Numbers 33 · Verse 21

Numbers 33:21

And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah.
Numbers 33:21, King James Version

Numbers 33:21 in other translations

BSBThey set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
WEBThey traveled from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah.
ASVAnd they journeyed from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah.
YLTAnd they journey from Libnah, and encamp in Rissah;
DARBYAnd they removed from Libnah, and encamped at Rissah.
BBEAnd they went on from Libnah, and put up their tents in Rissah.
WebsterAnd they removed from Libnah, and encamped at Rissah.

What does Numbers 33:21 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 33:16-37

Nu 33:16-56. From Sinai to Kadesh and Plains of Moab. 16-37. Kibroth-Hattaavah ("the graves of lust," see on Nu 11:34)--The route, on breaking up the encampment at Sinai, led down Wady Sheikh; then crossing Jebel-et-Tih, which intersected the peninsula, they descended into Wady Zalaka, pitching successively at two brief, though memorable, stations (De 9:22); then they encamped at Hazeroth ("unwalled villages")…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 21 Bissah - A place mentioned nowhere else in the sacred writings. Its situation utterly uncertain. Stat. 18.

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 33:21 in the original Hebrew

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וַיִּסְע֖וּvai.yis.'Uand they set outH5265
מִלִּבְנָ֑הmi.liv.Nahfrom LibnahH3841
וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּvai.ya.cha.Nuand they encampedH2583
בְּרִסָּֽה\׃be.ri.Sahat RissahH7446

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

Cross references for Numbers 33:21

  • Deuteronomy 1:1

    These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Libnah.
De 1:1
Laban. Rissah.This is supposed, apparently with good reason, by the Editor of Calmet, to be the same with the present El Arish, a village three quarters of a league from the Mediterranean, and the last stage in Syria, on the road to Egypt.

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

Context

  • Numbers 33:20

    And they departed from Rimmon–parez, and pitched in Libnah.

  • Numbers 33:21

    And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah.

  • Numbers 33:22

    And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.

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Numbers 33:21 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y partidos de Libna, asentaron en Rissa.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et ils partirent de Libna, et campèrent à Rissa.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und sie brachen auf von Libna und lagerten sich in Rissa.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
De Lebna castrametati sunt in Ressa.