites name the substance that fell with the dew manna;
its appearance and taste described, 31.
An omer of the manna is commanded to be laid up for a memorial of
Jehovah's kindness, 32-34.
The manna now sent continued daily for the space of forty
years, 35.
How much an omer contained, 36.
NOTES ON CHAP. XVI
Verse Exodus 16:1. The wilderness of Sin — This desert lies between Elim and Sinai, and from Elim, Dr. Shaw says, Mount Sinai can be seen distinctly. Mr. Ainsworth supposes that this wilderness had its name from a strong city of Egypt called Sin, near which it lay. See Ezekiel 30:15-16. Before they came to the wilderness of Sin, they had a previous encampment by the Red Sea after they left Elim, of which Moses makes distinct mention Numbers 33:10-11.
The fifteenth day of the second month — This was afterwards called Ijar, and they had now left Egypt one month, during which It is probable they lived on the provisions they brought with them from Rameses, though it is possible they might have had a supply from the seacoast. Concerning Mount Sinai, Exodus 19:1; Exodus 19:1.
