Bible Strands
Numbers 33:8
They set out from Pi-hahiroth and crossed through the sea, into the wilderness, and they journeyed three days into the Wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Israelites depart from Pi-hahiroth after camping near Migdol, initiating a desert march that moves them away from the coastal plain. The words — וַ/יַּֽעַבְרוּ (va/i.ya.'av.Ru) means "and they passed," paired with בְ/תוֹךְ (ve./tokh) to indicate movement "in the middle of" the sea (הַ/יָּם, hai./Yam). The thread — The text's sequence of departure, sea crossing, and three-day desert travel mirrors the events of Exodus 14:21 and Exodus 15:22. Why it lands — It requires the reader to track the precise geography of the exodus route and recognize the narrative continuity between the sea crossing and the subsequent wilderness provisions.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And they departed from before Pi–hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.
Cross-references
- Exodus 14:21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,
- Exodus 15:22 Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they walked in the desert without finding water.