Numbers 33:30
in Numbers 33They set out from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And they journeyed from Hashmonah, and encamped in Moseroth.
KJV
And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth.
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This verse in Numbers 33
Commentary
5 notes on this verseAnd they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth. Thirty two miles from Hashmonah. In Deu 10:6 it is called Mosera; and according to the account there, they came hither from the following place, Benejaakan; probably they went first thither from Hashmonah, and then from Mosera or Moserot, and so to Benejaakan again, going backwards and forwards, so Jarchi; the distance of the two places was twenty four miles; for the further reconciliation this; see Gill on Deu 10:6 and the Samaritan version there.
This site's exposition
and encamped at Moseroth
on Numbers 33:30-35
Deuteronomy 10:6-7 names these same camps in the other order, from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera, then Gudgodah and Jotbath, and it puts Aaron's death at Mosera while verse 38 here puts it at mount Hor. Both accounts stand in the canon. Keil and Delitzsch read Moserah as the district in which mount Hor stands, and others take the two lists to record the same ground crossed twice. The chapter gives its own order and explains nothing about the other.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
Now from here a stage is made at Mesoroth [Moseroth], which is thought to mean "shutting out." What do they shut out? Doubtless the wicked suggestions of the opposing spirit from their thoughts.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Moseroth - Situation unknown. In Deu 10:6 it is said that the Israelites took their journey from Beeroth, the wells of the children of Jaakan, to Mosera, and there Aaron died. If so, Mosera, Moseroth, and Hor, must be different names of the same place; or Moseroth, or Mosera, must have been some town or village near Mount Hor, for there Aaron died. See Num 33:38. Stat. 27.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
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 wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּסְע֖וּ | vaiyisu | and they set out | H5265 → | 146 times |
| מֵֽחַשְׁמֹנָ֑ה | mechashmonah | from Hashmoneh | H2832 → | |
| וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ | vaiyachanu | and they encamped | H2583 → | 143 times |
| בְּמֹסֵרֽוֹת׃ | bemoserot | at Moseroth | H4149 → |
וַיִּסְע֖וּand they set out
vaiyisuH5265 →146 times
מֵֽחַשְׁמֹנָ֑הfrom Hashmoneh
mechashmonahH2832 →
וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּand they encamped
vaiyachanuH2583 →143 times
בְּמֹסֵרֽוֹת׃at Moseroth
bemoserotH4149 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About Numbers
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON NUMBERS 27:12.