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Red Sea
The sea so called extends along the west coast of Arabia for about 1,400 miles, and separates Asia from Africa. It is connected with the Indian Ocean, of which it is an arm, by the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb. At a point (Ras Mohammed) about 200 miles from its northern extremity it is divided into two arms, that on the east called the Aelanitic Gulf, now the Bahr el-'Akabah, about 100 miles long by 15 broad, and that on the west the Gulf of Suez, about 150 miles long by about 20 broad. This branch is now connected with the Mediterranean by the Suez Canal. Between these two arms lies the Sinaitic Peninsula.
The Hebrew name generally given to this sea is Yam Suph. This word suph means a woolly kind of sea-weed, which the sea casts up in great abundance on its shores. In these passages, Exo_10:19; Exo_13:18; Exo_15:4, Exo_15:22; Exo_23:31; Num_14:25, etc., the Hebrew name is always translated “Red Sea,” which was the name given to it by the Greeks. The origin of this name (Red Sea) is uncertain. Some think it is derived from the red colour of the mountains on the western shore; others from the red coral found in the sea, or the red appearance sometimes given to the water by certain zoophytes floating in it. In the New Testament (Act_7:36; Heb_11:29) this name is given to the Gulf of Suez.
This sea was also called by the Hebrews Yam-mitstraim, i.e., “the Egyptian sea” (Isa_11:15), and simply Ha-yam, “the sea” (Exo_14:2, Exo_14:9, Exo_14:16, Exo_14:21, Exo_14:28; Jos_24:6, Jos_24:7; Isa_10:26, etc.).
The great historical event connected with the Red Sea is the passage of the children of Israel, and the overthrow of the Egyptians, to which there is frequent reference in Scripture (Ex. 14, 15; Num_33:8; Deu_11:4; Jos_2:10; Jdg_11:16; 2Sa_22:16; Neh_9:9-11; Psa_66:6; Isa_10:26; Act_7:36, etc.).

The Wilderness of Sin. A tract of the wilderness, which the Israelites reached, after leaving the encampment by the Red Sea. Num_33:11; Num_33:23. Their next halting-place, Exo_16:1; Exo_17:1 was Rephidim, probably the Wady Feiran; see Rephidim; on which supposition, it would follow, that Sin must lie between that way, and the coast of the Gulf of Suez, and, of course, west of Sinai. In the wilderness of Sin, the manna was first gathered, and those who adopt the supposition that this was merely the natural product of the tarfa bush, find from the abundance of that shrub in Wady es-Sheikh, southeast of Wady Ghurundel, a proof of local identity.

Dophkah
Knocking, an encampment of the Israelites in the wilderness (Num_33:12). It was in the desert of Sin, on the eastern shore of the western arm of the Red Sea, somewhere in the Wady Feiran.

Alush
One of the places, the last before Rephidim, at which the Hebrews rested on their way to Sinai (Num_33:13, Num_33:14). It was probably situated on the shore of the Red Sea.

Rephidim
Reph'idim. Exo_17:1; Exo_17:8; Exo_19:2. The name means rests or stays, that is, resting places. The place lies in the march of the Israelites from Egypt to Sinai. Its site is not certain, but it is perhaps Wady Feiran, a rather broad valley about 25 miles from Jebel Musa, (Mount Sinai). Others place it in Wady es Sheikh, an eastern continuation of Feiran, and about 12 miles from Sinai. Here, the Israelites fought their first battle, and gained their first victory after leaving Egypt, the Amalekites having attacked them; here, also, the people murmured from thirst, and Moses brought water for them out of the rock. From this murmuring, the place was called "Massah" and "Meribah."

Sinai
Of Sin(the moon god), called also Horeb, the name of the mountain district which was reached by the Hebrews in the third month after the Exodus. Here they remained encamped for about a whole year. Their journey from the Red Sea to this encampment, including all the windings of the route, was about 150 miles. The last twenty-two chapters of Exodus, together with the whole of Leviticus and Num. 1-11, contain a record of all the transactions which occurred while they were here. From Rephidim (Exo_17:8-13) the Israelites journeyed forward through the Wady Solaf and Wady esh-Sheikh into the plain of er-Rahah, “the desert of Sinai,” about 2 miles long and half a mile broad, and encamped there “before the mountain.” The part of the mountain range, a protruding lower bluff, known as the Ras Sasafeh (Sufsafeh), rises almost perpendicularly from this plain, and is in all probability the Sinai of history. Dean Stanley thus describes the scene:, “The plain itself is not broken and uneven and narrowly shut in, like almost all others in the range, but presents a long retiring sweep, within which the people could remove and stand afar off. The cliff, rising like a huge altar in front of the whole congregation, and visible against the sky in lonely grandeur from end to end of the whole plain, is the very image of the 'mount that might be touched,' and from which the voice of God might be heard far and wide over the plain below.” This was the scene of the giving of the law. From the Ras Sufsafeh the law was proclaimed to the people encamped below in the plain of er-Rahah. During the lengthened period of their encampment here the Israelites passed through a very memorable experience. An immense change passed over them. They are now an organized nation, bound by covenant engagement to serve the Lord their God, their ever-present divine Leader and Protector. At length, in the second month of the second year of the Exodus, they move their camp and march forward according to a prescribed order. After three days they reach the “wilderness of Paran,” the “et - Tih”, i.e., “the desert”, and here they make their first encampment. At this time a spirit of discontent broke out amongst them, and the Lord manifested his displeasure by a fire which fell on the encampment and inflicted injury on them. Moses called the place Taberah (q.v.), Num_11:1-3. The journey between Sinai and the southern boundary of the Promised Land (about 150 miles) at Kadesh was accomplished in about a year.

The name comes probably from a root meaning “to shine,” which occurs in Syriac, and which in Babylonian is found in the name sinu for “the moon.” The old explanation, “clayey,” is inappropriate to any place in the Sinaitic desert, though it might apply to Sin (Eze_30:15, Eze_30:16) or Pelusium; even there, however, the applicability is doubtful. The desert of Sin (Exo_16:1; Exo_17:1; Num_33:11 f) lay between Sinai and the Gulf of Suez, and may have been named from the “glare” of its white chalk. But at Sinai “the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel” (Exo_24:17); and, indeed, the glory of the Lord still dyes the crags of Jebel Mûsa (the “mountain of Moses”) with fiery red, reflected from its red granite and pink gneiss rocks, long after the shadows have fallen on the plain beneath. Sinai is mentioned, as a desert and a mountain, in 35 passages of the Old Testament. In 17 passages the same desert and mountain are called “Horeb,” or “the waste.” This term is chiefly used in Deuteronomy, though Sinai also occurs (Deu_33:2). In the other books of the Pentateuch, Sinai is the usual name, though Horeb also occurs (Exo_3:1; Exo_17:6; Exo_33:6), applying both to the “Mount of God” and to the desert of Rephidim, some 20 miles to the Northwest.

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Elim

("strong trees".) Probably the lovely valley of Gharandel. In the rainy season a torrent flows through to the Red Sea. The water is in most seasons good, and even the best on the journey from Cairo to Sinai. Israel found at Elim 12 wells (i.e. "natural springs") and 70 palmtrees, and encamped by the waters; their stage next after Marah, now Huwara. A few palms still remain, dwarfs and trunkless, gnarled tamarisks and acacias, the sole relics of the grove that once flourished on this oasis of the W. side of the peninsula. Israel stayed here a long time; for they did not reach the wilderness until two and a half months after leaving Suez, finding water and pasture abundant in the intermediate district. Laborde makes wady Useit to be Elim, the second wady which Israel going from N.W. to S.E. along the coast would reach after Gharandel. Lepsius makes the fourth wady, reached by Israel, namely, wady Shubeikeh, in its lower part Taiyibeh, to be Elim (Exo_15:27; Num_33:9.)

May the Lord Jesus Christ be Glorified.

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Marah
Bitterness, a fountain at the sixth station of the Israelites (Exo_15:23, Exo_15:24; Num_33:8) whose waters were so bitter that they could not drink them. On this account they murmured against Moses, who, under divine direction, cast into the fountain “a certain tree” which took away its bitterness, so that the people drank of it. This was probably the 'Ain Hawarah, where there are still several springs of water that are very “bitter,” distant some 47 miles from 'Ayun Mousa.

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Etham
E'tham. (bounded by the sea). One of the early resting-places of the Israelites, when they quitted Egypt; described as "in the edge of the wilderness." Exo_13:20; Num_33:6-7. Etham may be placed where the cultivable land ceases, near the Seba Biar or Seven Wells, about three miles from the western side of the ancient head of the gulf.

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Succoth
Suc'coth. (booths).
1. An ancient town, first heard of in the account of the homeward journey of Jacob from Padan-aram. Gen_35:17. The name is derived from the fact of Jacob's having there put up "booths," (succoth), for his cattle, as well as a house for himself. From the itinerary of Jacob's return, it seems that Succoth lay between Peniel, near the ford of the torrent Jabbok and Shechem. Compare Gen_32:30 and Gen_33:18.
In accordance with this, is the mention of Succoth in the narrative of Gideon's pursuit of Zebah and Zalluunna. Jdg_5:5-17. It would appear from this passage that, it lay east of the Jordan, which is corroborated by the fact that, it was allotted to the tribe of Gad. Jos_13:27.
Succoth is named once again after this -- in 1Ki_7:46; 2Ch_4:17 -- as marking the spot, at which the brass founderies were placed, for casting the metal work of the Temple. (Dr. Merrill identifies it with a site called Tell Darala, one mile north of the Jabbok. -- Editor).
2. The first camping place of the Israelites when they left Egypt. Exo_12:37; Exo_13:20; Num_33:5-6. This place was apparently reached at the close of the first days march. Rameses, the starting place, was probably near the western end of the Wadi-t-Tumeylat. The distance traversed in each day's journey was about fifteen miles.

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Rameses
“The land of” (Gen_47:11), was probably “the land of Goshen” (q.v.) Gen_45:10. After the Hebrews had built Rameses, one of the “treasure cities,” it came to be known as the “land” in which that city was built.
The city bearing this name (Exo_12:37) was probably identical with Zoan, which Rameses II. (“son of the sun”) rebuilt. It became his special residence, and ranked next in importance and magnificence to Thebes. Huge masses of bricks, made of Nile mud, sun-dried, some of them mixed with stubble, possibly moulded by Jewish hands, still mark the site of Rameses. This was the general rendezvous of the Israelites before they began their march out of Egypt. Called also Raamses (Exo_1:11).

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Egypt

E'gypt. (land of the Copts). A country occupying the northeast angle of Africa. Its limits appear always to have been very nearly the same. It is bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, on the east by Palestine, Arabia and the Red Sea, on the south by Nubia, and on the west by the Great Desert. It is divided into upper Egypt -- the valley of the Nile -- and lower Egypt, the plain of the Delta, from the Greek letter; it is formed by the branching mouths of the Nile, and the Mediterranean Sea. The portions made fertile by the Nile comprise about 9582 square geographical miles, of which only about 5600 is under cultivation. -- Encyclopedia Britannica. The Delta extends about 200 miles along the Mediterranean, and Egypt is 520 miles long from north to south from the sea to the First Cataract.

Names. -- The common name of Egypt in the Bible is "Mizraim." It is in the dual number, which indicates the two natural divisions of the country into an upper and a lower region. The Arabic name of Egypt -- Mizr -- signifies "red mud". Egypt is also called in the Bible "the land of Ham," Psa_105:23; Psa_105:27, compare Psa_78:51, -- a name most probably referring to Ham the son of Noah -- and "Rahab," the proud or insolent: these appear to be poetical appellations. The common ancient Egyptian name of the country is written in hieroglyphics (Kem, which was perhaps pronounced Chem. This name signifies, in the ancient language and in Coptic, "black", on account of the blackness of its alluvial soil. We may reasonably conjecture that Kem is the Egyptian equivalent of Ham.

General Appearance, Climate, Etc. -- The general appearance of the country cannot have greatly changed since the days of Moses. The whole country is remarkable for its extreme fertility, which especially strikes the beholder when the rich green of the fields is contrasted with the utterly bare, yellow mountains or the sand-strewn rocky desert on either side. The climate is equable and healthy. Rain is not very unfrequent on the northern coast, but inland is very rare. Cultivation nowhere depends upon it. The inundation of the Nile fertilizes and sustains the country, and makes the river its chief blessing.

The Nile was, on this account, anciently worshipped. The rise begins in Egypt about the summer solstice, and the inundation commences about two months later. The greatest height is attained about or somewhat after the autumnal equinox. The inundation lasts about three months. The atmosphere, except on the seacoast, is remarkably dry and clear, which accounts for the so perfect preservation of the monuments, with their pictures and inscriptions. The heat is extreme during a large part of the year. The winters are mild.

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May the Lord God give you understanding and instruction while reading His wonderful Word.

Num 33:1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, who went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Num 33:2 And Moses wrote their starting points of their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their starting points.
Num 33:3 And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; the next day after the passover the children of Israel went out with boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians.
Num 33:4 For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments.
Num 33:5 And the children of Israel set out from Rameses, and encamped at Succoth.
Num 33:6 And they departed from Succoth, and encamped at Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
Num 33:7 And they set out from Etham, and turned again unto Pihahiroth, which is east of Baalzephon: and they encamped before Migdol.
Num 33:8 And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped at Marah.
Num 33:9 And they set out from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and three score and ten palm trees; and they encamped there.
Num 33:10 And they set out from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.
Num 33:11 And they set out from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
Num 33:12 And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped at Dophkah.
Num 33:13 And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped at Alush.
Num 33:14 And they set out from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
Num 33:15 And they departed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
Num 33:16 And they set out from the desert of Sinai, and encamped at Kibrothhattaavah.
Num 33:17 And they departed from Kibrothhattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.
Num 33:18 And they departed from Hazeroth, and encamped at Rithmah.
Num 33:19 And they departed from Rithmah, and encamped at Rimmonperez.
Num 33:20 And they departed from Rimmonperez, and encamped at Libnah.
Num 33:21 And they set out from Libnah, and encamped at Rissah.
Num 33:22 And they journeyed from Rissah, and encamped at Kehelathah.
Num 33:23 And they went from Kehelathah, and encamped at mount Shepher.
Num 33:24 And they set out from mount Shepher, and encamped at Haradah.
Num 33:25 And they set out from Haradah, and encamped at Makheloth.
Num 33:26 And they set out from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.
Num 33:27 And they departed from Tahath, and encamped at Terah.
Num 33:28 And they set out from Terah, and encamped at Mithkah.
Num 33:29 And they went from Mithkah, and encamped at Hashmonah.
Num 33:30 And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth.
Num 33:31 And they departed from Moseroth, and encamped at Benejaakan.
Num 33:32 And they set out from Benejaakan, and encamped at Horhaggidgad.
Num 33:33 And they went from Horhaggidgad, and encamped at Jotbathah.
Num 33:34 And they set out from Jotbathah, and encamped at Abronah.
Num 33:35 And they departed from Abronah, and encamped at Eziongeber.
Num 33:36 And they set out from Eziongeber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
Num 33:37 And they set out from Kadesh, and encamped at mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
Num 33:38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
Num 33:39 And Aaron was a hundred and twenty and three years old when he died on mount Hor.
Num 33:40 And king of Arad, the Canaanite, who dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
Num 33:41 And they departed from mount Hor, and encamped at Zalmonah.
Num 33:42 And they departed from Zalmonah, and encamped at Punon.
Num 33:43 And they departed from Punon, and encamped at Oboth.
Num 33:44 And they departed from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, at the border of Moab.
Num 33:45 And they departed from Iyim, and encamped at Dibongad.
Num 33:46 And they set out from Dibongad, and encamped at Almondiblathaim.
Num 33:47 And they set out from Almondiblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
Num 33:48 And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho.
Num 33:49 And they encamped by the Jordan, from Bethjeshimoth even unto Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.
Num 33:50 And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho, saying,
Num 33:51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When you have passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
Num 33:52 Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their engraved stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:
Num 33:53 And you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
Num 33:54 And you shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falls; according to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.
Num 33:55 But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those whom you let remain of them shall be barbs in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall trouble you in the land wherein you dwell.
Num 33:56 Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.

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