King James Version

Numbers 33:10

And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.

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וַיִּסְע֖וּvayisvand cause to blowנָסַעconjunction, verb, qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “and cause to blow”, the next action in the storyH5265properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. start on ajourneycause to blow, bring, get, (make to) go (away, forth, forward, onward, out), (take) journey, march, remove, set aside (forward), [idiom] still, be on his (go their) way.מֵאֵילִ֑םmeeylimfrom Elimאֵילִםpreposition, noun, proper name — “from Elim”H362Elim, a place in the DesertElim.וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּvayachanvand encampחָנָהconjunction, verb, qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “and encamp”, the next action in the storyH2583properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch atent; gen. to encamp (for abode or siege)abide (in tents), camp, dwell, encamp, grow to an end, lie, pitch (tent), rest in tent.עַלalaboveעַלpreposition — “above”H5921above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applicationsabove, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of,…יַםyamseaיָםnoun, common, masculine, singular, construct — “sea”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH3220a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the southsea ([idiom] -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).סֽוּףsufflagסוּףnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “flag”, the ordinary formH5488a reed, especially the papyrusflag, Red (sea), weed. Compare H5489 (סוּף).

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

And they journeyed from Elim, and pitched by the Red Sea.

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American Standard Version (1901)

And they journeyed from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.

Young’s Literal Translation

and they journey from Elim, and encamp by the Red Sea.

World English Bible

They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.

Darby Translation

And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.

Douay-Rheims

But departing from thence also, they pitched their tents by the Red Sea. And departing from the Red Sea,

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

And they journeyed from Elim, and pitched by the Red Sea.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

And they departed from Ælim, and encamped by the Red Sea.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Καὶ ἀπῇραν ἐξ Αἰλὶμ, καὶ παρενέβαλον ἐπὶ θάλασσαν ἐρυθράν.