Numbers 33 · Verse 10

Numbers 33:10

And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.

Numbers 33:10, King James Version

Numbers 33:10 in other translations

BSB	They set out from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
WEB	They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.
ASV	And they journeyed from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.
YLT	and they journey from Elim, and encamp by the Red Sea.
DARBY	And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.
BBE	And they went on from Elim and put up their tents by the Red Sea.
Webster	And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.

What does Numbers 33:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

10. encamped by the Red Sea--The road from Wady Ghurundel leads into the interior, in consequence of a high continuous ridge which excludes all view of the sea. At the mouth of Wady-et-Tayibeh, after about three days' march, it opens again on a plain along the margin of the Red Sea. The minute accuracy of the Scripture narrative, in corresponding so exactly with the geographical features of this region, is remarkably shown in describing the Israelites as proceeding by the only practicable route that could be taken. This plain, where they encamped, was the Desert of Sin (see on Ex 16:1).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 10 Encamped by the Red Sea - It is difficult to assign the place of this encampment, as the Israelites were now on their way to Mount Sinai, which lay considerably to the east of Elim, and consequently farther from the sea than the former station. It might be called by the Red Sea, as the Israelites had it, as the principal object, still in view. This station however is mentioned nowhere else. By the Red Sea we are not to understand a sea, the waters of which are red, or the sand red, or any thing else about or in it red; for nothing of this kind appears. It is called in Hebrew ים סוף yam suph, which signifies the weedy sea. The Septuagint rendered the original by θαλασσα εραθρα, and the Vulgate after it by mare rubrum, and the European versions followed these, and, in opposition to etymology and reason, translated it the Red Sea. See the note on Exo 10:19. Stat. 7.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 33:1-49

This is a brief review of the travels of the children of Israel through the wilderness. It is a memorable history. In their travels towards Canaan they were continually on the remove. Such is our state in this world; we have here no continuing city, and all our removes in this world are but from one part a desert to another. They were led to and fro, forward and backward, yet were all the while under the direction…

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Numbers 33:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיִּסְע֖וּvai.yis.'Uand they set outH5265

מֵאֵילִ֑םme.'ei.Limfrom ElimH362

וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּvai.ya.cha.Nuand they encampedH2583

עַל\־'al-atH5921

יַם\־yam-[the] sea ofH3220

סֽוּף\׃Sufreed[s]H5488

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Numbers 33:10

Exodus 16:1
And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 17:1
And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Elim.
Ex 16:1; 17:1

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Context

Numbers 33:9
And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.
Numbers 33:10
And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.
Numbers 33:11
And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.

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Numbers 33:10 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Y partidos de Elim, asentaron junto al mar Bermejo.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Et ils partirent d’Élim, et campèrent près de la mer Rouge.
German Elberfelder 1871	Und sie brachen auf von Elim und lagerten sich am Schilfmeer.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Sed et inde egressi, fixerunt tentoria super mare Rubrum. Profectique de mari Rubro,