The entire Israelite community left the Wilderness of Sin, moving from one place to the next according to the Lord’s command. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
Exodus 19:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised They travelled from Rephidim, came to the Sinai Wilderness, and camped in the wilderness. Israel camped there in front of the mountain. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When they had departed from Rephidim and had come to the Wilderness of Sinai, they encamped there before the mountain. American Standard Version (1901) And when they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mount. Common English Bible They traveled from Rephidim, came into the Sinai desert, and set up camp there. Israel camped there in front of the mountain Catholic Public Domain Version Thus, setting out from Raphidim, and going directly to the desert of Sinai, they encamped in the same place, and there Israel pitched their tents away from the region of the mountain. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For departing out of Raphidim, and coming to the desert of Sinai, they camped in the same place: and there Israel pitched their tents over against the mountain. |
The entire Israelite community left the Wilderness of Sin, moving from one place to the next according to the Lord’s command. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
Moses’s father-in-law, Jethro, along with Moses’s wife and sons, came to him in the wilderness where he was camped at the mountain of God.
Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
He answered, ‘I will certainly be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I am the one who sent you: when you bring the people out of Egypt, you will all worship God at this mountain.’
The Lord spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai, on the first day of the second month of the second year after Israel’s departure from the land of Egypt:
After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.
He is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors. He received living oracles to give to us.
These things are being taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery #– #this is Hagar.