King James Version
Numbers 33:5 in the King James Version says “And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 33 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.”
Numbers 33:5 · KJV
And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments.
And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pihahiroth, which is before Baalzephon: and they pitched before Migdol.
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“removed”
H5265properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e., start on a journey
“And 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
“and pitched”
H2583properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch a tent; generally to encamp (for abode or s
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