King James Version
Exodus 19:1 in the King James Version says “In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into th...” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 19 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.”
Exodus 19:1 · KJV
In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.
And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
KJV Study — Public Domain
“In the third”
H7992third; feminine a third (part); by extension, a third (day, year or time); specifically, a third-story cell)
“were gone forth”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
“when the children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“the same day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“they into the wilderness”
H4057a pasture (i.e., open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert
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