Numbers 33 · Verse 23

Numbers 33:23

And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.
Numbers 33:23, King James Version

Numbers 33:23 in other translations

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

What does Numbers 33:23 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 23 Shapher - Where this mountain lay cannot be determined. Stat. 20.

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 33:23 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
מִקְּהֵלָ֑תָהmi.ke.he.La.tahfrom KehelathahH6954
וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּvai.ya.cha.Nuand they encampedH2583
בְּהַר\־be.har-at [the] mountain ofH2022
שָֽׁפֶר\׃Sha.ferShapherH8234

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

Context

  • Numbers 33:22

    And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.

  • Numbers 33:23

    And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.

  • Numbers 33:24

    And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah.

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Numbers 33:23 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y partidos de Ceelatha, asentaron en el monte de Sepher.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et ils partirent de Kehélatha, et campèrent dans la montagne de Shapher.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und sie brachen auf von Kehelatha und lagerten sich am Berge Schepher.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Unde profecti, castrametati sunt in monte Sepher.