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Numbers 33:27

in Numbers 33

They set out from Tahath and camped at Terah.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And they journeyed from Tahath, and encamped in Terah.

KJV

And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah.

This verse in Numbers 33

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

and pitched at Rissah

on Numbers 33:21-29

Nine camps in nine verses with nothing but names attached. Most cannot be located now, and Adam Clarke marks Kehelathah utterly unknown while giving the distances the older writers assigned to the rest. These stations belong to the years under the sentence of chapter 14, which Deuteronomy 2:14 counts at thirty and eight from Kadesh-barnea to the brook Zered. The record keeps the movements of a generation whose story the narrative had stopped telling.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

But as there are no less than eighteen stations inserted between Hazeroth and Kadesh, and only eleven days were spent in performing that journey (De 1:2), it is evident that the intermediate stations here recorded belong to another and totally different visit to Kadesh. The first was when they left Sinai in the second month (Nu 1:11;

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The words behind it

4 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּסְע֖וּand they set out

    vaiyisuH5265146 times

  • מִתָּ֑חַתfrom Tahath

    mitachatH8480

  • וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּand they encamped

    vaiyachanuH2583143 times

  • בְּתָֽרַח׃at Tarah

    betarachH8646

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.