Exodus 13:20 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 13:20

They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness.

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ASV

And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

KJV

And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And they took their journey from Succoth,.... On the second day, as Jarchi observes, from their coming out of Egypt, which was the sixteenth of Nisan: and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness which had its name from it, and was called the wilderness of Etham, Num 33:8. Etham is said to be eight miles from Succoth (s).

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Encamped in Etham - As for the reasons assigned on Exo 13:17, God would not lead the Israelites by the way of the Philistines’ country, he directed them towards the wilderness of Shur, Exo 15:22, upon the edge or extremity of which, next to Egypt, at the bottom of the Arabian Gulf, lay Etham, which is the second place of encampment mentioned. See the extracts from Dr. Shaw at the end of Exodus. See Clarke’s note on Exo 40:38.

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Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּסְע֖וּ	vai.yis.'U	and they set out	H5265 →
מִסֻּכֹּ֑ת	mi.su.Kot	from Succoth	H5523 →
וַיַּחֲנ֣וּ	vai.ya.cha.Nu	and they encamped	H2583 →
בְאֵתָ֔ם	ve.'e.Tam	at Etham	H864 →
בִּקְצֵ֖ה	bik.Tzeh	on [the] edge of	H7097 →
הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃	ha.mid.Bar	the wilderness	H4057 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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Exodus 12:37
The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.
leads to
- Numbers 1:46
  And all those counted totaled 603,550.
- Exodus 38:26
  a beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men.
- Numbers 33:3
  On the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from Rameses. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,
- Numbers 11:21
  But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’
- Numbers 33:5
  The Israelites set out from Rameses and camped at Succoth.

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06About Exodus

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Where the connections lead

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About Exodus