And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
And they journeyed from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
And they journey from the Red Sea, and encamp in the wilderness of Sin;
And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
Voices3
Sin means "bramble bush" or "temptation." Thus the hope of good things now begins to smile upon you. What is the hope of good things? The Lord appeared from the bush and answered Moses; and this became the beginning of the Lord's coming to the children of Israel. But it is not insignificant that Sin also means "temptation." For visions usually involve temptation. Sometimes an angel of wickedness disguises himself as an angel of light.
Origen of Alexandria· HOMILIES ON NUMBERS 27:11, 253patristic
And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin. Sixteen miles from the Red sea, where they were last; see Exo 16:1.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
The wilderness of Sin - This lies between Elim and Mount Sinai. Dr. Shaw and his companions traversed these plains in nine hours. Stat. 8.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches1
On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt, the whole congregation of Israel set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai.
The walk4
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.
Through
Exodus 16:1On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt, the whole congregation of Israel set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is…
leads to
They set out from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
Then the whole congregation of Israel left the Desert of Sin, moving from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.
I will pour out My wrath on Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and cut off the crowds of Thebes.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
