Numbers 33 · Verse 28

Numbers 33:28

And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.
Numbers 33:28, King James Version

Numbers 33:28 in other translations

BSBThey set out from Terah and camped at Mithkah.
WEBThey traveled from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.
ASVAnd they journeyed from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.
YLTand they journey from Tarah, and encamp in Mithcah.
DARBYAnd they removed from Terah, and encamped in Mithcah.
BBEAnd they went on from Terah, and put up their tents in Mithkah.
WebsterAnd they removed from Tarah, and encamped in Mithcah.

What does Numbers 33:28 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 28 Mithcah - Calmet conjectures that this may be Mocha, a city in Arabia Petraea. Stat. 25.

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 33:28 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
מִתָּ֑רַחmi.Ta.rachfrom TarahH8646
וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּvai.ya.cha.Nuand they encampedH2583
בְּמִתְקָֽה\׃be.mit.Kahat MithcahH4989

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

Context

  • Numbers 33:27

    And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah.

  • Numbers 33:28

    And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.

  • Numbers 33:29

    And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah.

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Numbers 33:28 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y partidos de Tara, asentaron en Mithca.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et ils partirent de Thérakh, et campèrent à Mithka.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und sie brachen auf von Terach und lagerten sich in Mithka.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Unde egressi, fixere tentoria in Methca.