Numbers 33 · Verse 2

Numbers 33:2

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.
Numbers 33:2, King James Version

Numbers 33:2 in other translations

BSBAt the LORD’s command, Moses recorded the stages of their journey. These are the stages listed by their starting points:
WEBMoses wrote the starting points of their journeys by the commandment of the LORD. These are their journeys according to their starting points.
ASVAnd Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Jehovah: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
YLTand Moses writeth their outgoings, by their journeys, by the command of Jehovah; and these are their journeys, by their outgoings:
DARBYAnd Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Jehovah; and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
BBEAnd the stages of their journey on their way out were put down in writing by Moses at the order of the Lord: these are the stages of their journey and the way they went.
WebsterAnd 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.

What does Numbers 33:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
2. Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the Lord--The wisdom of this divine order is seen in the importance of the end to which it was subservient--namely, partly to establish the truth of the history, partly to preserve a memorial of God's marvellous interpositions on behalf of Israel, and partly to confirm their faith in the prospect of the difficult enterprise on which they were entering, the invasion of Canaan.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys - We may consider the whole book of Numbers as a diary, and indeed the first book of travels ever published. Dr. Shaw, Dr. Pococke, and several others, have endeavored to mark out the route of the Israelites, through this great, dreary, and trackless desert, and have ascertained many of the stages here described. Indeed there are sufficient evidences of this important journey still remaining, for the descriptions of many are so particular that the places are readily ascertained by them; but this is not the case with all. Israel was the Church of God in the wilderness, and its unsettled, wandering state under Moses may point out the unsettled state of religion under the law. Their being brought, after the death of Moses, into the promised rest by Joshua, may point out the establishment, fixedness, and certainty of that salvation provided by Jesus Christ, of whom Joshua, in name and conduct, was a remarkable type. Mr. Ainsworth imagines that the forty-two stations here enumerated, through which the Israelites were brought to the verge of the promised land, and afterwards taken over Jordan into the rest which God had promised, point out the forty-two generations from Abraham unto Christ, through whom the Savior of the world came, by whose blood we have an entrance into the holiest, and enjoy the inheritance among the saints in light. And Mr. Bromley, in his Way to the Sabbath of Rest, considers each name and place as descriptive of the spiritual state through which a soul passes in its way to the kingdom of God. But in cases of this kind fancy has much more to do than judgment.

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 33:2 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.

וַיִּכְתֹּ֨בvai.yikh.Toand he wrote downH3789
מֹשֶׁ֜הmo.ShehMosesH4872
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
מוֹצָאֵיהֶ֛םmo.tza.'ei.Hempoints of departure theirH4161
לְמַסְעֵיהֶ֖םle.mas.'ei.Hemto settings out theirH4550
עַל\־'al-onH5921
פִּ֣יpi[the] mouth ofH6310
יְהוָ֑הYah.wehYahwehH3068
וְאֵ֥לֶּהve.'E.lehand theseH428
מַסְעֵיהֶ֖םmas.'ei.Hem[are] settings out theirH4550
לְמוֹצָאֵיהֶֽם\׃le.mo.tza.'ei.Hemto points of departure theirH4161

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

Cross references for Numbers 33:2

  • Numbers 9:17-23

    And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents. At the commandment of the Lord the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the Lord they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents. And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the Lord, and journeyed not. And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the Lord they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the Lord they journeyed. …

  • Deuteronomy 10:11

    And the Lord said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.

  • Deuteronomy 1:2

    (There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh–barnea.)

  • Numbers 10:13

    And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

  • Numbers 10:6

    When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
journeys.
9:17-23; 10:6,13; De 1:2; 10:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Numbers 33:1

    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.

  • Numbers 33:2

    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.

  • Numbers 33:3

    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 high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.

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Numbers 33:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y Moisés escribió sus salidas conforme á sus jornadas por mandato de Jehová. Estas, pues, son sus estancias con arreglo á sus partidas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Moïse écrivit leurs départs, selon leurs traites, suivant le commandement de l’ Éternel; et ce sont ici leurs traites, selon leurs départs.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und Mose schrieb ihre Auszüge auf, nach ihren Zügen, nach dem Befehle Jehovas; und dies sind ihre Züge, nach ihren Auszügen:
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		quas descripsit Moyses juxta castrorum loca, quæ Domini jussione mutabant.