Elim

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• Second camp of the Israelites after crossing the Red SeaExodus 15:27Numbers 33:9

The passages, in Bible order (2)

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1. Exodus 15:27

   Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.

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   “They arrived at a place called Elim, where there were twelve very pure springs of water and a multitude of seventy flourishing palm trees. See the mystery of God—how, after the bitterness of the law, the richness of gospel piety abounds. There the one spring …

   “And they came to Elim,.... On the twenty fifth of Nisan; for, according to Aben Ezra, they stayed but one day at Marah.

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2. Numbers 33:9

   They set out from Marah and came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.

   ›Commentary on Numbers 33:92 voices

   “And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim,.... Which was eight miles from Marah: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and three score and ten palm trees, and they pitched there; being a convenient place of water for them,

   “And came unto Elim - A place on the skirts of the deserts of Sin, two leagues from Tor, and nearly thirty from Corondel, a large bay on the east side of the Red Sea. Dr. Shaw, when he visited this place, found but nine of the twelve wells mentioned in the text, and instead of 70 palm trees, he found upwards of 2,000. See on Exo 15:27 (note). Stat. 6.

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