1Dies sind die Züge der Söhne Jissraels, auf denen sie aus dem Land Ägypten fuhren, nach ihren Scharen, unter der Hand Mosches und Aharons, 2Mosche schrieb ihre Ausfahrten nieder zu ihren Zügen auf SEIN Geheiß. Dies sind ihre Züge nach ihren Ausfahrten: 3Sie zogen von Ramsses in der ersten Mondneuung, am fünfzehnten Tag auf die erste Neuung, am Nachmorgen des Übersprungsmahls fuhren die Söhne Jissraels aus, mit erhobner Hand, vor den Augen aller Ägypter, 4während die Ägypter begruben, was ER unter ihnen geschlagen hatte, alles Erstlingtum; auch unter ihren Göttern hat ER Gerichte getan. 5Die Söhne Jissraels zogen von Ramsses und lagerten in Ssukkot. 6Sie zogen von Ssukkot und lagerten in Etam das am Rand der Wüste ist. 7Sie zogen von Etam, man wendete über Pi Hachirot das vor Baal Zfon gegenüber liegt, und sie lagerten vor Migdol. 8Sie zogen von vor Hachirot und schritten mitten durchs Meer in die Wüste. Sie gingen den Weg eines Tagdritts in der Wüste Etam und lagerten in Mara. 9Sie zogen von Mara und kamen nach Elim, in Elim waren zwölf Wasserquellen und siebzig Palmen, und sie lagerten dort. 10Sie zogen von Elim und lagerten am Schilfmeer. 11Sie zogen vom Schilfmeer und lagerten in der Wüste Ssin. 12Sie zogen von der Wüste Ssin und lagerten in Dofka. 13Sie zogen von Dofka und lagerten in Alusch. 14Sie zogen von Alusch und lagerten in Rfidim, da war kein Wasser zu trinken fürs Volk. 15Sie zogen von Rfidim und lagerten in der Wüste Ssinai. 16Sie zogen Voll der Wüste Ssinai und lagerten in Gräber-des- Gelüsts. 17Sie zogen von Gräber-des-Gelüsts und lagerten in Chazerot.. 18Sie zogen von Chazerot und lagerten in Ritma. 19Sie zogen von Ritma und lagerten in Rimmon Parez. 20Sie zogen von Rimmon Parez und lagerten in Libna. 21Sie zogen von Libna und lagerten in Rissa. 22Sie zogen von Rissa und lagerten in Khelata. 23Sie zogen von Khelata und lagerten am Berge Schafer. 24Sie zogen vom Berge Schafer und lagerten in Charada. 25Sie zogen von Charada und lagerten in Makhelot. 26Sie zogen von Makhelot und lagerten in Tachat. 27Sie zogen von Tachat und lagerten in Tarach. 28Sie zogen von Tarach und lagerten in Mitka. 29Sie zogen von Mitka und lagerten in Chaschmona. 30Sie zogen von Chaschmona und lagerten in Mosserot. 31Sie zogen von Mosserot und lagerten in Bne Jaakan. 32Sie zogen von Bne Jaakan und lagerten in Chor Hagidgad. 33Sie zogen von Chor Hagidgad und lagerten in Jotbata. 34Sie zogen von Jotbata und lagerten in Abrona. 35Sie zogen von Abrona und lagerten in Ezjon Gaber. 36Sie zogen von Ezjon Gaber und lagerten in der Wüste Zin, das ist Kadesch. 37Sie zogen von Kadesch und lagerten am Berge Hor, am Rand des Landes Edom. 38Aharon der Priester stieg den Berg Hor hinan auf SEIN Geheiß, er starb dort im vierzigsten Jahr auf die Ausfahrt der Söhne Jissraels von dem Land Ägypten, in der fünften Mondneuung, am ersten auf die Neuung, 39Aharon aber war hundertdreiundzwanzig Jahre, als er auf dem Berge Hor starb. 40Der Kanaaniter, der König von Arad - er saß im Land Kanaan im Südstrich - hörte vom Kommen der Söhne Jissraels. 41Sie zogen vom Berge Hor und lagerten in Zalmona. 42Sie zogen von Zalmona und lagerten in Punon. 43Sie zogen von Punon und lagerten in Obot. 44Sie zogen von Obot und lagerten im Ijjim der Jenseite, in der Grenzmark Moabs. 45Sie zogen von Ijjim und lagerten in Dibon Gad. 46Sie zogen von Dibon Gad und lagerten in Almon Diblatajim. 47Sie zogen von Almon Diblatajim und lagerten im Seitengebirg, vor Nbo. 48Sie zogen vom Seitengebirg und lagerten in den Steppen Moabs, am Jericho-Jordan; 49sie lagerten am Jordan von Bet Hajschimot bis Abel Haschittim in den Steppen Moabs. 50ER redete zu Mosche in den Steppen Moabs am Jericho-Jordan, sprechend: 51Rede zu den Söhnen Jissraels, sprich zu ihnen: Wenn ihr den Jordan ins Land Kanaan überschreitet, 52enterbet alle Insassen des Lands vor eurem Antlitz her, schwendet all ihre Schaustücke hin, all ihre Gußbilder sollt ihr schwenden, all ihre Koppen sollt ihr tilgen. 53Auserben werdet ihr das Land und in ihm siedeln, denn euch habe ich das Land gegeben, es zu ererben. 54Ihr sollt das Land mit dem Los euch eignen, nach euren Sippen, dem Vielzähligen zwar vielfältigt sein Eigentum, dem Minderzähligen mindre sein Eigentum, doch wohin immer das Los ihm fährt, sein werde es, nach den Stäben eurer Väter sollt ihr euch eineignen. 55Enterbt ihr aber nicht die Insassen des Landes vor euch her, wird, was ihr von ihnen übrig lasset, zu Splittern in euren Augen, zu Stacheln in euren Seiten, sie werden euch bedrängen auf dem Land, in dem ihr siedelt. 56Es wird geschehn: wie ich gesonnen war ihnen zu tun, tue ich euch.
Jamieson Fausset Brown Bible Commentary 1 TWO AND FORTY JOURNEYS OF THE ISRAELITES--FROM EGYPT TO SINAI. (
Num 33:1-
Num 33:15)
These are the journeys of the children of Israel--This chapter may be said to form the winding up of the history of the travels of the Israelites through the wilderness; for the three following chapters relate to matters connected with the occupation and division of the promised land. As several apparent discrepancies will be discovered on comparing the records here given of the journeyings from Sinai with the detailed accounts of the events narrated in the Book of Exodus and the occasional notices of places that are found in that of Deuteronomy, it is probable that this itinerary comprises a list of only the most important stations in their journeys--those where they formed prolonged encampments, and whence they dispersed their flocks and herds to pasture on the adjacent plains till the surrounding herbage was exhausted. The catalogue extends from their departure out of Egypt to their arrival on the plains of Moab.
went forth . . . with their armies--that is, a vast multitude marshalled in separate companies, but regular order.
2 Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the Lord--The wisdom of this divine order is seen in the importance of the end to which it was subservient--namely, partly to establish the truth of the history, partly to preserve a memorial of God's marvellous interpositions on behalf of Israel, and partly to confirm their faith in the prospect of the difficult enterprise on which they were entering, the invasion of Canaan.
3 Rameses--generally identified with Heroopoils, now the modern Abu-Keisheid (see on
Exod 12:37), which was probably the capital of Goshen, and, by direction of Moses, the place of general rendezvous previous to their departure.
4 upon their gods--used either according to Scripture phraseology to denote their rulers (the first-born of the king and his princes) or the idolatrous objects of Egyptian worship.
5 pitched in Succoth--that is, "booths"--a place of no note except as a temporary halting place, at Birketel-Hadji, the Pilgrim's Pool [CALMET].
6 Etham--edge, or border of all that part of Arabia-Petrća which lay contiguous to Egypt and was known by the general name of Shur.
7 Pi-hahiroth, Baal-zephon . . . Migdol--(See on
Exod 14:2).
8 Marah--thought to be Ain Howarah, both from its position and the time (three days) it would take them with their children and flocks to march from the water of Ayun Musa to that spot.
9 Elim--supposed to be Wady Ghurundel (see on
Exod 15:27).
10 encamped by the Red Sea--The road from Wady Ghurundel leads into the interior, in consequence of a high continuous ridge which excludes all view of the sea. At the mouth of Wady-et-Tayibeh, after about three days' march, it opens again on a plain along the margin of the Red Sea. The minute accuracy of the Scripture narrative, in corresponding so exactly with the geographical features of this region, is remarkably shown in describing the Israelites as proceeding by the only practicable route that could be taken. This plain, where they encamped, was the Desert of Sin (see on
Exod 16:1).
12 Dophkah . . . Alush . . . Rephidim--These three stations, in the great valleys of El Sheikh and Feiran, would be equivalent to four days' journey for such a host. Rephidim (
Exod 17:6) was in Horeb, the burnt region--a generic name for a hot, mountainous country. [See on
Exod 17:1.]
15 wilderness of Sinai--the Wady Er-Raheh.
16 FROM SINAI TO KADESH AND PLAINS OF MOAB. (Num. 33:16-56)
Kibroth-Hattaavah ("the graves of lust," see on
Num 11:34) --The route, on breaking up the encampment at Sinai, led down Wady Sheikh; then crossing Jebel-et-Tih, which intersected the peninsula, they descended into Wady Zalaka, pitching successively at two brief, though memorable, stations (
Deut 9:22); then they encamped at Hazeroth ("unwalled villages"), supposed to be at Ain-Hadera (see on
Num 11:35). Kadesh, or Kadesh-barnea, is supposed to be the great valley of the Ghor, and the city Kadesh to have been situated on the border of this valley [BURCKHARDT; ROBINSON]. But as there are no less than eighteen stations inserted between Hazeroth and Kadesh, and only eleven days were spent in performing that journey (
Deut 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 (
Num 1:11;
Num 13:20), and were in Kadesh in August (
Deut 1:45), and "abode many days" in it. Then, murmuring at the report of the spies, they were commanded to return into the desert "by the way of the Red Sea." The arrival at Kadesh, mentioned in this catalogue, corresponds to the second sojourn at that place, being the first month, or April (
Num 20:1). Between the two visits there intervened a period of thirty-eight years, during which they wandered hither and thither through all the region of El-Tih ("wanderings"), often returning to the same spots as the pastoral necessities of their flocks required; and there is the strongest reason for believing that the stations named between Hazeroth (
Num 33:8) and Kadesh (
Num 33:36) belong to the long interval of wandering. No certainty has yet been attained in ascertaining the locale of many of these stations. There must have been more than are recorded; for it is probable that those only are noted where they remained some time, where the tabernacle was pitched, and where Moses and the elders encamped, the people being scattered for pasture in various directions. From Ezion-geber, for instance, which stood at the head of the gulf of Akaba, to Kadesh, could not be much less than the whole length of the great valley of the Ghor, a distance of not less than a hundred miles, whatever might be the exact situation of Kadesh; and, of course, there must have been several intervening stations, though none are mentioned. The incidents and stages of the rest of the journey to the plains of Moab are sufficiently explicit from the preceding chapters.
18 Rithmah ("the place of the broom")--a station possibly in some wady extending westward of the Ghor.
19 Rimmon-parez, or Rimmon--a city of Judah and Simeon (
Josh 15:32); Libnah, so called from its white poplars (
Josh 10:29), or, as some think, a white hill between Kadesh and Gaza (
Josh 10:29); Rissah (El-arish); mount Shapher (Cassius); Moseroth, adjacent to mount Hor, in Wady Mousa. Ezion-geber, near Akaba, a seaport on the western shore of the Elanitic gulf; Wilderness of Zin, on the east side of the peninsula of Sinai; Punon, in the rocky ravines of mount Hor and famous for the mines and quarries in its vicinity as well as for its fruit trees, now Tafyle, on the border of Edom; Abarim, a ridge of rugged hills northwest of the Arnon--the part called Nebo was one of its highest peaks--opposite Jericho. (See on
Deut 10:6).
50 ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you--not, however, by expulsion, but extermination (
Deut 7:1).
and destroy all their pictures--obelisks for idolatrous worship (see on
Lev 26:1).
and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places--by metonymy for all their groves and altars, and materials of worship on the tops of hills.
54 ye shall divide the land by lot--The particular locality of each tribe was to be determined in this manner while a line was to be used in measuring the proportion (
Josh 18:10;
Ps 16:5-
Ps 16:6).
55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you--No associations were to be formed with the inhabitants; otherwise, "if ye let remain, they will be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides"--that is, they would prove troublesome and dangerous neighbors, enticing to idolatry, and consequently depriving you of the divine favor and blessing. The neglect of the counsel against union with the idolatrous inhabitants became fatal to them. This earnest admonition given to the Israelites in their peculiar circumstances conveys a salutary lesson to us to allow no lurking habits of sin to remain in us. That spiritual enemy must be eradicated from our nature; otherwise it will be ruinous to our present peace and future salvation.
