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These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron. See also: Psalms 77:20 Micah 6:4 Joshua 24:5Moses wrote the starting points of their journeys by the commandment of the LORD. These are their journeys according to their starting points. See also: Numbers 9:17-23 Numbers 10:13 Deuteronomy 1:2They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover, the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians, See also: Exodus 14:8 Exodus 12:37 Exodus 13:4while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck among them. The LORD also executed judgments on their gods. See also: Exodus 12:12 Zephaniah 2:11 Isaiah 19:1The children of Israel traveled from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth. See also: Exodus 12:37They traveled from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. See also: Exodus 13:20They traveled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal Zephon, and they encamped before Migdol. See also: Exodus 14:2 Exodus 14:9 Numbers 33:8They traveled from before Hahiroth, and crossed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness. They went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah. See also: Exodus 15:22-26 Exodus 14:21-31They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim. In Elim, there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there. See also: Exodus 15:27They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea. See also: Exodus 16:1 Exodus 17:1They traveled from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin. See also: Exodus 16:1They traveled from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah. They traveled from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush. They traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink. See also: Exodus 17:1-8 Exodus 19:2They traveled from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai. See also: Exodus 19:1-2 Exodus 16:1They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth Hattaavah. See also: Numbers 11:34 Numbers 10:33 Deuteronomy 1:6They traveled from Kibroth Hattaavah, and encamped in Hazeroth. See also: Numbers 11:35They traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah. See also: Numbers 12:16They traveled from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon Perez. They traveled from Rimmon Perez, and encamped in Libnah. They traveled from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah. See also: Deuteronomy 1:1They traveled from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah. They traveled from Kehelathah, and encamped in Mount Shepher. They traveled from Mount Shepher, and encamped in Haradah. They traveled from Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth. They traveled from Makheloth, and encamped in Tahath. They traveled from Tahath, and encamped in Terah. They traveled from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah. They traveled from Mithkah, and encamped in Hashmonah. They traveled from Hashmonah, and encamped in Moseroth. See also: Deuteronomy 10:5-6They traveled from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene Jaakan. See also: Deuteronomy 10:6 Genesis 36:27 1 Chronicles 1:43They traveled from Bene Jaakan, and encamped in Hor Haggidgad. See also: Deuteronomy 10:7They traveled from Hor Haggidgad, and encamped in Jotbathah. See also: Deuteronomy 10:7They traveled from Jotbathah, and encamped in Abronah. They traveled from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion Geber. See also: Deuteronomy 2:8 1 Kings 22:48 1 Kings 9:26They traveled from Ezion Geber, and encamped at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin. See also: Numbers 20:1 Numbers 27:14 Numbers 13:21They traveled from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom. See also: Numbers 21:4 Numbers 20:22-23 Numbers 20:16Aaron 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 had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month. See also: Deuteronomy 10:6 Deuteronomy 32:50 Numbers 20:24-28Aaron was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died in Mount Hor. The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. See also: Numbers 21:1-9They traveled from Mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah. See also: Numbers 21:4They traveled from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon. They traveled from Punon, and encamped in Oboth. See also: Numbers 21:10They traveled from Oboth, and encamped in Iye Abarim, in the border of Moab. See also: Numbers 21:11They traveled from Iyim, and encamped in Dibon Gad. They traveled from Dibon Gad, and encamped in Almon Diblathaim. See also: Jeremiah 48:22 Jeremiah 48:18 Ezekiel 6:14They traveled from Almon Diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. See also: Deuteronomy 32:49 Deuteronomy 34:1 Numbers 27:12They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. See also: Numbers 22:1They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab. See also: Joshua 13:20 Ezekiel 25:9 Joshua 2:1The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, See also: Numbers 33:48-49Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, “When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, See also: Joshua 3:17 Deuteronomy 9:1 Deuteronomy 7:1then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places. See also: Exodus 23:24 Leviticus 26:1 Deuteronomy 20:16-18You shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given the land to you to possess it. See also: Deuteronomy 11:31 Daniel 4:32 Joshua 21:43You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the larger groups you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers. See also: Numbers 26:53-56 Joshua 15:1-12 Joshua 18:11“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be like pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will harass you in the land in which you dwell. See also: Judges 2:3 Psalms 106:34-36 Joshua 23:12-13It shall happen that as I thought to do to them, so I will do to you.” See also: Deuteronomy 28:63 Leviticus 18:28 Joshua 23:15-16

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)30 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Numbers 33:1

Ver. 1. The mansions. These mansions, or journeys of the children of Israel from Egypt to the land of promise, were figures, according to the Fathers, of the steps and degrees by which Christians, leaving sin, are to advance from virtue to virtue, till they come to the heavenly mansions, after this life, to see and enjoy God. Ch. --- Conduct. Lit. "hand." Aaron died before they came to the last of these 42 stations, or encampments. H. --- The observance of the law, and the true worship of God, can alone insure us eternal happiness, and enable us to sing Holy, &c. S.

Jer. ep. ad Fab. W.

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Numbers 33:2

Ver. 2. Which. Heb. "and Moses wrote down their departure and their marches, by the commandment of the Lord; and these are their journeys, according to their going out." These are the places of any note in that wide and dreary desert, near which the Israelites passed. All the encampments are not intended to be specified. The people marched on slowly, and sought for pasturage, with all diligence. The names of these more remarkable places, have been so differently pronounced, that many of them have been greatly confounded; (C.) and interpreters vary so much in their situation, that nothing can be decided with certainty. H.

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Numbers 33:3

Ver. 3. Ramesses, a city of great note, about 60 miles from the Red Sea. Ex. i.

11. C.

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Numbers 33:4

Ver. 4. Gods. Their idols were thrown down. S. Jer. ep. 127. See Ex. xii. 12. M.

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Numbers 33:6

Ver. 6. Soccoth, the second station. H. --- Etham. Sept. "Butham," the Butum of Herodotus, (ii.

75,) situated in a plain.

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Numbers 33:7

Ver. 7. Beelsephon; perhaps the city of Clysma, or Colzan, where the Hebrews crossed the sea.

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Numbers 33:8

Ver. 8. Etham, or Sur. Ex. xv. 22. --- Mara, 60 miles to the south of the Red Sea.

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Numbers 33:9

Ver. 9. Elim. "The wood of palm-trees, five days' journey from Jericho." Strabo.

See Ex. xv.

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Numbers 33:10

Ver. 10. Red Sea. This encampment is not specified before. C. --- It was the seventh in order.

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Numbers 33:11

Ver. 11. Sin. Farther from the promised land than that of Tsin, (C. xx. 1,) or Cades-barne.

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Numbers 33:12

Ver. 12. Daphca. Sept. and Eusebius read, Raphca; (C.) D and R, in Hebrew, are easily confounded. H. --- This encampment is passed over in Exodus, as well as the following at Alus.

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Numbers 33:14

Ver. 14. Raphidim and Sinai. See Ex. xvii. and xix. 1.

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Numbers 33:16

Ver. 16. Lust. After three days' journey, passing by the station of burning. C. x.

33. xi. 3.

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Numbers 33:17

Ver. 17. Haseroth, near Cades-barne, the same as Aserim, ("the unwalled towns" of the Heveans, extending as far as Gaza,) or Asor, called afterwards Esron, on the south of Chanaan. Jos. xi. 10.

Moses does not specify here the memorable encampment at Cades-barne, where the Israelites arrived, after 11 days' march from Horeb. Deut. i. 2. 19. It was not far from Asor, on the frontiers of Idumea, (C.) in the desert of Pharan.

C. xiii. 1.

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Numbers 33:19

Ver. 19. Rethma. The situation of this and the following station, cannot be fixed.

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Numbers 33:21

Ver. 21. Lebna. A strong place besieged by Sennacherib, (4 K. xix. 8,) between Cades and Gaza.

Jos. x. 29. The Hebrews encamped a long while about Mount Seir. Deut. ii. 1.

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Numbers 33:22

Ver. 22. Ressa was in the same neighbourhood. S. Hirarion converted its inhabitants.

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Numbers 33:24

Ver. 24. Arada. Herad, Adar, or Barad, are probably the same place, on the southern limits of Chanaan, four miles from Maceloth, the Malatis of Eusebius.

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Numbers 33:30

Ver. 30. Hesmona, or Asemona, a city of the tribe of Juda, towards Egypt. C.

xxxiv. 4.

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Numbers 33:32

Ver. 32. Gadgad. These three stations are placed in a different order, Deut. x. 6.

But some word has been transposed, as Aaron died on Mount Hor, when the Hebrews encamped at Mosera, or Moseroth, a second time. C.

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Numbers 33:34

Ver. 34. Jetebatha. It may be rendered also "Hills of concupiscence," famous for torrents of water. Deut. x. 7.

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Numbers 33:35

Ver. 35. Asiongaber. Some place this station on the Mediterranean, where Strabo fixes the city of Gassion Gaber, the Beto Gabria of Ptolemy. But the Scripture informs us it lay on the Red Sea. 3 K. ix. 16. Cellarius thinks most probably upon the Elanitic gulph, to the east of that of Suez, or Heroopolis, where Josephus maintains Asiongaber or Bernice stood. The Hebrews came to this station from that of Elat. Deut. ii. 8. C.

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Numbers 33:36

Ver. 36. Sin, or Tsin. Cades is another name of the same desert. Near the city of Cades-barne, the Hebrews encamped a long while, and had plenty of water; but here they murmured for want of it, and Mary departed this life. C. xx. C.

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Numbers 33:37

Ver. 37. Hor, at a place called Mosera. Deut. x. 6. This was the road from Arabia to Chanaan, and the Hebrews attempted to enter by it, but were repulsed by the king of Arad, though they afterwards defeated him at Horma. C. xxi. 3.

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Numbers 33:41

Ver. 41. Salmona, where it is thought by some that God sent the fiery serpents.

C. xxi. 6. The Israelites being refused a passage by the Idumeans and Moabites, God orders them to measure back their steps towards Asiongaber, and to go round their territories. C.

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Numbers 33:45

Ver. 45. Dibongad, is often called Dibon. Moses observes, (C. xxi.) that the Hebrews passed by or encamped at various places, before they came to this town. It is sometimes attributed to Ruben, and at other times to Gad, being on the confines of both tribes. C.

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Numbers 33:49

Ver. 49. Moabites. Here they were deluded by wicked women. C. xxv. H. ---

From these 42

stations, the Fathers take occasion to shew, how we must advance in a spiritual life. D.

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Numbers 33:52

Ver. 52. Pillars. Heb. stones placed on high "to be seen." Sept. "towers of the sentinels." Chal.

"temples, where they adore their idols."

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Numbers 33:53

Ver. 53. Land of its old inhabitants, and of the places dedicated to superstitious purposes. H. ---

Heb. "occupy the land." Sept. "drive out the inhabitants, and dwell there."

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Numbers 33:55

Ver. 55. Nails. Sept. "goads," &c. by which they will force you in a manner to gratify your curiosity, by an imitation of their idol worship; and thus will prove to you more dangerous, than if you had nails piercing your eyes. See Jos. xxiii.

13. Ezec. xxviii. 24. These abandoned nations must not be spared through a false pity. Deut. xx. 16. C. --- The Israelites, however, proved negligent, and God made use of the remains of these nations to scourge his people, and to train them for war. D.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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