And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
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Interpretation
The provisions of Israel, brought from Egypt, were spent by the middle of the second month, and they murmured. It is no new thing for the greatest kindness to be basely represented as the greatest injuries.
Glossary
- Egypt Place
- The land of the Nile and the pyramids, the oldest kingdom of which we have any record, holds a place of great significance in Scripture. Modern identification: Ain Shams.
- Elim Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Wadi Gharandal.
- Mount Sinai Place
- Biblical mountain. Modern identification: Jebel Musa.
- Sin Place
- Biblical region. Modern identification: Debbet er Ramleh.